by Steve Williams | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Baseball was once considered America’s national pastime. But it lost that distinction to the popularity of football many years ago. Instead of remaining the great game it was, it has lost much, much more over the years because of some players’...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It is among Knoxville’s historic treasures linking the past with the present. I first learned about Blount Mansion as a fifth grader. Our teacher was a social studies major, and she made sure to schedule a field trip for our class to visit Blount...
by design | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore The cherry tree myth is the most well-known and longest enduring legend about George Washington. In the original story, when George was six years old, he received a hatchet as a gift and damaged his father’s cherry tree. When his father discovered what...
by Joe Rector | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I hope that everyone has survived another soggy February. It was only a year ago that the rains inundated the area and left us struggling to dodge standing water puddles and pray that roof leaks didn’t suddenly appear. I, for one, have never done...
by Ray Hill | Feb 23, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Governor Andrew Johnson easily overcame the powerful opposition of the Whig Party in Tennessee, as well as the more conservative elements in his own Democratic Party to win election to the United States Senate in 1857. Nor was Andrew Johnson satisfied to...
by design | Feb 17, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “Ya know what makes me sick? You know what makes me so angry, ah could tease a fat man with a Twinkie?” Some of you may remember the banter of Earl Pitts, Uhmerikun, the fictional radio personality, whose outlandish “editorials” were introduced...
