by design | Sep 15, 2024 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
Newcomer says Smokies’ move to Old City ‘sounds like fun’ By Steve Williams A lot can happen in 25 years. Good and bad. Funny and sad. The Smokies’ baseball move back to Knoxville next spring will be bittersweet; a treat for Knoxvillians, but a bummer for some of the...
by design | Sep 9, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
Ayres Hall, old scoreboard dominated north end of Shields-Watkins Field By Tom Mattingly Stories about Tennessee football come in all shapes and sizes and from a number of perspectives. This one came from a son wanting to honor his family’s influence on Tennessee...
by design | Sep 9, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Banned but not forgotten By Joe Rector The other night, Amy and I sat down to watch a movie. We chose an old, black-and-white version of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It was the one where Gregory Peck played the wise Atticus and had a voice that sounded like God when he...
by design | Sep 9, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
Positive Law Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. John Adams By Dr. Jim Ferguson Americans take things for granted; it’s human nature. I’ll switch to the personal pronoun and say I expect to wake up every morning and everything will still...
by design | Sep 9, 2024 | Columnist, Steely
Visiting Old Fort Marr in Benton A Day Away By Mike Steely Many of our region’s historical structures are not where they originally stood. Many, like Fort South West Point in Kingston, were reconstructed where the fort once stood and others, like Fort White in...
by design | Sep 9, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Reason Cecil’s Grocery, Part 1 By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series that was originally published in the September 26, 2016, issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Almost two years ago my wife...
