by Mike Steely | Mar 1, 2015 | Archives, Steely
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com More than 80 information booths, 32 workshops, door prizes, and all for free — sounds like a large event, doesn’t it? It certainly is and it’s promoted as “The neighborhood event of the year.” The annual Neighborhood...
by Ray Hill | Mar 1, 2015 | Archives, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Before the age of television, blue shirts and blow-dried hair, Tennessee had some of the most colorful political figures anywhere. Amongst those was Malcolm Rice Patterson, a Congressman and governor of Tennessee. A veteran of some of the most hard fought...
by Steve Williams | Feb 22, 2015 | Archives, Williams
By Steve Williams Thousands of University of Tennessee football fans are happy that Kahlil McKenzie signed with the Volunteers, but “Granddaddy” is probably the happiest. Sam McKenzie Jr. is Kahlil’s grandfather and lives in East Knoxville, probably about 10 minutes...
by Mike Steely | Feb 22, 2015 | Archives, Steely
By Mike Steely Steelym@knoxfocus.com Here and there around our county are places where you’ll find curious things, places and some things that simply are interesting and odd. You can travel from one end to the other, north, south, east and west and run across places...
by Ray Hill | Feb 22, 2015 | Archives, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Hill McAlister very much wanted to be governor of Tennessee and made repeated efforts before finally achieving his goal. Once in office, McAlister found it bit tougher than he likely expected. McAlister was born in Nashville on July 15, 1875 and...
by Mike Steely | Feb 22, 2015 | Archives, Steely
By Mike Steely Steelym@knoxfocus.com “We cut fresh meat daily,” said John Maxwell, General Manager of Chicken City on North Central in Knoxville. You’ve seen Chicken City, located at 2518 North Central, but if you haven’t been inside you’re missing something special....
