by design | Jun 2, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Anniversaries for National Trails Day and Tennessee State Parks Tennessee State Parks will celebrate National Trails Day on Saturday, June 4 with free guided hikes at all 56 state parks. The events come as National Trails Day celebrates its 30th anniversary and...
by design | Jun 1, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Visit Knoxville is pleased to announce the return of Bike Boat Brew & Bark to take place June 4, 2022 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Knoxville Adventure Collective (900 Volunteer Landing). Bike Boat Brew & Bark celebrates the outdoor adventurer, the dog lover,...
by design | May 31, 2022 | The Daily Focus
By Steve Williams On the ride back to Knoxville, Dewayne Morris felt like he was on cloud nine. Earlier that day, in the last individual race of his prep career, he became a state champion. The Austin-East senior took first place in the 800-meter run in the TSSAA...
by design | May 31, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly The story came out of left field in late 2010 and early 2011. A man claimed to have poisoned two 130-year-old live oaks at “Toomer’s Corner” near the campus of Auburn University, to the point of coming clean on the “Paul Finebaum Show.” It was...
by design | May 31, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
For tho’ from out our Time and Place, The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face, When I have crost the bar. —Alfred Lord Tennyson By Dr. Jim Ferguson You may find it strange, but I begin this Memorial Day essay reflecting on poetry, especially...
by design | May 31, 2022 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely East Tennessee is rich with large attractions known nationwide yet there are some almost hidden places that draw local citizens looking to have an unofficial outing and family fun. Most of these places are fairly unknown outside the local rural...
by design | May 31, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major The details are horrible; the images, heart-wrenching. How could this senseless tragedy happen again in our great land? It is difficult to understand the evil that snuffed out 19 young lives and two teachers in an elementary school. This despicable...
by design | May 31, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector It had been a while since I’d ventured to the Bijou Theater, and Amy had never been there since we moved back to Knoxville from Cookeville in 1974. The other night, we made a go of it and attended a concert at the theater, and good Lord, it was a...
by design | May 31, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Many people see being an attorney as a very solemn and serious profession. People have seen Law & Order and those lawyers on there are rarely smiling, not to mention that ominous music playing in the background. No question, lawyers handle...
by design | May 31, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices. This means that much of the conversation about the cause of the current inflation is confusing at best and essentially wrong. The administration has...
