Celebrating 41 years: The Knoxville Nativity Pageant
Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009Every year during the second week in December, city crews prepare for Knoxville's biggest holiday event, the annual Nativity Pageant, by dismantling the professional ice hockey rink at the Civic Coliseum and replacing it with the little town of Bethlehem. Continue »
Dec. 11 marked the 50th anniversary of lawsuit that ended segregated schools in Knoxville
Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009"With all deliberate speed" is a phrase associated with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding desegregation of public schools. Continue »
Knoxville is one of few cities that saved and restored their S&W Cafeterias
Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009The new S&W Grand at 516 South Gay Street provides a glimpse of an earlier era. The original glazed terra cotta art deco facade of the building, the only one of its kind in Knoxville, beckons alluringly, undeniably authentic and redolent of another time. Continue »

