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Community School of the Arts celebrates creativity with kids When Jamison Stalsworth was about 10 years old, he began hanging around the Community School of the Arts. His older sister participated in an art class there, and Stalsworth…
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How a vacation led to a new mission for KSO musician Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2007 rewarded Gary Sperl with a brand new passion in life. The principal clarinetist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Sperl visited Tanzania…
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A small town amid mountain vistas The Sevier County side of the Smokies can have the outlet malls, the fudge shops, the waterslides, and the mini golf courses. On the other side of the Smokies, in Highlands, NC, the emphasis is on…
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The Knoxville Museum of Art is closed for a six week period as it prepares for an expanded version of “Higher Ground: A Center of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee”. The museum’s flagship permanent exhibit, “Higher Ground” showcases pieces…
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Hometown Heroes:Why Knoxville teacher Ernie Roberts spends so much time volunteering Ernie Roberts’s list of community involvement reads like a roster of Knoxville’s nonprofits: He’s taken Key Club members from Bearden High School to…
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Native species help restore habitats and support the life that relies on them The pawpaws growing in Avi Askey’s yard help to feed the family in the house. And the Zebra Swallowtail butterfly, Tennessee’s state butterfly, relies on it…
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Lil Clinard delights in exploring through art If Lil Clinard faces a new challenge, get out of the way. She’ll jump in with both feet. Though she spent her career in technology, her retirement has been absorbed in art. “The advice…
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Shannon Herron, Dogwood Arts’ marketing and creative director, has put together a lot of music events, but he says his favorite festival memory came from last year’s Southern Skies Music Festival. “Our headliner had to cancel last…
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George shows his strut. George Washington struts around us, vibrating with machismo the entire time Lisa Wyatt shows me around her animal farm. She has 15 breeds of chickens.Five breeds of ducks.Four Sebastopol geese, an endangered…
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Trees Knoxville, a nonprofit devoted to expanding the urban canopy of trees throughout Knox County, is inviting residents to help develop a master plan for incorporating trees throughout the city over the next 20 years. The plan will help…
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