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Prior to his service as a Seabee during the Second World War, my uncle Jay was quite the prankster. I’ve oft envisioned him scouring the family farm fields on the Jefferson/Hamblen county line, glass jar in hand, filling it with any…
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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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Knoxville has a lot of culture to be proud of, and this May is the perfect time to celebrate one facet of that culture – East Tennessee’s Asian-American community. Many will be familiar with the local Knox Asian Festival, which first…
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We're off to the Andes! I was sick with flu-like symptoms for a week after paying $200 for a yellow fever shot. Other team members just had vivid dreams for a month. But that was not my biggest worry as we crossed the 24 hour threshold…
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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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Music for everyone - that is the heart of Knoxville’s Joy of Music school. Its mission is “to provide quality music education for financially disadvantaged, at-risk youth”, a goal it has passionately pursued for more than 20 years. Sitting…
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New Hope Children's Advocacy Center Celebrates a Milestone Anniversary It’s not often you meet someone who wishes to work themselves out of a job, but that is the wish of many who work at Blount County’s New Hope Children’s Advocacy…
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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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