The UT first football film ever shown!
Calling all Vol fans!
Halloween is the season for getting creative!
Plotting Pumpkins Decorating Contest
Cat in the Hat and Pete the Cat look purr-fect as pumpkin heads! Halloween is the season for creativity, so turn a pumpkin into your favorite hero or villain from a beloved book, movie, show, or game.
Children's Festival of Reading launches a summer of reading and learning
The 19th Children’s Festival of Reading was held on Saturday, May 17 at World’s Fair Park.
Plan your day!
May 17 is just around the corner. It's nearly time for the award-winning Children's Festival of Reading! With four stages and 50+ tents, you'll need a plan.
Batter UP! It's baseball time in Tennessee!
Nothing says spring like the crack of the bat. Here in East Tennessee, this spring is all about baseball. In anticipation of the opening of the ballpark, we are celebrating the national pastime with an exhibition and some programs. Plus, we have some suggested reading for your bedside table!
The Gay Street Fire of 1826-1827
New Year 1827 rang in not only with a bang, but also with a towering wave of fire whose terror and devastation were burned into the memory of almost everyone who lived through it.
A Holiday Season in Knoxville Two Hundred Years Ago
One hundred years ago, people were curious about Christmases of the past, too. By the 1920s, Isabella Cowan Rhea (1849-1935) had lived in downtown Knoxville for three quarters of a century, and her family had been in downtown since frontier times.
The Read City Explorer Pass takes to the stage.
The curtain is coming up on several theatre productions in our area, and Knox County Public Library is excited to help provide access to some of them through the Read City Explorer Pass program.
Both dragons and readers took flight this summer at the library
We tried something different this year, and it was clearly an epic hit.
Edward and Nannie Kline
Read City Adventure Begins
With 500+ kids screaming at the top of their lungs, you’d think the Beatles were in the house—or Taylor Swift. The enthusiasm was real, but the star of the show was books and reading.
Tax preparation
Rare Screening of The Signal Tower (1924) with live score by Roger Miller of Anvil Orchestra
When the Clarence Brown Film Festival takes place this fall, audiences will have the rare chance to see one of Brown's most renowned silent films, which had ostensibly gone missing for over 50 years.
What about Jane?
Knoxville likes to flaunt her literary giants -- and rightly so. After all, what other town our size can claim a significant handful of Pulitzer Prize- winning writers and an Oscar nod or two? We do have a lot to gloat about.
