
DD-214 Veteran Story: Edward Joseph Boling
Edward Joseph Boling was born to Samuel Riley Boling and Nerissa Clark Boling on February 19, 1922, in Sevier County. By 1930, his family moved to Knoxville, and as a high schooler, he worked as an usher at a local theater.

DD-214 Veteran Story: Evelyn Darst Belmont
Evelyn Darst was born to Guy Darst and Blanche Allison Darst on April 22, 1919, in Knoxville. She graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1940, where she was the first woman editor of the Tennessee Volunteer, the school’s yearbook.

DD-214 Veteran Story: Marvin Gerald Krieger
Marvin Gerald Krieger was born to Abraham and Pauline Krieger on July 31, 1920, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Abraham moved the family to Knoxville when he joined the Tennessee Valley Authority as a civil engineer.

DD-214 Veteran Story: Aubrey Lee Totten
Aubrey Lee Totten was born to Riley Totten and Anna Scales Totten on December 5, 1906, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Aubrey moved to Knoxville sometime in the 1930s. On September 11, 1940, he married Knoxville-native Annetha Vineyard.
Adolph Ochs and the First Presbyterian Haunting

They Sang What They Lived: Carl and Pearl Butler

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.

Theodore Baehr, Jr. retires after 46 years at the McClung Historical Collection
Theodore Baehr, Jr. retired from the Knox County Public Library’s Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection in the East Tennessee History Center on May 1st.

Erskine-Williams photo album
The Erskine-Williams photograph album of unidentified Black portraiture at the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection contains more than 30 portraits, mostly cabinet cards of well-dressed men and women, as well as a few tintypes and cartes de-visite.
Rock A While–Robert M. "Bob" Adams (1940-2023) of The Fabulous Six
When longtime local banker and early rock 'n' roll bandsman Bob Adams passed away on January 3, 2023, a piece of Knoxville’s music history went with him.

Zygmunt J. B. Plater Papers (MSC 1022)
The McClung Historical Collection is happy to make available the newly processed Zygmunt J. B. Plater Papers.

The Walther Barth Film Collection at KCPL-TAMIS

New Digital Collection featuring the Appalachian Expositions
An ongoing project at the Calvin M. McClung Collection recently led to the discovery of the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Appalachian Exposition supplements.

Knoxville Gospel Quartet Preserved on Rare Record

In Search of Fort Sanders
In memory of Dr. Charles H. "Charlie" Faulkner, October 16, 1937–July 21, 2022