Meet Me at the AJ: A behind-the-scenes sneak peek at the iconic building
Tips for recovering photographs and heirlooms from a flood
Like everyone, we are heartbroken over the destruction from Hurricane Helene. The loss of life is devastating, and the loss of property is difficult.
Lovell’s Turkish Bathhouses and Massage Parlors, Knoxville’s Watering Place
“Beginning in the middle of the 19th century, the leisure class grew infatuated with a particular type of healthy getaway: the water cure. By the 1850s, a constellation of spa villages had emerged across 20 states.
Claudia Elizabeth Hayward Fired by Knoxville's School System for Getting Married
December 26, 1937, was among the happiest days of 23-year old Claudia Elizabeth Brooks’s life. Dressed in a brown tweed suit, draped in a fur coat, she walked down the aisle at Knoxville’s Second Presbyterian Church to marry her college sweetheart, James Woodruff Hayward.
Edward and Nannie Kline
Jesse and Susan Hinton
“…I knew him [Jesse] well as he was great friends with my husband [James Greenway]. He said he had a wife and some children back in Carolina and he intended, if he ever could, to go back to them. He wouldn’t pay attention to any other woman though he was a good-looking young fellow, a
Stella DeVault’s gingerbread and Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cookbook
This year, recipe books and cards in the McClung Collection’s annual holiday cooking display feature Stella DeVault and Malinda Russell, local bakers who honed their culinary skills and business acumen during the days before the Civil War.
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.