Chili Festival, World’s Fair Park, Knoxville Here’s an example of how much is happening downtown all the time: I love chili. Who doesn’t? Sure it may lead to a little gastronomic discomfort, but it’s worth it,...

Church Street U.M.C. Bell Tower, Henley Street, Knoxville Here are more pictures from that same afternoon, but up the bluff and into the city. One of the great things about living downtown is that when those...

 Henley Street Bridge, Knoxville, November 2010  As often happens with the ending of a month, I look back at some images that never quite found a story and pass them along for your pleasure....

Entrance to the Fantasy of Trees – Convention Center, Knoxville I’m seeing both of the these titles thrown around for our seasonal celebration. I think the “Regal Festival of Lights” is just the lighting of the tree...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I know it hauls a lot of emotional freight that it can’t always carry,but at least it tries in the right way. It hasn’t been successfully commercialized to the extent of...

Sunsphere, Knoxville, Tennessee I had visitors recently and we logged a number of miles walking around downtown. The two iconic sculptures that captured their attention were the Sunsphere, which reminded them of a large microphone and the basketball...

Michael Knight speaks to the Knoxville Writer’s Guild. At the November meeting of the Knoxville Writer’s Guild, local favorite and nationally known author Michael Knight read from his book The Typist and talked about its genesis....

I generally try to pass on some of what I notice on First Friday and this month I bypassed that and went directly into the heavy series of posts about panhandling, so I’ve decided to loop...

March for Sanity, Market Square, Knoxville, Tennessee I’d be remiss if I didn’t throw in a plug for Sanity. On a recent, beautiful, autumn afternoon a small contingent of Knoxvillians made their plea for sanity in...

Construction Site, Downtown Montgomery, Alabama During my recent trip to Montgomery I came across a construction site that added a dimension to preservation and development that I could never have imagined. Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA)...