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Divas!

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A Tour of Irish Town

1:09:28

We Should Have Been There Legendary Black Concerts in Knoxvlle

50:07

The Best of Knoxville Shoebox!

1:21:29

Startling Situations - Knoxville at Christmastime, 1923

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Smokies Symposium Preview

appetizer for our three-day event at the end of July about Knoxville’s dynamic and decisive role in the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While we prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of when the Smokies park movement started, it appeared that GSMNP’s 90th anniversary (the date it was officially considered established) last week was largely ignored. Perhaps there is some logic to that when you consider there could be several points on the park’s timeline when the 100th could be reasonably claimed.

Відео

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2024 Sandy McNabb Tribute

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2024 Sandy McNabb Tribute

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Divas!

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We conducted a live-audience slide show about what we’ve learned about standout local appearances by notable female performers, from Lillie Langtry to Sarah Bernhardt, from Ethel Barrymore to Marian Anderson, from Sophie Tucker to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, from Fanny Brice to Helen Hayes, from Ida Cox to Janis Joplin, with some Dolly and Taylor Swift thrown in for fun, using recently discovered ad...

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A Tour of Irish Town

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This show is about old Irish Town, the all-but-vanished immigrant section of Knoxville. We’ll describe exactly what (and when) Irish Town was and show the one building that may have survived-as we also talk about several notable Irish immigrants, like the three first Catholic mayors of Knoxville, and the retired saloonkeeper who spearheaded the construction of St. Mary’s Hospital, the first Cat...

We Should Have Been There Legendary Black Concerts in Knoxvlle

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We Should Have Been There Legendary Black Concerts in Knoxvlle

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In honor of Black History Month, our Third Thursday Zoom will offer a review of the best African American musical performances you may never have heard about, from the 1920s to the 1960s, with images of several internationally significant performers who appeared here, in many cases before they were famous, as well as rarely seen advertisements for their Knoxville shows. Even as they were exclud...

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The Best of Knoxville Shoebox!

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For the last few years, you may have noticed, we’ve been appealing to the public to help fill out Knoxville’s visual history with photographs, even random snapshots, that show the city in different eras. Although there are extensive photographic archives available through libraries and other institutions, it’s often surprising what historical researchers don’t have any pictures of-including man...

Startling Situations - Knoxville at Christmastime, 1923

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Startling Situations - Knoxville at Christmastime, 1923

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Startling Situations - Knoxville at Christmastime, 1923

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A Knoxville Thanksgiving

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A Knoxville Thanksgiving

1:37:21

The Birth of a National Park

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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park didn't formally open to the public until the 1930s, but it began as an idea in 1923-and not in Washington, D.C., but in downtown Knoxville. It was a giant project, involving family homes and industrial sites, first conceived at a grass-roots level. It took years of work by lawyers, financiers, politicians, artists and intrepid hikers to make it a reality....

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Black in Appalachia

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Join us as our guest, filmmaker-historian William Isom, of Black in Appalachia, talks about his organization and his latest projects. Black in Appalachia is a non-profit that works in collaboration with public media, residents, university departments, libraries, archives and community organizations to highlight the history and contributions of African-Americans in the development of the Mountai...

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Clarence Brown and Knoxville

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As part of Knox County Public Library’s Clarence Brown Film Festival we hosted this month's Zoom live from Central Cinema. Jack talks about Clarence Brown’s childhood growing up in Knoxville, his time at Knoxville High School, and his years at the University of Tennessee where he earned two degrees.

Cormac McCarthy at 90 with Bill Hardwig and Wes Morgan

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Cormac McCarthy at 90 with Bill Hardwig and Wes Morgan

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Description The Knoxville-raised author of Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Orchard Keeper, No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Passenger died last month, just a few weeks before he would have turned 90 on July 20, the date of our monthly program. Like few men his age, he was still very much in the news, with not one but two new novels out, both eliciting international interest, as well as ru...

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Fountain City Tour

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Ft. Sanders Tour

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We’re looking at Knoxville’s most famous neighborhood, Fort Sanders, which is the subject of our upcoming online walking tour. One of Knoxville’s most creative and storied neighborhoods, Fort Sanders became famous for a bloody 20-minute battle in 1863, but is now more often in the news for a decades-long battle to preserve its heritage from educational, medical, and commercial encroachments. Be...

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Satan is Busy in Knoxville

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Find out how Satan was up to in our hometown back in 1930 on our free public Zoom next week. Our guest is Ted Olson, well-known music scholar-for his recent work about Doc Watson, he was nominated for two 2023 Grammy Awards!-who recently produced Satan Is Busy in Knoxville, a CD that highlights the best of the Knoxville Sessions, the big comprehensive box set from Bear Family Records of the fas...