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Tennessee legend Davy Crockett lived a full life before fighting and dying at the Alamo in Texas
In the 1950s, a young medium called television introduced baby boomers to Tennessee Frontiersman Davy Crockett through a Walt Disney series starring Fess Parker. Crockett, who famously died at the Alamo during the Texas Revolution, was born 240 years ago in Limestone, Tennessee, in Greene County. His family later moved to the Morristown area where his father, John Crockett, ran a tavern.
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Rare WWII B-29 Bomber Doc Touches Down in Knoxville for Four Days
A piece of World War II history touched down at McGhee Tyson Airport on Wednesday, as the B-29 Superfortress known as Doc rolled onto the tarmac for a four-day visit that lets Knoxville-area residents walk through a bomber that almost no longer exists. Doc is one of just two B-29s from the era still capable of flight, and its stop in East Tennessee runs through Sunday.
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5 Best Restaurants in Knoxville, Tennessee You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them
Knoxville, Tennessee — a city where the Tennessee River bends through the heart of downtown, where the Smokies rise blue on the horizon, and where every street hums with the laughter of students, the wisdom of old-timers, and the dreams of newcomers drawn by the promise of something soulful. Here, red-brick warehouses lean into the future, murals bloom on stucco, and the scent of barbecue and biscuits drifts through neighborhoods stitched together by memory and hope.
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Knoxville man left with 28-foot-long crack after concrete truck arrives late
A Knoxville man says concrete that was poured to create a foundation for a new garage, cracked soon after it was poured. He said two pours of concrete were needed to form the floor of his garage. The pours were supposed to be made within minutes of each other; however, one of the concrete trucks was late in arriving, but the concrete mixing company denies it.
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Jerri Green is what the suffragettes dreamed of | Opinion
Market Street in Knoxville is unique with statues celebrating women's suffrage. Men didn't want women voting - much less in politics. Many men identify with politicians who are aggressive, loud-speaking jerks. Most women don't identify with jerks and tend to vote for kinder and more intelligent candidates - and women have changed politics. The Republican Party hasn't caught up with women. Republicans tend to choose puffed up little men as their leaders. Newt Gingrich shut down the country because President Clinton didn't invite him back for a chat on an airplane trip. Donald Trump wouldn't allow a ship holding 21 COVID patients into the United States because they would have increased “my number” of COVID patients (we ended up killing 1,200,000). Cameron Sexton wanted to be House speaker. Gloria Johnson alone voted against him and the puffed up little man exposed himself by assigning her to a tiny office . And gerrymandered Gloria's district; look up the maps. Our current senator will be tough on “big tech." She doesn't advertise how she changed the law to allow "big pharma" to flood the country with opioids (we ended up killing 500,000 ). It was “unintended” but forewarned! But “big pharma” donated