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New Exhibitions Open at The Emporium on November 6
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present four new exhibitions at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville opening on Friday, November 6, from 5:00-9:00 PM. A free gathering with the exhibiting artists will also feature live music by Kaylie King. Masks and Reveals by Ken McMahon in the...
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Volunteers to Plant Trees Along New SoKno Rail Trail & Art Walk
Volunteers, local businesses, and community organizers will gather on Thursday, October 22, at 9:00 AM to plant 37 new trees along the forthcoming SoKno Rail Trail & Art Walk. Hosted in partnership with Trees Knoxville, Legacy Parks Foundation, The Mortgage Gallery, and Realty Executives South, the volunteer tree-planting event marks a major community milestone in beautifying South Knoxville’s vibrant new linear park and trail system.
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WATE team wishes Lori Tucker congratulations on her retirement
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Oneida & Western Railroad: Map, History, Timetable
The Oneida & Western Railroad was a Tennessee short line from the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific at Oneida west across the Big South Fork of the Cumberland and up onto the plateau at Jamestown. The company began as the Jamestown Railroad, incorporated on October 29, 1912. On August 5, 1913, the charter was amended, the name became the Oneida and Western, and the route was aimed from Oneida toward Albany, Kentucky. Construction started at Oneida on November 4, 1913. The track reached East Jamestown, 30 miles, in 1921, and Jamestown on December 10, 1930.
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PHOTOS: Lori Tucker through the years at WATE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — After reporting news for the East Tennessee region for more than 3 decades, 6 News Anchor Lori Tucker is retiring. Here’s a look back at some of her reporting throughout the years. Tucker began working at WATE in June 1993, after moving to Knoxville with her husband and two daughters from […]
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DREAMS brings magic of Fleetwood Mac to Knoxville
The Hardin Valley Event Center welcomes DREAMS: A Fleetwood Mac Experience on Sept. 27 to perform a lineup of the band’s most famous tracks. The set celebrated Fleetwood Mac’s musical legacy, bringing the legendary sound to Knoxville’s backyard. DREAMS began in 2025 with the goal of sharing...
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Transfer portal update: Top-performing outgoing Tennessee football transfers
The transfer portal plays a huge role in the talent of Tennessee football’s roster every season. It’s especially been the case with defensive lineman Xavier Gillman, linebacker Amare Campbell and safety Dejuan Lane, who all followed defensive coordinator Jim Knowles from Penn State and are making huge impacts on the strength of the Vols’ defensive unit.
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Paul Garrison, a Farragut man who played drums on 'Pretty Woman,' has died
Paul Garrison, who drummed for Roy Orbison and more recently with the Knoxville-based Concord Brass Quintet, has died. He was 87. Garrison, who lived in Farragut, played drums on the song "Oh, Pretty Woman" for Orbison's 1964 album "Oh! Pretty Woman," and on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964. The song was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks straight that year, according to Stereogum. His wife, Phylis Garrison, was an airline stewardess with Pan Am at the time and told Knox News she can still remember hearing "Oh, Pretty Woman" come on the radio while she was in Brazil at Corcovado, the mountain where the Christ the Redeemer statue stands. The song was everywhere. Paul Garrison ultimately went to England with Orbison three times, touring with the Beatles, Freddie and the Dreamers, Brian Poole & the Tremeloes and the Searchers, according to his Concord Brass biography . Ringo Starr even exchanged drumsticks with Garrison, a gesture indicating a drummer's appreciation and respect. Garrison met the Beatles again in Miami, Florida. He toured in Australia with Orbison and the Beach Boys, and they even taught him to surf, Phylis Garrison said. Garrison was born in Cookeville and
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Elderly Theater Worker Surprised by $146,000 for Her Retirement Crowdfunded by Young Moviegoer
It’s becoming something of a trend: young people encountering elders working long past retirement age and raising thousands for them to finally take a rest. GNN has covered such stories on multiple occasions, and now another instance comes from Maryville, Tennessee, where an elderly theater worker was surprised with $146,000.
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Over In Rogersville, Hale Springs Inn Serves Supper Where Andrew Jackson Once Slept
Some hotels hand over a key card and a map to the ice machine. Others hand over two hundred years of stories. On the main street of Rogersville, Tennessee, a redbrick building has been welcoming overnight guests since 1824, back when travelers arrived by horse and carriage instead of by car. A seventh president is said to be among its famous early guests, and today the same address serves supper in a dining room with a fireplace.
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Inside Dolly Parton’s SongTeller Hotel and Life of Many Colors Museum: ‘It Was Her Dream’
The day after graduating from Sevier County High School in 1964, Dolly Parton packed her bags and followed her dreams to Nashville. Before long, she skyrocketed to country music superstardom. But despite an incredible career that took her all around the globe, Dolly always still considered Music City home. And last week, her longtime plan ...
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What's the story behind nearly-windowless AT&T building right by I-40?
Bad news first. Contrary to popular belief, the almost entirely windowless AT&T building at Broadway and Magnolia does not hold the Guinness World Record for closest building to an interstate. In fact, Guinness doesn't judge a record for that stat at all. But even if it's not a record-holding building, it's certainly an intriguing one, with its minimal windows and aesthetically-incohesive, mashed-together structures. It turns out it's quite old, too. The original parts of the structure at 410 W. Magnolia Ave. are over a century old, dating back to 1913. The name has changed over the years, with the building first housing the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company, and later BellSouth. The building itself has grown, expanding to house Knoxville's telephone needs as technology has evolved − which it's done quite a bit since Alexander Graham Bell got his patent 150 years ago, way back in 1876. History of the mysterious AT&T building Construction of the building began for the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1912, 34 years after the first telephone was used in Knoxville in 1878. The Knoxville Sentinel assured readers in an article from September of that year "within the next few months Knoxville will have
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Knoxville Opera to Honor Veterans with ‘Voices of Valor’
Knoxville Opera will present “Knoxville Opera’s Voices of Valor,” a free Veterans Day concert featuring the U.S. Army Chorus, on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. The concert is presented in partnership with the Cathedral Concert Series at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and brings together the U.S. Army Chorus, Knoxville Opera’s military chorus Military Voices of East Tennessee (MVET), Knoxville Opera soloists, and the Tennessee Wind Symphony.
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Loudon Legacy Museum takes first steps
The first steps have been taken to establish a museum that will preserve the history of the city of Loudon for future generations. The Loudon Legacy Museum will be based in the historic building at 406 Wharf Street, the former McGill/Karns Funeral Home. The museum is expected to open in early 2027.