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Continue reading →: South Knoxville’s Old Sevier District & Island Home ParkLike most neighbourhoods near downtown Knoxville, Island Home began as farmland and was developed into a street car suburb at the start of the 1900s. Driving down Island Home Boulevard today, it is easy to imagine the tracks running straight through the center where the tidy median is now. This…
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Continue reading →: South Pittsburg’s National Cornbread FestivalSouth Pittsburg, Tennessee is a small town along the Tennessee River and Sequatchie River. It is part of the greater Chattanooga municipality, about 30 miles west of downtown Chattanooga. The route from Chattanooga to South Pittsburg curves across the Tennessee-Georgia border, and South Pittsburg itself is right on the Tennessee-Alabama…
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Continue reading →: Sweetwater: Bluegrass Festivals, Dairy Farms, & The Lost SeaSweetwater, Tennessee is located along the Sweetwater Creek, a branch of the Tennessee River in Sweetwater Valley. It is at foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and the 9 Lakes Region, close to Vonore, Tellico Plains, and the Cherohala Skyway. Sweetwater is a small town of nearly seven square miles,…
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Continue reading →: Tellico Plains: An Ancient Cherokee Overhill Site, The Cherohala Skyway & The Trout FestivalTellico Plains, Tennessee is a small mountain town of around 1.6 square miles in East Tennessee. It is part of Monroe County along with the cities of Sweetwater, Vonore, and Madisonville. Tellico Plains also includes the communities of Coker Creek, Mount Vernon, Belltown, and a few others. Telliquah was the…
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Continue reading →: East Nashville: Hail Seitan!Where y’allternative punk, metalgrass, and rockabilly bands play in bowling alleys, vegan cafes, oddity boutiques, and pop-up vintage shops
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Continue reading →: Nashville’s 12 South: Hot Chicken and Sound SuitsSouth Nashville is a different side of Nashville than I’m used to. It is not the world-famous honky tonks of Broadway, and certainly not the gritty East Nashville with dimly lit dives, vintage shops, goth/industrial clubs, and late night jukebox bars that my friends and I have haunted over the…
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Continue reading →: Fountain City: Don’t You Dare Call That Lake a Pond!Fountain City is a small community located in north Knoxville, TN. It got its start when Captain John Adair created Fort Adair (aka Adair Station) in the 1780s as a military supply depot and defensive post for other European settlers against the Cherokee, whose land they were invading. Adair’s predecessors…
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Continue reading →: Inskip: Knoxville’s Little MexicoNearly everyone in Knoxville, TN knows the parameters of Inskip’s twin community, Fountain City, but ask them about Inskip and you will likely get a blank look.
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Continue reading →: Chasing the Bourbon Trail: A Top 10 List for Lexington’s Distillery DistrictBOURBON COUNTY Bourbon County, Kentucky was established in 1785 and its distilling industry was off to a strong start. Any whiskey transported out of Bourbon County was, simply enough, called Bourbon whiskey, but eventually just shortened to Bourbon. Skip ahead to 1964 when the US Congress declared that bourbon is…
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Continue reading →: Walkin’ the Line in Bristol: Birthplace of Country MusicBristol is a twin city located right on the state line of Tennessee and Virginia. You can GPS yourself to either Bristol, TN or Bristol, VA and end up on the same street. State Street, that is. State Street runs through the heart of both cities’ shared downtown and is…
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Continue reading →: Historic Old Louisville District: Edison’s Exposition, Stone Castles, & The Witches’ TreeThe historic Old Louisville Neighborhood is the beholder of many of this country’s largest collections. Among them is the largest collection of restored Victorian homes and the third largest Preservation District in the United States. These forty city blocks do not just contain the most Victorian homes, rather, it is…
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Continue reading →: Three Icons of Louisville: Historic Wharf, Galt House Hotel, & The Brown HotelLouisville, Kentucky is known for a great number of old-fashioned Southern charms like bourbon, baseball, and betting on horses, but some of its finer icons are part of the city infrastructure itself. A walk through downtown Louisville along the Ohio River and dining at two of the city’s most historic…
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