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Library News
Batter UP! It's baseball time in Tennessee!
Nothing says spring like the crack of the bat. Here in East Tennessee, this spring is all about baseball. In anticipation of the opening of the ballpark, we are celebrating the national pastime with an exhibition and some programs. Plus, we have some suggested reading for your bedside table!
A Holiday Season in Knoxville Two Hundred Years Ago
One hundred years ago, people were curious about Christmases of the past, too. By the 1920s, Isabella Cowan Rhea (1849-1935) had lived in downtown Knoxville for three quarters of a century, and her family had been in downtown since frontier times.
Who's turning heads now?
A new addition to 601 S. Gay Street is turning heads. But one head in particular is missing. If you’ve noticed the newly installed marble sculpture in a nook at the East Tennessee History Center, you will certainly notice a missing head, and a hand for that matter.
Louis Livingston Goodman and Knoxville’s Emancipation Day Auto Races of 1929
To mark the McClung Historical Collection’s 13th Moses Smith Day highlight, celebrating our esteemed Civil War veteran and Custom House policeman Moses Smith, McClung Reference Librarian Danette Welch looks at the life of another Knoxvillian who died on a November
Meet Me at the AJ: A behind-the-scenes sneak peek at the iconic building
The Friends of the Library and Oliver Hospitality are hosting a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at the Andrew Johnson Hotel before renovations begin. The event, presented by First Century Bank, is a fundraiser for the Library's Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS). The iconic building has been a defining feature in Knoxville's skyline for nearly 100 years and the tallest in East Tennessee for the first half century of its existence.
The Read City Explorer Pass takes to the stage.
The curtain is coming up on several theatre productions in our area, and Knox County Public Library is excited to help provide access to some of them through the Read City Explorer Pass program.
Both dragons and readers took flight this summer at the library
We tried something different this year, and it was clearly an epic hit.
Edward and Nannie Kline
The picture of 1st U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery Sgt. Edward Kline is a treasure as well as a bit of a mystery.
Read City Adventure Begins
With 500+ kids screaming at the top of their lungs, you’d think the Beatles were in the house—or Taylor Swift. The enthusiasm was real, but the star of the show was books and reading.
Stella DeVault’s gingerbread and Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cookbook
This year, recipe books and cards in the McClung Collection’s annual holiday cooking display feature Stella DeVault and Malinda Russell, local bakers who honed their culinary skills and business acumen during the days before the Civil War.
Adolph Ochs and the First Presbyterian Haunting
Danette Welch, reference librarian at the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, sheds new light on an old haunt, the First Presbyterian Churchyard in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Rare Screening of The Signal Tower (1924) with live score by Roger Miller of Anvil Orchestra
When the Clarence Brown Film Festival takes place this fall, audiences will have the rare chance to see one of Brown's most renowned silent films, which had ostensibly gone missing for over 50 years.
Teen Advisory Board to host its first College Fair
Knox County Public Library will host its first college fair organized by teens on Thursday, March 2, 2023, 3:30–5:30 at the Powell Branch Library.
Zygmunt J. B. Plater Papers (MSC 1022)
The McClung Historical Collection is happy to make available the newly processed Zygmunt J. B. Plater Papers.