http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/ It's the smart place to be. en-US Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:08:00 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/12/brown-bag-green-book-moral-ground.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/12/brown-bag-green-book-moral-ground.html The current debate about the causes of climate change is polarizing enough. When we extend the discussion to what our moral response to it should be, the discussion becomes even more challenging. Nina Gregg, Independent Organization Consultant, contemplates the book... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:44:06 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/11/brown-bag-green-book-climate-cover-up.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/11/brown-bag-green-book-climate-cover-up.html Climate cover-up: the crusade to deny global warming by James Hoggan presents a detailed analysis of how business organizations and conservative think tanks orchestrate campaigns to question global warming. Jesse Fox Mayshark discusses the book. Download [13 MB mp3] Subscribe... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:08:40 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/11/brown-bag-green-book-forbidden-creatures.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/11/brown-bag-green-book-forbidden-creatures.html The selected book, Forbidden creatures: inside the world of animal smuggling and exotic pets, looks into the motivations of owners of exotic pets and the serious consequences of the trade. The discussion of the book is led by Dr. Marcy... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:17:48 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/07/brown-bag-green-book-22-the-bridge-at-the-edge-of-the-world.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/07/brown-bag-green-book-22-the-bridge-at-the-edge-of-the-world.html The selected book, The bridge at the edge of the world: capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability, suggests that our current emphasis on economic growth does not allow for critical environmental protections. Columnist Frank Cagle responds to... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:08:54 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/07/brown-bag-green-book-21-living-downstream.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/07/brown-bag-green-book-21-living-downstream.html Edye Ellis, former co-anchor of WBIR-TV Channel 10, talks about surviving cancer and the importance of understanding the risks of exposure to toxins. The book Living downstream: an ecologist's personal investigation of cancer and the environment suggests that reducing our... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:38:20 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/05/brown-bag-green-book-20-nuclear-power-accidents.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/05/brown-bag-green-book-20-nuclear-power-accidents.html Harold Denton provides his perspective on three accidents in nuclear power generation: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. There was no book selected for this meeting, but the library has relevant books you can check out. Download [14 MB mp3]... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 10 May 2011 14:49:15 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/03/brown-bag-green-book-19-the-climate-war.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/03/brown-bag-green-book-19-the-climate-war.html Dr. Stephen A. Smith, Executive Director of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, spoke about The Climate war: true believers, power brokers, and the fight to save the Earth by Eric Pooley. Download [21 MB mp3] Subscribe for free to get... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:37:21 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/03/brown-bag-green-book-18-the-weather-of-the-future.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/03/brown-bag-green-book-18-the-weather-of-the-future.html Matt Hinkin, meteorologist at WATE, shared some of his favorite selections from the book The Weather of the Future by renown climatologist Heidi Cullen. Download Subscribe for free to get new podcast episodes automatically downloaded so you can listen whenever... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:59:02 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/02/bbgb_eaarth.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2011/02/bbgb_eaarth.html Charles Maynard, author and founding Executive Director of Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, led an engaging discussion of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben. Twenty years ago, with his previous book The... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:15:36 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/12/brown-bag-green-book-16-every-living-thing.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/12/brown-bag-green-book-16-every-living-thing.html In Every Living Thing, Dunn reminds readers how tough and exhilarating it is to study the natural world, and why it matters. A thousand years ago we thought we knew almost everything, a hundred years ago, too. But even today,... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:48:18 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/11/brown-bag-green-book-er-article-superbugs.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/11/brown-bag-green-book-er-article-superbugs.html This Brown Bag, Green Book is a little different. Instead of a book, the discussion is based on a New Yorker article “Superbugs” by Jerome Groopman. Dr. Martha Buchanan, Director of Knox County Health Department, led the discussion. Dr. Jerome... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:50:18 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/10/brown-bag-green-book-14-blue-covenant.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/10/brown-bag-green-book-14-blue-covenant.html Tiffany Foster, Renee Hoyos, and Joanne Logan discussed Maude Barlow's Blue Covenant. Said Ms. Hoyos, "Blue Covenant brings the challenges to managing water for the future into sharp relief. While we sometimes think that we have plenty of water, resources... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:54:12 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/10/brown-bag-green-book-13-green-metropolis.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/10/brown-bag-green-book-13-green-metropolis.html Madeline Rogero spoke to a record-setting crowd about the book Green Metropolis: Why living smaller, living closer and driving less are the keys to sustainability by David Owen. In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, Owen argues... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:46:00 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/09/brown-bag-green-book-12-rewilding-the-world.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/09/brown-bag-green-book-12-rewilding-the-world.html Don Barger gave a fascinating talk about the book Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution by Caroline Fraser on August 25th. In Rewilding Fraser offers the first definitive account of a visionary campaign to confront the looming extinction... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:06:59 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/09/brown-bag-green-book-11-fast-food-nation.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/09/brown-bag-green-book-11-fast-food-nation.html Dr. John Nolt revisited the classic Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, a book that remains relevant today. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, AND... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:42:17 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/07/brown-bag-green-book-10-power-trip.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/07/brown-bag-green-book-10-power-trip.html Harvey Abouelata led a discussion of alternative energy sources as explored in Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells--Our Ride to the Renewable Future by Amanda Little. Prominent journalist Amanda Little maps out the history and future of America's... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:30:26 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/06/teens-kick-off-summer-reading-with-ya-author-suzanne-supplee.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/06/teens-kick-off-summer-reading-with-ya-author-suzanne-supplee.html Suzanne Supplee is the author of Artichoke's Heart and When Irish Guys Are Smiling. Supplee visited on May 24, 2010 and read from her latest book, Somebody Everybody Listens To [MP3 file, 7 MB]. Somebody Everybody Listens To is the... Books Podcasts Teen Writers Kachina Domenick Johnson Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:28:00 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/05/christopher-walsh-on-mccarthy.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/05/christopher-walsh-on-mccarthy.html Christopher Walsh, author of In the Wake of the Sun: Navigating the Southern Works of Cormac McCarthy, discusses his book and his favorite aspects of McCarthy's work in this podcast, edited from his public remarks. Download the recording or use... Books Podcasts Writers Kachina Domenick Johnson Thu, 13 May 2010 16:33:38 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/05/favorite-poem-reading.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/05/favorite-poem-reading.html In celebration of National Poetry Month this April, several people came together to read their favorite poems aloud to each other. This program was suggested and led by Daryl Learn Houston. Download the recording here, or use the player below:... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 05 May 2010 14:30:01 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/03/justice-as-fairness-part-5.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/03/justice-as-fairness-part-5.html John Rawls warns against a political life dominated by dogmatic fanaticism or apathetic resignation. The University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Knox County Public Library invite you to participate in a study of... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:31:31 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/03/justice-as-fairness-part-4.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/03/justice-as-fairness-part-4.html John Rawls warns against a political life dominated by dogmatic fanaticism or apathetic resignation. The University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Knox County Public Library invite you to participate in a study of... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:56 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/02/justice-as-fairness-part-3.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/02/justice-as-fairness-part-3.html John Rawls warns against a political life dominated by dogmatic fanaticism or apathetic resignation. The University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Knox County Public Library invite you to participate in a study of... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:36:50 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/02/justice-as-fairness-part-2.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/02/justice-as-fairness-part-2.html John Rawls warns against a political life dominated by dogmatic fanaticism or apathetic resignation. The University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Knox County Public Library invite you to participate in a study of... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:07:00 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/02/justice-as-fairness-a-community-book-discussion.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/02/justice-as-fairness-a-community-book-discussion.html John Rawls warns against a political life dominated by dogmatic fanaticism or apathetic resignation. The University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Knox County Public Library invite you to participate in a study of... Books Podcasts Kachina Domenick Johnson Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:35:00 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/01/historic-knoxville-news-15-miss-hazens-courtship-in-court.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2010/01/historic-knoxville-news-15-miss-hazens-courtship-in-court.html Miss Evelyn Hazen, a beautiful and independent woman of a prominent family, caused a stir in Knoxville Society when she sued her lover for jilting her. The reading (transcript here) is edited and compiled from several Knoxville Journal stories filed... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:59:38 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/12/brown-bag-green-book-9-cheap.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/12/brown-bag-green-book-9-cheap.html For the ninth episode in our lunchtime book club series, the selected book was Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Dr. William D. Shiell, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, led the discussion. "Cheap addresses... Books Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:22:56 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/12/brown-bag-green-book-8-last-child-in-the-woods.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/12/brown-bag-green-book-8-last-child-in-the-woods.html The eighth episode in our lunchtime book club series is about Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv. Dr. McIntyre, Superintendent of Knox County Schools, led the discussion along with Knox County School’s... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:20:50 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/11/brown-bag-green-book-7-somethings-rising.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/11/brown-bag-green-book-7-somethings-rising.html Dawn Coppock and Pat Hudson of LEAF discussed the issue of mountaintop removal coal mining and the book Something's Rising: Appalachians fighting mountaintop removal. View their presentation slides as you listen to the recording below. The people who live, work,... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:54:15 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/10/readings-by-the-2009-knoxville-writers-guild-contest-winners.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/10/readings-by-the-2009-knoxville-writers-guild-contest-winners.html On October 1, 2009, the Knoxville Writer’s Guild met at Laurel Theater to celebrate the winners of the 2009 writing competition. Knox County Public Library is proud to present the winners reading from their work in our podcast series with... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:56:37 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/10/brown-bag-green-book-6-growing-greener-cities.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/10/brown-bag-green-book-6-growing-greener-cities.html Here is a recording of the sixth in our lunchtime book club series called Brown Bag, Green Book. John W. Craig, owner of Segundo Properties, led our discussion of Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:20:22 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/10/download-fountain_city_history_walk.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/10/download-fountain_city_history_walk.html Dr. J.C. Tumblin led a walking tour of historic Fountain City; you can listen and follow along with a booklet. Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:24:05 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/09/historic-knoxville-news-14-market-square-farmers-market.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/09/historic-knoxville-news-14-market-square-farmers-market.html In this podcast we read two articles (transcript here) from the 1920's and 30's that appreciate the development of Market Square as a farmer's market. Author Jack Neely is a special guest on the commentary portion; his book is entitled... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:09:05 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/07/brown-bag-green-book-5-listen-and-discuss.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/07/brown-bag-green-book-5-listen-and-discuss.html Ben Epperson, Coordinator of Beardsley Community Farm, led a well-attended discussion about local food, based on the memoir Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an important story for all of us," says Epperson, "especially here in... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:25:03 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/07/knoxville-and-the-civil-rights-movement.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/07/knoxville-and-the-civil-rights-movement.html Robert J. Booker's memories of organizing the lunch counter sit-ins in Knoxville during the Civil Rights movement. Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:32:44 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/06/brown-bag-green-book-4-listen-and-discuss.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/06/brown-bag-green-book-4-listen-and-discuss.html In Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Coal and Oil, Michael Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), shows us how we, as motivated citizens, can kick our own fossil-fuel habit and pressure policymakers and corporations to change their... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:10:03 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/06/historic-knoxville-news-12-the-hanging-of-mary-a-circus-elephant.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/06/historic-knoxville-news-12-the-hanging-of-mary-a-circus-elephant.html This podcast episode tells the strange and sad story of how an elephant came to be executed in Erwin, TN in 1916 for killing her handler. The reading is an abridgment of an article entitled “The hanging of Mary, a... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:23:49 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/05/brown-bag-green-book-3-listen-and-discuss.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/05/brown-bag-green-book-3-listen-and-discuss.html In The Green Collar Economy, author Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into a healthy new green economy. Chris Woodhull, a Knoxville City Councilman who co-founded TRIBE ONE,... Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 15 May 2009 14:26:12 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/04/brown-bag-green-book-2-listen-and-discuss-.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/04/brown-bag-green-book-2-listen-and-discuss-.html Elizabeth Eason, a Knoxville architect accredited with the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED system, led a community discussion of the book _Cradle to cradle: Remaking the way we make things_ by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:47:37 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/04/historic-knoxville-news-12-desperado-captured.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/04/historic-knoxville-news-12-desperado-captured.html Kid Curry was one of the most wanted criminals of the Wild West, a cohort of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. After participating in the Great Northern Train Robbery, he hid out in Knoxville until one evening he got into fisticuffs in a Bowery pool hall. Police arrived on the scene, and in the exchange of gunfire the bandit, whose real name was Harvey Logan, escaped from the police he wounded. Logan’s own wounds led to his identification and capture two days later. Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:49:02 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/03/brown-bag-green-book-1-listen-and-discuss-.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/03/brown-bag-green-book-1-listen-and-discuss-.html Here is a recording of the first in our lunchtime book club series called Brown Bag, Green Book. Mike Edwards, CEO and President of the Knoxville Chamber, led a community discussion of the book Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman. Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:58:35 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/02/historic-knoxville-news-11-on-board-airship-knoxville.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/02/historic-knoxville-news-11-on-board-airship-knoxville.html In 1922, Knoxville Aero Corporation was the proud owner of the first privately-owned aeroplane in the city, christened Airship Knoxville. This article tells of one of the corporation's efforts to find a commercial application for their cutting-edge investment--that of running charter flights into the Smokies. Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:55:02 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/01/celebrating-the-sunsphere.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2009/01/celebrating-the-sunsphere.html On July 28, 2008 the Sunsphere was both the site and the subject of a luncheon lecture by one of the architects who worked on the theme structure for the 1982 World's Fair. William Denton spoke about the challenges of constructing the world's first spherical building, and what he hopes Knoxville will do with it now. Former mayor Randall Tyree spoke following Mr. Denton's remarks. Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:51:04 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/12/historic-knoxville-news-10-the-milliondollar-gay-street-fire.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/12/historic-knoxville-news-10-the-milliondollar-gay-street-fire.html On April 8, 1897, a small fire began in back of a hotel in Gay Street's business district and quickly spread through the expensive establishments that were the pride of the city. The fire claimed five lives and a million... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:53:31 -0500 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/10/historic-knoxville-news.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/10/historic-knoxville-news.html On a rainy October day in 1882, a shotgun blast ripped across Gay street showering bystanders with stray shot and bringing instant death to the intended target, General Joseph A. Mabry. After the echoes of a few more shots faded,... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:11:06 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/10/readings-from-t.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/10/readings-from-t.html On October 9, members of the Knoxville Writers' Guild met at Lawson McGhee Library to share readings from Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers, the guild's newest anthology, edited by Jessie Janeshek and Jesse Graves. Poetry and short fiction were read by Judy Loest, Laura Still, Pamela Schoenewaldt, Dawn Coppock, and R.B. Morris. The library is pleased to provide this recording in our podcast series. Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:45:01 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/10/big-read-new-deal.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/10/big-read-new-deal.html In 1939, Steinbeck published the story of a desperate family searching for a better life during the Great Depression in The Grapes of Wrath. By that time, President Roosevelt had instituted the New Deal--programs designed to help such families and... Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:03:00 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/09/historic-knoxvi.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/09/historic-knoxvi.html For three days in October of 1890, Knoxville hosted an enormous reunion of Confederate and Union soldiers near the site of Fort Sanders. The visitors nearly doubled the city's population, and they all needed places to sleep, and food. How did Knoxville step up to the challenge? What did the veterans do at the reunion? Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:13:13 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/08/three-cups-of-t.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/08/three-cups-of-t.html Ed Francisco is a professor and writer in residence at Pellissippi State Technical Community College. In this recording, he opens a public discussion of the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson by offering an analysis of the book as "a species of romance known as the hero's quest." Books Events Podcasts Knox County Public Library Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:46:04 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/08/historic-knoxvi.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/08/historic-knoxvi.html John Sevier died on September 24, 1815, while on a mission in the territory of Alabama. In 1889 his remains were removed from the Alabama cotton field and brought to Knoxville for burial on the courthouse lawn. The articles for this episode describe in detail the excavation of the grave, the pageantry of Sevier Day, the gathering of dignitaries, and the pride of Knoxvillians in discharging "a duty incumbent upon her citizens." Podcasts Knox County Public Library Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:20:32 -0400 http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/07/historic-knoxvi.html http://blogs.knoxlib.org/main/2008/07/historic-knoxvi.html In 1932, nine men hiked the full length of what was to be the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This first person account of the adventure shows just how far the park has come since logging and fire devastated over half of its area prior to 1940. Podcasts Knox County Public Library Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:13:10 -0400