Life + Culture

Knoxville Shoebox Collection

New vintage postcards highlight the history of Knoxville places and events. Article by Jack Neely and Paul James | Photography by Collection of Alec Riedl At the nonprofit Knoxville History Project, we are always on the lookout for old images for our Knoxville Shoebox digital collection. If you have interesting photographs, postcards, or brochures from any era, we’d love to hear from you so we can preserve the visual history of Knoxville and make it available for researchers of the future. ...

March 2024

Food + Beverage

Reigniting Fire+Smoke

How Saving a Place for Date Night Became a Labor of Love Article by West Knoxville Lifestyle Staff | Photography by South Made Marketing Julia Child put it so simply, “People who love to eat are the best people.” Enthusiastic foodies and recent transplants from Phoenix, Doug and Tara Snover had searched for a year in their new hometown for “our place” for a weekly date night. Among the many options in a thriving restaurant scene, Tara finally discovered the place in West Knoxville in August...

March 2024

Life + Culture

East Tennessee at Its Best

Steven Brewington on the Culture and Heritage of Windy Hill Farm Article by Jennie Treadway-Miller In 2000, George W. Sampson, founder of Cherokee Distributing Company, bought some land in Loudon on the banks of the Tennessee River and named it Windy Hill. He was fulfilling a long-term dream he had of owning a swath of land in East Tennessee and running cattle on it. His grandson, Steven Brewington, spent many summers on that farm, doing whatever the young teen could do to help.   Then, in...

March 2024

Home Services

Remodeling as An ‘Epik’ Adventure

Perfecting the Craft of Kitchen and Bath Renovations Article by Patricia Storm Broyles | Photography by Epik Rennovations “A kitchen may look beautiful in an online picture, but if it's inconvenient to use, that beauty fades fast,” says Epik Kitchen + Bath founder David Talley. “There are a lot of moving pieces to a kitchen remodel that need to be professionally coordinated and executed to create the elevated space clients dream about.”  With more than thirty years of experience in the...

February 2024