The excellent blog 2637

Knoxville has a way of surprising people. The city carries the patina of a place that has done a lot of growing without losing the texture that makes it feel lived-in. You see it in the brick facades downtown, in the steep hills that shape neighborhoods block by block, in the mix of old mill-town character and newer commercial corridors, and in the way the river and the mountains seem to keep the city grounded even as it changes. That same layered character shows up on home