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Former Knox County art instructors exhibit
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One of Powell High School art teacher Lee Jenkins-Freels’ first experiences with an exceptionally talented student presented a special challenge. He had already won great acclaim for his work, but Jenkins-Freels knew he could do more.
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New pastor at Christ UMC Dennie Humphreys is the new pastor at Christ United Methodist Church in Halls. He sat down with Jake Mabe last week to introduce himself to the community.
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By Libby Morgan The next new featured exhibit at the Fountain City Art Center is “The Magnificent Seven,” a show with works by former Knox County art instructors: Charles “Chico” Osten, Suzanne Jack, Sue W. Lane, Christine Harness, Judy Jorden, Rikki Taylor and Owen Weston. Taylor specializes in decorative pottery, and the other members of the Magnificent Seven will be showing works in oils, watercolors, mixed media and nature photography. The opening reception for the
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Chick-fil-A opens Thursday The Fountain City Chick-filA restaurant at Rennoc Road and N. Broadway will open Thursday, Aug. 8, bringing more than 75 jobs and the chance for 100 adults to win free Chick-fil-A meals for a year. The first 100 adults, ages 18 and older with identification, in line when the doors open about 6 a.m. Aug. 8, will win 52 coupons for a chicken sandwich, medium waffle potato fries and a medium drink. The line officially opens at 6 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7.
Rikki Taylor, a former art instructor at Halls Middle School, will display her ceramic art at the Magnificent Seven show opening on Aug. 16. Photos submitted
Meet Central High School’s new principal, Dr. Jody Goins, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the CHS library. The event is sponsored by the Central High School Alumni Association, the Fountain City Business and Professional Association, and Work Now. Dr. Goins was previously the principal at Oak Ridge High School.
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By Jake Mabe Knox County Watershed Coordinator Roy Arthur says that Beaver Creek qualifies as a blueway under unofficial criteria. “There are no official criteria,” Arthur says, “exRoy Arthur cept for ones established by organizations such
as the Sierra Club.” Arthur says the four unofficial criteria are: 1. The waterway is designated as “waters of state,” i.e. the state owns the water. 2. The waterway has to be navigable by small watercraft. Debris jams must be taken down. 3. The waterway has to have launch points. 4. The waterway has no posted water hazards (bacteria like e coli).
“Beaver Creek meets all four criteria. A final decision to designate it as such will have to be made by Knox County.” Arthur said the county is exploring a first phase, which would be from Harrell Road Park to Northwest Sports Park in Karns, “to see how that goes.” “Then a second phase might be from Clayton Park in Halls to Dry Gap Pike. “There are about 40 miles of Beaver Creek’s main stem that
are navigable. So, you could potentially have a blueway that entire length. Wouldn’t that be wonderful to put in at Clayton Park and kayak all the way to Melton Hill Lake? Some of it even has rapids.” Arthur says no tax dollars are being spent on the exploratory project and that county employees are clearing debris jams in their spare time. “That also has a positive effect on flooding.”
The Cavett Station Massacre A new look at an old story Charles Faulkner slowed his Prius to a crawl as he topped the ridge on Broome Road a short distance from Middlebrook Pike. This, he said, is probably where the Cherokee scouts stood early on the morning of Sept. 25, 1793, and spotted smoke from the fireplace of Alexander Cavett’s fortified cabin in the woods below. They were part of a massive war party – said to number 1,000 warriors – who had marched all night, bypassing Campbell Station to stay on schedule to launch a dawn attack on Knoxville, which was sparsely defended and could not have withstood such an assault. Ravenous mosquitos are the only danger facing modern day visitors to the old Mars Hill graveyard a short distance below the spine of the ridge. Contrary to the inscription on the monument placed there in 1921 by the Tennessee Sons of the Revolution, Faulkner is quite certain that this spot wasn’t the site of the Cavett Station massacre, where 11 Cavett family members and two militia sent by John Sevier
to protect them were slaughtered. He believes the cabin stood some distance down the hill, just above one of several springs that form Sinking Creek and are now hidden behind the well-kept homes at the entrance to the Cavett Station subdivision, a few yards west of the intersection of Alexander Cavett Drive and Doublehead Lane. “My wife, kids and all kinds of people went out there to help. We worked for two summers doing shovel testing, digging holes on a grid, down to the subsoil. We didn’t find it. The location is rather vague, but there’s still enough information that we knew the approximate location. That area is covered with subdivisions now,” Faulkner said. He has written a new book (his fourth), called “Massacre at Cavett Station: Frontier Tennessee during the Cherokee Wars,” published by the University of Tennessee Press. It’s already available on Amazon and will be in bookstores soon. In it, he debunks old rumors and presents a balanced view, including the grievances of the Cherokee, who had been driven by a series of land grabs and betrayals at the hands of the whites to unite with the more militant Creeks and the Chickamauga Cherokee from
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Alabama, North Georgia and the Chattanooga area. “The Indians did not buy or sell land, and the chiefs did not have authority to sign papers selling or giving away land, but some of them did it anyway, and the next thing they knew, here came the white people. The Indians thought when they signed treaties, white people could come farm, but they did not have a concept of private property. That was totally foreign to them,” Faulkner said. This came after the turmoil of the Revolutionary War, when the
Cherokee sided with the British and split into two groups, one of which opposed giving up land and making peace. “They split off from the main group and went down to the Chattanooga area and became the Chickamauga. The Overhill Cherokee attempted to maintain peace with the whites,” Faulkner said. In 1788, First Beloved Man and principal chief Old Tassel and Chief Abraham were attempting to make peace with the State of To page A-3
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