Safety concerns and fears of fire nearly forced the cancellation of fireworks celebrations in Knoxville this year, but a new venue was found at the last minute. Pete DeBusk, of DeRoyal Industries, has offered up a portion of his home for the fireworks celebration. “I have a couple spare bedrooms that are almost as big…
Day: July 3, 2011
Oak Ridge ‘Walking Man’ finds car, drives away
The ‘Walking Man’ has long been a fixture of Oak Ridge, even developing a following that brought him his own Facebook group. As it turns out, he has simply been looking for his car. Late Saturday evening, he was seen running towards a car near the Grove Theatre and yelling “I found it, I found…
Freeze flash mob overtakes downtown
Friday night saw a freeze flash mob on Market Square in downtown Knoxville. Precisely at 8 p.m. participants froze in their steps for five minutes. Several elderly participants, citing a desire to “be a part of the human furniture that was laid out about the beauty of humanity,†unfortunately could not straighten up from the…