February 12, 2019
Book Signing w/Jack Neely - 3/17
March 17, 2019
2PM-3PM
Join us for a book signing with Jack Neely as we celebrate the release of his newest book, "Historic Knoxville: The Curious Visitor's Guide to Its Stories and Places."Neely is the Executive Director of The Knoxville History Project and a journalist who has been writing about his hometown’s character and heritage for many years. After graduating from the University of Tennessee, where he studied American history, Neely was an Egyptian museum tour guide at the 1982 World’s Fair; later, he was a criminal-defense investigator, and an assistant editor for a national fiction magazine. Since his column, “Secret History,” debuted in 1992, he’s been known mainly as a Knoxville journalist with a particular interest in the city’s unique culture and heritage. He has written several books about Knoxville and its history, most recently The Tennessee Theatre: A Grand Entertainment Palace (2015); Knoxville, Tennessee: Green by Nature (2014); Market Square: A History of the Most Democratic Place on Earth (2nd ed., 2011) and Knoxville, Tennessee: This Obscure Prismatic City (2009).