"This project developed out of Vines's feature column Where Are They Now? for the Knoxville News Sentinel. The book consists of a collection of stories, updated and expanded, on Knoxville and East Tennessee politicians, personalities, and newsmakers. It's broken into five parts: Political Notes, UT Spotlights, Media Sparks, Park Personalities, and About Town. Vines also includes a preface that provides an overview of her career as a newspaperwoman, how the feature's section for Where Are They Now took shape, and how the book itself came together"--
The division of Whigs in Tennessee is discussed in Arthur Charles Cole , The Whig Party in the South ( Gloucester ... Randolph H. McKim , A Soldier's Recollections : Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate ( Washington , D.C .
In 1919, the city of Knoxville, Tennessee exploded in a firestorm of racial hatred & violence when a black man was accused of murdering a white woman.