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BUZZ Visit Vestival! The 15th annual Vestival arts and heritage festival is this Saturday at Candoro Marble, corner of Maryville Pike and Candora Avenue. A Mother’s Day brunch at 11 a.m., free and open to all, is generously sponsored by Three Rivers Market and South Knox farmers. There will also be food vendors on site. Two stages will be rockin’ and twangin’ all day. Highlights on the Maryville Pike stage will be The Blue Print featuring Keith Brown, Kevin Abernathy Band, the Lonetones, Exit 65 and Quartjar. On the Carriage House stage, Ewan Carawan and the Celtic Collaborators will start things off at noon, and there will be a special remembrance of Carawan’s father, Guy Carawan, who passed away last week. The Vestival 15 Art Exhibit has an opening reception at 7 p.m. Friday and will be on display all day Saturday. Artists and crafters will demonstrate and sell their wares on the grounds Saturday. Free shuttle service will be provided all day, with stops (and parking) at the South Knoxville Community Center, Mary Vestal Park, ETTAC (East Tennessee Technology Access Center), South Knox Collectors Mall, the new UGO (old Food City), Vestal United Methodist Church and Immanuel Baptist Church.
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Planning underway for Everly Brothers park By Wendy Smith Conceptual planning for a Bearden pocket park dedicated to former West Knox residents Phil and Don Everly is underway for the northeast corner of Kingston Pike and Forest Park Boulevard. The Community Design Center has agreed to work with the Bearden Council on the park. Pocket parks are a new trend that began in San Francisco, says CDC studio design director Leslie Fawaz. They are a way to use leftover space, and a small park on Jackson Avenue near the JFG Flats is an example. Garry Menendez, a UT associate professor and registered landscape architect, and Rachel Rittler of Carol R. Johnson Associates Landscape Architects have agreed to work on the design.
The nonprofit design center provides professional design services to nonprofit and community groups. The Bearden Council will make half of the required donation for the project, and a grant from the city will cover the other half. The design center will work with the council to create a concept design that will be used to help with fundraising. Producing a concept plan typically takes five or six months, and the pocket park project has been underway for about a month, Fawaz says. Bearden Council member Dennis Owen has been in touch with Don Everly about the park. He first
Handwritten lyrics to “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” penned by Don Everly while a West High School student
to make improvements to the railroad bridge over Forest Park. Everly said that it would be wonderful if the park came together, and that he thought Phil, who died in 2014, would feel the same way. But if it didn’t, he asked Owen to tell his friends that he’d had a great time spoke in Knoxville. The brothers moved w ith the musician last fall, and he says to Knoxville in 1953 with Everly was gracious and their parents at the urging of Chet Atkins, who spoke well of Knoxville. That was before City called Knoxville the craCouncil approved a lease dle of country music, says agreement with the state Owen. They attended West for the property, which High School and got fired TDOT purchased in 2010 from their gig with the Cas
Walker Show when their music drifted from country to rock. Their rock-influenced country style and tight harmonies literally transformed the music scene, Owen says. Rock legends Paul McCartney and Paul Simon have cited the influence of the Everlys. “To think that those guys went to high school, played basketball and were in the Spanish club, right across the hill, always seems incredible to me.” Everly, who lives in Nashville, told Owen he would “just come up there” if the park came to fruition. Planning for a capital campaign for the park has begun. Legacy Parks Foundation has agreed to serve as the fiscal agent for the project.
Knox High all-class reunion Saturday Six to join Hall of Fame By Betty Bean Wayne Smith and Eleanor Bartlett Deal Smith – Knoxville High School Class of ’49 – know better than most that high school reunions can be life-changing events. In 1999, Smith lost his wife of 47 years. Deal, with whom he’d had one date in high school (“I was dating her best friend and never called her again”) was newly widowed, as well (her late husband was a fraternity brother of Smith’s at the University of Tennessee and Smith had been in their wedding). They got reacquainted at their 50th class reunion, dated for a year and were married in 2000.
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Years of envisioning and planning are paying off at Lakeshore Park, which served as the verdant backdrop to Mayor Madeline Rogero’s State of the City address and budget presentation last week. Areas once dominated by former Lakeshore Mental Health Institute buildings are now open, allowing for better views of the Tennessee River. Two weeks ago, ground was broken on the first park improvement since the Lakeshore Master Plan was updated in 2013. The universal playground, named in memory of Hank Rappé, the son of Dr. Matt and Brandy Rappé, is expected to open midsummer. Cardin Bradley, the park’s development director, says there is a thirst for information about the park. Demolition of buildings and buzz about the master plan have sparked a huge interest, she says. A Facebook post about the Sara Christensen, David Payne and Joyce Feld examine the Lakeshore Park Master Plan before last week’s city bud- groundbreaking was viewed by get presentation. Payne, a landscape architect and project manager at Ross/Fowler, worked on the master plan. To page A-3 Photos by Wendy Smith
They’ll celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary later this month. But first, they’ve got a date to attend the Historic Knoxville High School All-Class Reunion at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 9, at Bearden Banquet Hall. The speaker will be Rick Dover, CEO of Dover Development, which won the contract to redevelop the old high school building and will convert the historic structure into senior living space with commercial spaces on the ground floor. Lenoir City lawyer Harvey Sproul was a member of KHS Class of ’51 – the last class to graduate before the school was shut down. He said he’s expecting approximately Knoxville High School alums Paul Barnhart and Wayne Smith at the 2012 re- 200 people to attend the reunion, union. Photo submitted To page A-3
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