Finance + Legal Services

What Chickens Know About Retirement

Article by Eric Foster, CFP®, CPA My family has been among the ranks of backyard chicken farmers for about 15 years. We’ve raised batches of baby chicks in our garage under a heat lamp, battled hawks, snakes and other predators, and celebrated when the first egg appeared about nine months later. There is something universally charming about chickens. They are curious, oddly expressive, and, perhaps most importantly, remarkably productive. Spend even a few minutes around a backyard coop, and you...

Arts + Culture

Horses & Mules: Riders, Stables, Hack Cabs and Mounted Patrols in Knoxville History

Article by Paul James and Jack Neely | Photography by Images by Alec Riedl Knoxville Postcard Collection/KHP, McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville History Project Like any town in America, before the introduction of the automobile, Knoxvillians rode around on horseback. From its earliest days as a territorial capital to the present day, Knoxville has its own stories of special horses and riders that add a little color to the city’s history throughout the decades.   John Sevier, a frontier...

Education

Muse Knoxville Ages UP

Knoxville Children’s Science Museum Expands to Give More Children Opportunities to Explore STEAM First-Hand Article by Patricia Storm Broyles | Photography by Malena Pierce, Muse Marketing and Communications Manager; Barry Slaiman, Volunteer Muse Knoxville turns 13 in August, and like most newly minted teenagers, it is experiencing the challenges and brand-new possibilities of an incredible next chapter as they age up.   To increase its capacity to serve more age groups, Knoxville’s only...

Life + Culture

Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital

A True Story of Friendship: A Surgeon. A Farmer. And A Mule Named Glaze. Article by Patricia Storm Broyles | Photography by Pat Watson and Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital It sounds like a good start to a Johnny Cash song.  But it’s really a story about two friends. One, a self-made East Tennessee farmer, owner-operator of a successful cow-calf and hay operation. The other, a Georgia native, pediatric general thoracic surgeon and Chief Surgical Officer. Both are committed to using their...