Dr. Bob and Louise Collier were honored Friday in what committee chair Dr. Donald Wegener called a first in the 35-year history of the Powell Man and Woman of the Year awards. “This is the first time we have selected a couple,” said Wegener. He teased the audience a bit before revealing the honorees. The…
Ron Evans had a surprise guest at the Oct. 28 meeting of the Powell’s Station History Society. Jon D. Smith, a descendant of William Menifee, the brother of Powell’s founder, John Menifee, dropped by with a really neat family photograph and his personal research into his family’s genealogy. Smith said family names like Collier and…
James Agee won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with “A Death in the Family,” and now a local author is writing a biography, “Rufus,” that includes Agee’s early years in Knoxville and the impact of the 1916 Clinton Highway wreck that killed his father. Paul F. Brown said Agee (1909-1955) spent one-third of his…
