Don't Knock Knoxville

Fun Along the Banks of the Tennessee River

By Elissa Gilbert

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The World's Fair was held in Knoxville in 1982 and World's Fair Park (www.worldsfairpark.com) still houses attractions, including the giant Sunsphere (a tower topped with a bronzed glass sphere that reminded me of the giant basketball outside the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame!), Fort Kid playground, a geyser and an interactive fountain to splash through.

Can a house be called a mansion if it only has four rooms? The Blount Mansion (www.blountmansion.org) was the height of elegance compared to its neighbors on the Tennessee frontier when it was built in 1792. Made from sawn boards, not rough-cut logs, it had so many windows the local Cherokee called it "the house of many eyes." Mansion or not, life was hard on the frontier: There's a bed in the dining room! The upstairs children's rooms feature simple toys like marbles for the boys and a spoon doll for the girls, nothing more than a wooden spoon with a face drawn on it wrapped in a few scraps of cloth. You can learn some linguistic history as well; tools in the house explain the origins of the phrases "sleep tight" and "pop goes the weasel!"

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Don't Knock Knoxville

Fun Along the Banks of the Tennessee River

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