“If you come to this party, I guarantee you’ll be dancing at the end of the night.” That’s what Gay Lyons told me the week before the second annual Dogwood After Dark party, an event that kicks off the Dogwood Arts Festival. I figured Gay should know. She was the chair of the soiree, which [...]

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After seven years, it’s become a ritual for us. We always have a party to cheer on the runners in the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon. For five of those years the party was at our home on Cherokee Boulevard when the runners came by about 30 minutes after the race started — we were on [...]

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