Tag Archives: Mark Hill

Evening Under the Stars even better with fun addition

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Cynthia Moxley

One of Knoxville’s best fundraisers — Evening Under the Stars benefiting the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra — has gotten even better this year. The annual dinner and dancing soiree, held in a huge tent at the beautiful lakeside home of Sherri … Continue reading →

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Sweet solstice supper is gentle slide into summer

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Cynthia Moxley

“Why go to Stonehenge when you can experience the Solstice amid the old stones at the Botanical Gardens?” the invitation queried. “Why, indeed?” we asked ourselves. One other instruction on the invite: As part of the fun, we encourage guests … Continue reading →

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Jazz and Cocktails ’23: beautiful on all fronts

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Cynthia Moxley

“Jazz and Cocktails,” one of the most compelling excuses for day drinking on the Knoxville social calendar, changed locations this year. A fundraiser for the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra’s youth scholarships, it generally is held at the venerable Maple Grove Estate … Continue reading →

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Blackberry Farm event was marvelous. Mostly.

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Cynthia Moxley

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s annual fundraising dinner at Blackberry Farm was a sellout this year as folks seemed to crave getting out and about after being fully vaccinated — a requirement to attend the event. (Thank you, Knoxville Symphony!) Even … Continue reading →

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COVID respite allows for downtown progressive dinner

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Cynthia Moxley

It was a couple of weeks ago and it seemed that the COVID numbers had leveled off. All of our regular progressive dinner club members had been vaccinated and so had our friends, Mark and Cathy Hill, who recently joined … Continue reading →

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‘Suttree’s Knoxville’ provides sublime summer evening

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Cynthia Moxley

It was a stunningly beautiful evening last week at Lakeshore Park when the Big Ears Festival presented “Suttree’s Knoxville,” a silent film accompanied by live music. The film chronicled Knoxville during the four years in the 1950s which provided the … Continue reading →

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Wine, food and ‘donuts behaving badly!’

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Cynthia Moxley

The Knoxville Museum of Art’s hugely successful L’Amour du Vin fundraiser has come and gone (more on that in a later post), but one of my favorite parts of the whole weekend every year is what’s called the “Artist’s Luncheon.” … Continue reading →

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‘The most important artist Knoxville ever produced’

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Cynthia Moxley

We are in full-on Beauford Delaney season here in Knoxville. And that’s a good thing. Because, according to David Butler, executive director of the Knoxville Museum of Art, the late Delaney is “by any standard, the most important artist Knoxville … Continue reading →

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Another enchanting ‘Evening Under the Stars’

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Cynthia Moxley

If it’s October, it must be time for one of the most enjoyable fundraisers of the season. “Evening Under the Stars” is a night of great music, great food and great camaraderie. And, as a big bonus, here’s what it … Continue reading →

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Something peachy and piggy at Cottonwood

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Cynthia Moxley

In North Knoxville is a beautiful historic home called Cottonwood. Built between 1894 and 1897 by botanist Nathan Wesley Hale and his wife, Laura Adelaide Sebastian, it sat at the time on 300 acres that the Hales dedicated to the … Continue reading →

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