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An Essay on Knoxville Culture
By Kenny Woodhull, October 2008
Occasioned by a Request to Contribute to Knoxville Salt & Light Guidebook (2009)
Describing the culture of Knoxville is akin to asking the proverbial blind men to describe an elephant. One man, grasping the trunk, says an elephant is like a large hose. Another, holding the tail, declares an elephant resembles a stiff rope. A third, clutching a leg, says an elephant is like a sturdy tree. A fourth declares that the other three are altogether wrong: an elephant, he explains, is an immovable wall of skin and muscle as big as a house.
Point of view is everything. Let me acknowledge at the outset that this perspective on Knoxville culture is one man’s limited assessment of a monumental issue, a subject so large and diverse that no single person or perspective can hope to do it justice.
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New City Resources Calendar
Friday - Saturday
October 10 - 11
2008 |
New City
Resources and Regent College
present:
Fall
2008 Seminar
Worldview at Work
| WHO |
Principal
Speaker :
Paul Stevens
Professor Emeritus, Marketplace Theology
Regent College, Vancouver, Canada
Local contributions and case studies:
Lauren Clevenger
Nurse Practitioner, Critical Care Pediatrics, Knoxville
Randy Pardue
Family Physician, Knoxville
Russell Simmons
Circuit Judge, Kingston, TN
Facilitator:
Kenny Woodhull
New City Resources
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| WHERE |
3710
Riverbrook Drive, Louisville, TN 37777 |
| WHEN |
Friday
4:00pm - 8:30pm (with dinner)
Saturday 8:30am - 3:30pm (with lunch) |
| COST |
$100 |
| CONTACT |
Kenny Woodhull
865.803.9758
kennywoodhull@comcast.net
P.O. Box 397, Knoxville, TN 37901
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Coming in January 2009
Work-Sabbath Cohort, with Dr. Jennie McLaurin, January 30-31, 2009.
Details TBA |
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