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This year represents WUOT's 60th Anniversary year. All week long, we've been looking back on 60 years of radio on WUOT. We've heard from those people who were there at the beginning and from those who participated in the station's growth throughout the next six decades. On this final segment, we reflect on the music, the foundation upon which WUOT was built...
WUOT went on the air on October 27th, 1949. And all year long, we're celebrating our 60th anniversary. This week, we're hearing the voices of some of the people who were at WUOT during the good times and the bad times. On this segment, we revisit a management decision that changed the station's character forever...
Each morning this week, we're taking a step back in time to celebrate WUOT's 60th Anniversary. We're hearing the voices of some of the people who played a significant role in the radio station's evolution. Today, we go back to the turbulent 1960's...
Each morning this week, we're taking a step back in time to celebrate WUOT's 60th Anniversary. We're hearing the voices of some of the people who played a significant role in the radio station's evolution. Today, we look at how University of Tennessee students contributed-- and kept things interesting--- in WUOT's early days...
Throughout this year, WUOT is celebrating it's 60th Anniversary. This week, we're taking a look back on the last six decades through the words and memories of some of the people who were there. In Part I of the series, we look back to those very first moments on the air. We go back to October 27th, 1949...
Solar Array at the Knox County Detention Facility, Knoxville, Tennessee
(photo courtesy of FLS Energy, Asheville, North Carolina)
The movement to revamp energy technology and reduce carbon emissions is gaining ground across the country and Knox County is no exception. The current county budget includes a $40 million dollar spending measure to improve the energy efficiency of county facilities. In the case of the Knox County Detention Facility, part of that funding is going to a project going online this month: The largest domestic solar hot water system in the country.
Chrissy Keuper has this report...
Consider this--- before we end this program an hour from now, 171 Americans will become victims of a violent crime. Another 381 will be threatened with violence. Twenty-eight people---almost exclusively women--- will be either threatened with sexual assault or actually assaulted.
So what do you do to protect yourself? A handgun might be one option. But not every one wants to carry a gun-- or believes it's the best way to handle a violent incident. On this segment of Dialogue, host Matt Shafer Powell speaks with father/son self-defense experts Bruce and David Corrigan of Progressive Martial Arts of Oak Ridge about how to avoid becoming a victim of violent crime and how to react if you do...
Cerberus (Inferno #6)
Ecstatic Visions (Purgatorio #12)
The Dust of Souls (Paradiso #11)
Italian author Dante Alighieri's poem Inferno, or Hell, is probably the best-known of a trilogy of poems called The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In the 1950s, the Italian government commissioned Salvador Dali to create illustrations for the trilogy. Though the commission was later rescinded, Dali continued work on the project and ended up with 100 watercolors, one for each verse of the trilogy. He then teamed up with French printer Jean Estrade, who put out the first printed collection in 1965 to honor the 700th Anniversary of Alighieri's birth.
In 2000, University of Tennessee alumnus Gary Johnson bought a copy of the collection and then donated it to UT in 2006. The collection was shown at UT's Downtown Gallery in Knoxville. Chrissy Keuper has this feature on the exhibit...