Volume 6, Number 21: May 23 - May 30, 1996
Once you clear the fast food miasma on North Broadway and round that small bend in the road, you enter a different region altogether -- and it's called Fountain City. Ostensibly a Knoxville neighborhood, it's actually a city in attitude if not status. Jack Neely wanders its streets to find out what these "Fountain Citians" are about.
Volume 6, Number 22: May 31 - June 6, 1996
Wendy Lowe Besmann offers an inside look at Knoxville's Jewish community. She also introduces some of its most interesting members, who explain what it takes to live a lifestyle sprung from ancient traditions in 20th-century Knoxville, Tennessee.
Volume 6, Number 23: June 6 - June 13, 1996
Val Pendergrast presents members of Knoxville's deaf community, and a debate that, if settled, stands to have a tremendous impact on the future of that distinct culture. Meet educators, policy makers, parents and children who are currently at odds over whether deaf people should be forcibly incorporated into hearing society or left separate and, by and large, content with their "foreign" language: American Sign Language.
Volume 6, Number 24: June 13 - June 20, 1996
Mike Gibson jumps into the pit of NASCAR, an institution that rivals the federal government, and, some say, religion, in the power it has over the south. Drivers, owners, fans, collectors and crewmen explain the muffler-free, high-banked, flame-proof phenomenon we all hold so dear.