Writers' Impressions of Knoxville
I always like summer best
You can eat fresh corn
From daddy's garden
And okra and greens and cabbage
And lots of barbecue and buttermilk
And homemade ice cream
At the church picnic
And listen to gospel music outside
At the church homecoming
And go to the mountains with your grandmother
And go barefoot
And be warm
All the time not only when you go to bed
And sleep
"Knoxville, Tennessee" by Nikki Giovanni
who spent much of her childhood on
Mulvaney Street near this spot.
Looking up and down the river, I
wondered why Americans spend
thousands of dollars to travel
to other countries for a vacation.
The scenery along the Tennessee
River is at least as beautiful as
that along the Li River, the legendary
scenic spot in southern China...
Knoxville, a medium-sized city built
on low hills covered with lush, green
trees and grass... is a beautiful
city, but what I like most about it
is its quietness.
Chinese author Liu Zongren, of his stay
in Knoxville in 1982, in his book, Two
Years in the Melting Pot.