Ready to celebrate Robert Burns?

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Wednesday, 22/01/2025

The annual “Burns Night Supper” will be held from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, at The Scotsman Public House in Waynesville. 

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This must be the place: ‘Cloud hang on the mountain, they make me lonesome inside’

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Wednesday, 10/04/2024

With a cool breeze rolling through the Old City district of downtown Knoxville last Thursday evening, I clung tighter to my jacket, pulled the brim of my hat lower and meandered across the railroad tracks towards Boyd’s Jig & Reel. 

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