Agee Crash Bash
The Checkered Flag Sports Bar is on an almost lonely stretch of Clinton Highway in Powell. At another time, it might have been described as a speakeasy, or a workingman's tavern. But on Monday night, the Checkered Flag became a hangout for Knoxville's literary elite and the scene for the tenth anniversary "Agee Crash Bash." A capacity crowd of about 30 writers, musicians, professors and local historians gathered there. Ninety-three years ago, James Agee's father died in a single-car accident. It was the event that spawned Agee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "A Death in the Family". Knoxville historian Jack Neely lead the group in a memorial to the elder Agee and WUOT's Ann Lloyd was there....
Posted by mpowell7 at May 19, 2009 05:45 PM
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