Kevin Bogle

@kevinbogle.bsky.social

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History/genealogy reference librarian; guitarist, musician and composer; skiing, hiking, mtn. biking; old books, libraries & archives; hippie jambands, live music, Phoenix Suns, Tennessee Football & basketball; TN & local history research. Phish, SCI,Goose

Picture of Batman from the animated series. He’s standing on top of a building as lightning flashes in the background.
A 1925 picture of a goat pulling a wagon that says “Knoxville 1925” on it, with a small child standing next to the wagon.
Picture of the Ramsey House in Knoxville, Tennessee, built in 1797 for Francis Alexander Ramsey. Actual construction was done by Seth Smith, a Pennsylvania Quaker stonemason who built several stone houses in East Tennessee.
Hiking trail on Mt. LeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The band Descendents, playing at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Ga in 2017
Picture of a large stone house surrounded by trees. This is the ca. 1792 Gillespie Stone House in Limestone, Tennessee.
Picture of the 1798 James Rice grist mill in Union County, Tennessee
Picture of the Nicholas Gibbs House on Emory Road in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was built in 1793 by Nicholas Gibbs. Born in Germany in 1733, he served in the French and Indian War, and later in the American Revolution. It is a log cabin with trees all around it.
Picture of skiing on Mammoth Mountain
Picture of a large, rectangular block of stone, with "Strong's Terrace" engraved in it.
Circa-1903 picture of the Strong's Terrace apartment building in downtown Knoxville, TN. Picture from the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection: https://cmdc.knoxlib.org/digital/collection/p15136coll4/id/3282/rec/2
Circa early-1970s picture of Strong's Terrace apartment building in downtown Knoxville, TN. Picture from the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection https://cmdc.knoxlib.org/digital/collection/p16311coll13/id/4/rec/1
Picture of a large, rectangular piece of stone, engraved with the words "Strong's Terrace," lying on the ground and surrounded by leaves.
A close-up picture of the gravestone of Rody Anderson (1779-2849) at the Flenniken-Cunningham-Simpson cemetery in south Knoxville, Tennessee.
Picture of the Flenniken-Cunningham-Simpson cemetery in south Knoxville, TN, with several old gravestones in the woods
Picture of the ruined walls of an old stone house. Crumbling stone walls still partially standing, with a brick fireplace still intact. This is what's left of the James Gillespie house, built in 1802, near Knoxville, Tennessee.
Picture of the Minarets mountains near Mammoth Mountain, California, February 2023.
Picture of two people walking down the street in Mammoth Lakes, California, in front of a giant wall of snow.
Picture of Lovell’s Electro-Turkish Baths, a bathhouse on Gay Street in Knoxville, Tennessee in the 1920s.
Black and white picture of the interior of the ca. 1787 Alexander McMillan house in Knoxville, Tn. Taken by Cathryn Irwin in July 1998.
Black and white picture of the ca. 1787 Alexander McMillan house in Knoxville, Tn. Taken by Cathryn Irwin in July 1998.
Picture of a dark, foggy tunnel of trees on a trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Picture of the band Umphrey’s McGee performing live on stage
Picture of the US post office and Custom House in Knoxville, Tn under construction in 1872.
Picture of an old hand-written letter, with a stem with leaves lying on it.
Picture of the band Dopapod performing live on stage
Close-up picture of a cemetery gravestone, with the inscription, “Catharine Huffaker, Born in Germany A.D. 1736, Died in North America A.D. 1812.”
A picture of singer-saxophonist Karl Denson performing on stage, singing into a microphone and holding his saxophone. At the Bijou Theater in Knoxville, Tn, September 7, 2024.