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PANEL SEVENTEEN

Moving Beyond Knoxville: TVA and Norris Dam*

SCHWARZENBACH: “Even though, at Norris Dam, two giant generators produce electricity and rejuvenate that stretch of land; even though the displays in the TVA windows convey to every visitor what wellplanned and intelligent willpower can achieve when it fights poverty and backwardness; even though a new vision of a better life is created, one does not need to venture far within Knoxville to find its shadowy side.panels seventeen and eighteen It feels like bitter irony that in Knoxville, only 30 miles away from Norris Dam, there are entire quarters that have neither electricity nor running water. A ring of such dark quarters surrounds Knoxville, just like it does in each and every other factory town in the South.”

*NOTE: Panels Seventeen and Eighteen are meant to be viewed together, as an example of the similar impressions had by Schwarzenbach, McCarthy, and Buddy and The Huddle.

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PANEL SEVENTEEN

Moving Beyond Knoxville: TVA and Norris Dam*

literary knox exhibit SCHWARZENBACH: “Even though, at Norris Dam, two giant generators produce electricity and rejuvenate that stretch of land; even though the displays in the TVA windows convey to every visitor what wellplanned and intelligent willpower can achieve when it fights poverty and backwardness; even though a new vision of a better life is created, one does not need to venture far within Knoxville to find its shadowy side. It feels like bitter irony that in Knoxville, only 30 miles away from Norris Dam, there are entire quarters that have neither electricity nor running water. A ring of such dark quarters surrounds Knoxville, just like it does in each and every other factory town in the South.”

panels seventeen and eighteen

*NOTE: Panels Seventeen and Eighteen are meant to be viewed together, as an example of the similar impressions had by Schwarzenbach, McCarthy, and Buddy and The Huddle.

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...the journey seems to me less an adventure and a foray into unusual realms than a concentrated likeness of our existence: residents of a city, citizens of country, beholden to a class or a social circle...

— Annemarie Schwarzenbach —