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What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia?

What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia? What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia? Robert J. Higgs Appalachian Heritage, Volume 24, Number 2, Spring 1996, pp. 30-39 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1996.0027 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436055/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:28 GMT from JHU Libraries What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia? Robert J. Higgs In their first home game for the 1996 season, the University of Tennes- see Volunteers may well be playing in the largest college stadium in the country if plans materialize to expand the current seating capacity of Neyland Stadium of 96,000. Why such a huge "Roman" structure is located in Knoxville, Tennes- see, "the Gateway to the Smokies," is one of the more glaring paradoxes in Appalachia since, judging from the general character of the settlers of the region, the erection of a coliseum was certainly not very high on their list of priorities if present at all in their thinking. They may or may not have known anything about the trouble early Christians, criminals, and animals had in stadia in the ancient world, but they were skeptical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia?

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Appalachian Review , Volume 24 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia? Robert J. Higgs Appalachian Heritage, Volume 24, Number 2, Spring 1996, pp. 30-39 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1996.0027 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436055/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:28 GMT from JHU Libraries What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia? Robert J. Higgs In their first home game for the 1996 season, the University of Tennes- see Volunteers may well be playing in the largest college stadium in the country if plans materialize to expand the current seating capacity of Neyland Stadium of 96,000. Why such a huge "Roman" structure is located in Knoxville, Tennes- see, "the Gateway to the Smokies," is one of the more glaring paradoxes in Appalachia since, judging from the general character of the settlers of the region, the erection of a coliseum was certainly not very high on their list of priorities if present at all in their thinking. They may or may not have known anything about the trouble early Christians, criminals, and animals had in stadia in the ancient world, but they were skeptical

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