

Museum of Appalachia Restaurant
You mean to tell me…there’s an entire museum…dedicated to us??” my friend asked incredulously. This is what I mean to tell you…there’s an entire museum dedicated to us, to all those who came before us, and to all those who will come after us…here in this paradoxical world of the Mountain South. The Museum of Appalachia, about 16 miles North and a couple hundred years away from modern day Knoxville, in the small community of Norris, TN, began as the dream of John Rice Irwin