{"id":9667,"date":"2015-10-04T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2015-10-04T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T16:57:07","slug":"humorist-sam-venable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/humorist-sam-venable\/","title":{"rendered":"Humorist Sam Venable at UT Libraries, Oct. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Venable, humorist and long-time columnist for the <em>Knoxville News Sentinel<\/em>, will be the guest speaker and honoree Thursday, October 15, at the University of Tennessee&#8217;s John C. Hodges Library. Venable recently donated his papers to the UT Libraries. <\/p>\n<p>The Library Society of the University of Tennessee invites the public to spend an evening with Knoxville&#8217;s best-known jokester. A reception begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Jack E. Reese Galleria, followed by Venable&#8217;s remarks at 6:30 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested at <a href=\"http:\/\/s.lib.utk.edu\/samvenable\">s.lib.utk.edu\/samvenable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Venable began writing for the <em>Knoxville News Sentinel<\/em> in 1970. He was the newspaper&#8217;s outdoors editor for 15 years and metro columnist for almost 30 years. He retired in 2014, but he continues to write a twice-weekly column for the front page of the <em>News Sentinel<\/em>. He is the author of 12 books and the recipient of numerous journalism awards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/files\/2015\/10\/SamHome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/files\/2015\/10\/SamHome.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2015\/10\/SamHome.jpg 800w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2015\/10\/SamHome-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2015\/10\/SamHome-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2015\/10\/SamHome-322x121.jpg 322w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2015\/10\/SamHome-521x195.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Venable, humorist and long-time columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel, will be the guest speaker and honoree Thursday, October 15, at the University of Tennessee&#8217;s John C. 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The Library Society of the University of Tennessee invites the public to spend an evening with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/humorist-sam-venable\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Humorist Sam Venable at UT Libraries, Oct. 15 - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/humorist-sam-venable\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Humorist Sam Venable at UT Libraries, Oct. 15 - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sam Venable, humorist and long-time columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel, will be the guest speaker and honoree Thursday, October 15, at the University of Tennessee&#8217;s John C. 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