I went to the World's Fair that year many times in '82, but I don't remember ever buying the official guidebook. The copy I own now was inherited from my grandparents. It's full of ads and references to institutions from my youth that don't exist anymore: Heritage USA, Hills Stores, Magnavox...

Knoxville may seem like an odd place to host a world's fair, but it is headquarters to the TVA and close enough to Oak Ridge that kids from Knoxville bragged about getting blown up first by the Russkies when the nukes inevitably fell...

In 1982, my hometown of Knoxville hosted an international expo with "energy" as its theme.

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