Wekcome to AllDeaf, Altotwo!
Yes, there are at least five members here from the Knoxville area. Only two I know are deaf. At least three other members reside in Tennessee outside Knoxville/eastern Tennessee. I wouldn't feel right to identify them here without asking them first (I am not in touch with any of them).
Have you heard of a deaf gathering held in the "Old City" section of downtown Knoxville? Their website address is:
Knoxville Deaf Network.org - for some reason the website is partly censored here.
I grew up in the Knoxville area (Loudon County, where most of my family still live). I attended TSD as a day student though I haven't been back to TSD the time I graduated from there (in the 1990s).
My mother and her husband (my step-father) recently went to Sevier County (S'ville/GB/PF) last Friday with their friends and stayed there for the week-end. They really enjoyed it very much away.