The Nashville Sounds might have played over Civil War soldiers’ unmarked graves at their old stadium. Nashvillians may have even tread over the graves of 19th-century cholera victims. In honor of Halloween, we’ve uncovered some spooky tales and frightening events…
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Nashville Firefighters Honor 9/11 Heroes
Firefighters from Tennessee and Kentucky climbed the William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower Sunday in memory of the 343 firefighters who died on September 11, 2001 in New York City. Participants of the climb wore their full firefighting gear. “It’s probably…
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Remembering the Horror of Hiroshima
The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-48, ended with the Treaty of Westphalia. That was one of the great events in Western history. It lasted until the summer of 1864. The Thirty Years’ War shook Europe to its core. Prior to that…
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Remembering the Errors of Darwinism
For one sweltering week in July 1925, the nation’s newspapers and their sharp-edged pundits, including the sharpest of them, H.L. Mencken, focused on the small town of Dayton, Tenn. Ninety years ago come July 10, two of the 20th century’s…
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This Is What Nashville Looked Like in 1985
If you’re a new resident of Nashville, you may be tired of hearing people say how much the city has changed. Nashville photographer Hank Devito documents in pictures how Nashville has changed since 1985. “Well, you look at the photos,…
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‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Latest Victim of Cultural Cleansing
As the Confederate flag continues to make headlines following the nine murders inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a 21-year-old white supremacist, TV Land has now pulled ’80s sitcom “The Dukes of Hazzard” from…
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Feds Remove Confederate Flag from Civil War Sites
Workers at Antietam National Battlefield took Confederate flags, T-shirts and magnets off gift shop shelves Thursday as the National Park Service announced plans to stop selling some items with the increasingly controversial symbol. Park service officials said they would stop…
Read MoreWhen Murfreesboro Was the State Capital
When I research William Reade Rucker, the term ‘honorable’ always comes to mind. At age 30, William was mayor of Murfreesboro from 1822 to 1823 in an exciting day when our town was state capital of Tennessee; and all was…
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Nashville Has a New WW2 Memorial
The rain on Memorial Day did not stop a Greenbrier family from paying respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice during World War II. Amber Franklin thought it was important that her 7-year-old daughter Teagan and their friend Kailey…
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Do Memorial Day Right This Year
Memorial Day is an opportunity for us to remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in our country’s armed forces. But the origins of Memorial Day provide a powerful suggestion as to how we can truly demonstrate…
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