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The Historic Value of the Seigenthaler Bridge (opens the original)
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I read our own Eli Motyckaâs coverage of the planned changes to the Seigenthaler bridge with a growing sense of bemused curiosity. The one thing that can get a place delisted from the National Register of Historic Places is âsubstantial alteration.â And completely altering and extending the eastern approach â as the Titans and the East Bank Development Authority are getting ready to do â would seem like the kind of thing that could lose the bridge its spot on the register. Youâd th
Marsha Blackburn: Doubling Down on More of the Same (opens the original)
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I was reading Sarah Grace Taylorâs Nashville Banner story about Marsha Blackburn wanting to make the electric chair the primary means of executing people in Tennessee â and all I could think about was how this very old person wants to âget tough on crimeâ by electrocuting other old people for evil committed when they were young. And then all I could think about was just how futile and stupid it all is. No young person caught up in a murderous rage has some voice in the back of their hea
More on Rebecca Higgins and Nashville's Sex Workers of the 19th Century (opens the original)
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As I was working on my recent cover story about the 19th-century Nashville proprietor of a house of ill fame, Rebecca Higgins, I came across a great image (which you can see above). Many historians think it features sex workers doing laundry in back of a Civil War hospital here in Nashville. OK, time out. I just realized that, by linking to this picture via the Tennessee State Library and Archives, I risk alerting censorious Secretary of State Tre Hargett and his fellow book black-lister, st
Dolly Parton Was Political (opens the original)
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You know when youâre flying into Nashville at night and the lights of the city look like jewels sparkling on black velvet? How Nashville looks as decked out in rhinestones as any country star ever has been? How fitting it is that our city should sparkle? Iâm not surprised that there is consensus that we should rename the Nashville airport for Dolly Parton. She deserves the honor and it is the one thing in town that we have that is big enough, bright enough and busy enough to properly memori
Which Version of the Ten Commandments Do School Districts Intend to Display? (opens the original)
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LaTonya Turner over at WPLN is reporting that school boards throughout the state, including in Rutherford and Wilson counties, have voted to prominently display the Ten Commandments. Turner writes: The Wilson County School Board made that policy change in July. The vote was unanimous, with some board members stressing that the display is about history not religion, and the Ten Commandments shaped legal and ethical traditions. Whew Lord, Iâd love to know where that's actually the case. Here in
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