I appreciate how the planners of the Nashville Public Library honored the past in their design, not only in its historic murals and copper relief panels, but also with plaques once on display in the previous downtown Nashville library, which…
On Monday and Tuesday, we enjoyed having a guest at Notgrass History. Seth Dunham came to give us some ideas and training. Having him come was a delight, and the visit reminded me of a post I wrote about Seth…
In 1957, three years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated classrooms to be unconstitutional, Thelma Jean Mothershed and other brave black students volunteered to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Thelma Mothershed and the other students came…
Before railroads, before planes, before Interstates, America’s network of rivers provided the means for rapid, long distance travel. Riverboats became common modes of transportation in the early 1800s. Even into the early 1900s, Tennessee’s rivers were vital links for many…
If you see Ray and me out and about, please say hello. Thank you, Rebecca, for doing that on Thursday. What fun that was for us! Ray and I met longtime friends Mike and Karen in Nashville before heading downtown…
In 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, a baby boy was born into an African American family (I’ll call him Keith). While he was still a boy, his mama discovered that her husband was a bigamist with a second family. The couple divorced and…
