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The Human Spirit, Hope and What Matters Most

Sep 06, 2022 at 10:45 am by Paulette Jackson 4

Sgt. Foley: “I want your D.O.R.!” “You’re out!” Zack: “Don’t you do it! I GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO!” The 1982 film,&n.... Read More

MTSU Illinois Jacquet Jazz Festival coming in April

Mar 09, 2022 at 06:42 am by Voice Wire

The 2022 MTSU Illinois Jacquet Jazz Festival is taking place at MTSU campus on April 2 for high school students and general public. The festival honors the legacy of te.... Read More

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Chatterbox: Mary Wade's legacy of strength and kindness

Feb 22, 2022 at 06:38 am by Collier 1

February is Black History month and we recently celebrated School Board recognition week creating an excellent excuse to talk to my friend and civic leader, Mary McKnight Wade.... Read More

Why Historic Cemeteries Need Protection

Feb 09, 2022 at 05:57 am by robmtchl 2

Did you know? Nashville/Davidson County has a program to protect the 465 cemeteries they have identified in their county? Being a metropolitan for of government grants.... Read More

Kira Duke, education specialist at Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Historic Preservation

MTSU’s Center for Historic Preservation lands $43K grant for WWII on Tennessee Homefront research

Oct 14, 2021 at 10:00 am by Voice Wire

It should come as no surprise that social studies is the favorite subject of MTSUCenter for Historical Preservation staff member Kira Duke. “I loved stories of the past.... Read More

Rapid Development May Encroach on Historic Cemeteries

Aug 06, 2021 at 10:45 am by robmtchl 12

The people who lived before us are often just beneath our feet, even if their tombs are sometimes forgotten. Lost under urban development, they are rediscovered when a subway.... Read More

Tennessee Has Grants to Protect Historic Properties

May 24, 2021 at 10:54 am by robmtchl

Preserving our past for future generation is vitally important. Recognizing the impact of historic properties to a community is more important now than ever. Recently the Tenn.... Read More

Convenient Fictions

Aug 20, 2020 at 12:10 pm by Paulette Jackson 1

Some years ago, a woman with whom I went to church, gave me a stack of newspapers she had saved, which included articles written by Southern Agrarian, Donald Davidson. Her hus.... Read More

How Tennessee became the last state needed for Women's suffrage

Aug 18, 2020 at 04:53 pm by Michelle Willard

100 years ago today, Tennessee became the 36th state needed for passage of the 19th Amendment. That means without the help of the men in the Tennessee General Assembly women.... Read More

Signing the Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull

MTSU's Van West plans commemoration of Declaration of Independence signing

May 07, 2020 at 08:28 am by Voice Wire

While our nation grapples with one of its most baffling crises of recent years, an MTSU professor is making plans to celebrate the bedrock principles that keep the country int.... Read More

MTSU students dig for the past at Fort Negley Park

MTSU students dig in at Fort Negley Park

Jan 02, 2020 at 12:00 pm by Voice Wire

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — MTSU students are unearthing an important chapter in Nashville history and American history — one small plot at a time. Actually, And.... Read More

Local couple wants to turn Marymont Mansion into a wine bar

Jul 09, 2019 at 02:58 pm by Michelle Willard

Marymont Mansion may be getting a new lease on life. Local couple Jeff and Sherris Brown want to turn the historic house into Black Crow Wine Bar. Built in the 1860s, the.... Read More

Crime Stoppers offers reward for arrest of monument vandal

Mar 15, 2019 at 11:50 am by Lisa Marchesoni

Crime Stoppers of Rutherford County offers a reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who vandalized the Johnny Rebel Confederate monument Tuesday on the dow.... Read More

Remembering Heroes on Sept. 11: The Tough People That Do

Sep 10, 2018 at 08:00 am by Paulette Jackson 2

He pours it black every morningthen thumbs through the classifiedsIt seems there ain't no catchin' a breakSince the job market took a diveThe rough and tumble can knock you to.... Read More

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