"Just like the old fashioned coffee named after a famous Nashville hotel, this collection of precious recollections maintains its satisfying flavor to the very end." When you browse through this lovely book of memory and historical reference, you will discover many things about both the author and the city he was raised in, still resides in, and loves dearly. Nashville Nostalgia provides a ...
TAKE A LOOK AT THE OLD SOUTH FROM THE ANGLE OF THE COLLEGE MAN. AS A GRADUATE OF A COLLEGE IN THE DEEP SOUTH, I SAW SO MANY PARALLELS BETWEEN TODAY'S COLLEGE EXPERIENCE AND THE ONES I READ ABOUT IN HALLS OF HONOR. BY CONTRAST, THE VAST DIFFERENCES AND IDIOSYNCRACIES OF COLLEGE LIFE IN THE ...
After the Civil War, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood of 1937, the L&N Railroad remained one of the country's most efficient lines. It is a southern ...
+ This book in Audio format ROCKS !!! + Literate Southerner making his way in the liberal NorthEast
Besides being a brilliant specimen of that endangered species, The White Southern Liberal, Blount is about as funny as any humanoid on the planet. "Long Time Leaving," an anthology of some of his occasional pieces, proves a little repetitious at points (how many times do you need to remind folks ...
+ Very Well Done + Photo Journal is both nostalgic and contemporary
As one born and raised in Nashville, I feel eminently qualified to review this book. The photo quality of the "Now" pages is excellent. The photo quality of the "Then" pages is excellent, considering the age of some of the pictures, such as the one of the capitol building that dates to Civil War ...
Wow, was I impressed with this book when it arrived! I'm not sure whether to call this a history book, or a tour book, but in any case, it amply does the job of both. All bases are covered, the importance of Nashville during the Civil War, the campaigns that led up to and followed the battle, the ...
Ghosts of Hank, Sr. and Elvis. What could be better?
+ A great book
I buy and read books about ghosts on a fairly regular basis and have found that there is seldom a proper balance between the ghost story itself and the history of the possible haunt. Some authors breeze along with one ghost story after another never quite giving the reader any real idea of what ...
First of all, I like ghost stories rooted in history and place. All 25 stories in this collection are wonderful examples of folklore and of the people of the Cumberland and Blue Ridge mountains of Tennessee. You can almost touch the trees in the forest and hear the water moving over rocks. Did ...
This book was written it seemed just for me! This book has been my manual ever since I opened the box. I take this book right to heart! I took the quiz and I came out as someone with a lot of potential, but needed some more polishing, and guess what? I am using my potential and my life is great! I ...
If you haven't read the Sweet Potato Queens you are missing out.
+ Laughs galore!
Fun take on life from a woman's perspective, great recipes and the straight skinny on how to get men to behave. If you haven't read the Sweet Potato Queens you are missing out on a good time and some great advice on men and life in general.
+ Better Book about the Case of the Missing Wife! + "Perry March's 15 Minutes of Infamy"
After moving from Nashville, I continued to keep up with this case through Nancy Grace and 48 Hours Mysteries. Glasgow and Gobbell dramatically portray the story of Janet March who was an intelligent, attractive woman from a great family who was deceived by a narcissistic, evil man. I realize that ...
Excellent portrayal of an infamous or famous area in Nashville, Tenessee, depending on your degree of snobbishness. The Lower Broad Street area has bars restaurants and amusements for everyone. There are pictures of one of the oldest and more notorious establishments in Nashville, "Tootsie's ...
The Plan of Nashville is a community-based vision of how the urban core of Nashville should look and work in the 21st century. The purpose is to help the central city hold its place in civic life.Since Nashville assumed a metropolitan form of government—merging city and county—there have been almost a hundred plans that dealt with some aspect of the center city. This plan is different.The Plan ...
If Langston Huges is the poet laureate of Jazz, then Albert Murray is its scribe. Murray's indelible style continues in this wonderful trip down South. Murray grew up in Mobile, Alabama, after high school he went to Tuskegee Institute then on to the military where he was the first black to ...
As a Southern Woman writer, Elizabeth Spencer explores the issues familiar to her during her childhood and her adult life in this intricate novel. Race, friendship, loyalty, secrecy, and contradiction all make this novel's characters come alive in a way I have seldom experienced in a first-time ...
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