4stories from Tennessee.
Nashville, TN
Nashville’s most beloved listening room began with a man walking into a tent ready to pick a fight. He came in with a chip on his shoulder and left with a building in his imagination.
Memphis, TN
The funny thing about the lobby ducks at The Peabody Memphis wasn’t that they were in the fountain. It was that, for a while, they were famous hotel guests with absolutely no sense of ceremony.
Memphis, TN
The shine of a Cadillac can stop a person cold, especially on a Memphis car lot, where the chrome catches every bit of sun and throws it right back. Mennie L. Person was only looking.
Clinton, TN
In Clinton, Tennessee, the story of school desegregation is not preserved as an abstraction. It has walls, windows, rooms, and a hillside.
