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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Phillips Plan Your Day Trips Now!

Posted by Betsy Phillips on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM

The Tennessee Historical Society announced yesterday that seven Tennessee sites have been
click to enlarge "See, boys, the object of the game is to hit the balls I throw."
  • "See, boys, the object of the game is to hit the balls I throw."
added to the National Register of Historic Places--and lucky for those of us in Middle Tennessee, they all seem to be within a day trip of us. (Okay, let's be honest, there isn't much in the state that's not within a day trip of us, but that's just one of the nice things about living here.) 1. Conway Bridge, spanning the Nolichucky River between Cocke and Greene counties. 2. Cordell Hull Bridge, over in Carthage. 3. The Daylight Building in Knoxville, which was an early home of TVA offices. 4. Engel Stadium in Chattanooga, where, among other things, Jackie Mitchell struck out Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. 5. First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga 6. The Clarence T. Jones Observatory in, yes, again, Chattanooga 7. The Doctor Wiley Wagner Vaught Office about 5 miles outside of Johnson City, a historic doctor's office. Nashville, this list is great. These places look cool as hell. But where are we on this list? Someone--and I mean you--has dropped the ball. Do you think Jackie Mitchell woke up every day of her life and said, "Eh, Chattanooga is interesting enough without me adding to it?" No, she obviously did not. Go out today and do something significant in an interesting place around town so that the gal who has this job in 50 years can be reporting that that site was added to this list and folks from all over can come and look at it.

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Betsy, since you are interested in historic places and preservation I encourage you and your readers to join Historic Nashville, we host monthly tours of local historic sites (among other activities). We just toured the restored Hodge House in Warner Park, February is the downtown Mason Lodge at 7th and Broadway, and in March we are touring the superbad WSM broadcast studio and tower in Brentwood. Must be a member to attend the tours. www.historicnashvilleinc.org
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Betsy, since you are interested in historic places and preservation I encourage you and your readers to join Historic Nashville, we host monthly tours of local historic sites (among other activities). We just toured the restored Hodge House in Warner Park, February is the downtown Mason Lodge at 7th and Broadway, and in March we are touring the superbad WSM broadcast studio and tower in Brentwood. Must be a member to attend the tours. www.historicnashvilleinc.org
David Price
HNI Board Pres.

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Betsy, since you are interested in historic places and preservation I encourage you and your readers to join Historic Nashville, we host monthly tours of local historic sites (among other activities). We just toured the restored Hodge House in Warner Park, February is the downtown Mason Lodge at 7th and Broadway, and in March we are touring the superbad WSM broadcast studio and tower in Brentwood. Must be a member to attend the tours. www.historicnashvilleinc.org
David Price
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Crap, sorry about the multiple posts!

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David: The first three posts were interesting but repetitive but the last post was excellent!

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