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Monday, November 9, 2009
Wood Our Back Pages: This Week in Print Over the Years
Posted by Tom Wood on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Our Back Pages brings you tidbits of this week in Nashville history from near and far, chronologically speaking.
This edition: Remembering an agent of change at one of the city's most old-fashioned institutions, Montgomery Bell Academy. Also: Stern words for Baptist Hospital, and a new source of tales about Old Nashville.
This edition: Remembering an agent of change at one of the city's most old-fashioned institutions, Montgomery Bell Academy. Also: Stern words for Baptist Hospital, and a new source of tales about Old Nashville.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Wood Our Back Pages: This Week in Print Over the Years
Posted by Tom Wood on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:42 PM
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Our Back Pages brings you tidbits of Nashville history from near and far, chronologically speaking. This edition: Election-eve chicanery in the Corker-vs.-Ford contest, cub reporter Seigenthaler's first major scoop, and Big Government wants to control who gets behind the wheel--if you can imagine.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Wood Our Back Pages: This Week in Print Over the Years
Posted by Tom Wood on Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Our Back Pages brings you tidbits of this week in Nashville history from near and far, chronologically speaking.
This edition: Lower Broad's emergence as a peep-show paradise in the late 1970s, the three-decade saga of that bare patch of ground by the Music Row Roundabout, a millennial view of the restaurant scene, state Dems' botched swipe at a Swift-boater, and a Triple Crown champ's ancestral ties to Belle Meade Plantation.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Wood Our Back Pages: This Week in Print Over the Years
Posted by Tom Wood on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:30 AM
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Our Back Pages brings you tidbits of Nashville history from near and far, chronologically speaking. This inaugural weekly edition features the 1930 travelogue of a Nashville rabbi in the heart of soon-to-be-Nazi Germany, one of Willy Stern's fine investigative reports for the Scene from the 1990s, and the execution in Nashville of a Confederate hero, months after Appomattox.
79 years ago: Encountering an ancient hatred
Rabbi Julius Mark of Nashville's Congregation Ohabai Sholom -- then better known as the Vine Street Temple and now simply as The Temple -- recalled his recent visit to Germany in the Nashville Banner of Oct. 19, 1930.
Mark had attended the Oberammergau Passion Play, held every 10 years in a Bavarian town. There, three years before Hitler's rise to power, he observed the modern population's enthusiasm for a narrative based on a medieval image of the Jew as Christ-killer.
