Ever pick up a copy of the Nashville Retrospect? It was Ridley's pick for the "Best New (Old) Newspaper" in 2009's Best of Nashville issue, and it features reprints of stories past from the Tennessean, the Banner and other Nashville news archives. Pieces in the Retrospect range from charming and humorously dated human-interest stories to genuinely heartrending tales of long-forgotten tragedy. I hadn't picked up a copy until I happened across the Christmas issue a couple of weeks ago, and I found myself enthralled with these pieces, some of which were over a century old. I was pleasantly surprised to find the "Breaking News" piece shown at left about "hillbilly star" Hank Williams' death, which ran in the Nashville Banner on New Year's Day, 1953. Follow the jump to see the rest of the story.
