Jazz festival celebrates musical legacy

June 22, 2008 The Tennessean With an act every hour — a total of 11 — musicians kept the party going Saturday at the Jefferson Street Jazz and Blues Festival. Vendors packed the event, displaying their merchandise for customers to see. “We sell by advertising,” said Larry Boyd, pointing to his table of fragrant funnel [...]

Second Harvest cuts mobile food deliveries

June 27, 2008 The Tennessean This is going to be a tough day for Carolyn Pociask. Pociask, the director of missions for the Lascassas Church Food Bank in Rutherford County, has to tell her clients that a mobile food pantry from Nashville will be cutting services in the rural community. “It’s going to be devastating,” [...]

Tennessee State Museum searches for Union flags

Tennessee State Museum curators are trying to solve the Civil War mystery of why it’s so easy to find Confederate flags in the state but not Union. They’re asking Tennesseans to look into their family collections for the flags and pictures of ancestors holding them. Greg Biggs, a renowned Civil War historian and lead author [...]