Friday night in Nashville…Grand Ole Opry.Mark Wills.Emily Ann Roberts. Beautiful song, “The Building”.John Conlee.Brothers Osborne.Brothers Osborne.Connie Smith.Jason Eady.Oak Ridge Boys. “Elvira”!
The Tennessee State Capitol was completed in 1859.Statue of Andrew Jackson on the grounds of the state capitol. Tennessee was home to three presidents – Jackson (7th), James K. Polk (11th) and Andrew Johnson (17th).President James K. Polk and First Lady Sara Polk are buried on the grounds of the state capitol.Statue of President Andrew Johnson.Liberty Bell replica.Senate chamber.House chamber.Tennessee State Supreme Court chamber.Portrait of significant Tennesseans.Andrew Jackson.Andrew Jackson. He is so popular he gets two busts in the capitol!Andrew Jackson.James K. Polk.James K. Polk.Andrew Johnson.Andrew Johnson.David Crockett, Tennessee native and hero of the Alamo.Cordell Hull, the longest-serving Secretary of State in US history. He served for 11 years under President Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II.Sampson W. Keeble, first African American elected to the Tennessee state legislature.
This is the only fill-scale replica in the world of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The original was completed in 438 BC, and was a temple to the goddess Athena. The Parthenon is considered the pinnacle of Classical Greek architecture. This replica was built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.Statue of the goddess Athena.The statue in Athena’s hand is Nike, and it is 6’4″ tall. Looks small in this scale!The serpent.The shield.Back side of the shield.Literature from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897.The lower level contains several paintings on display. Here is The Wreck, 8152, Frederic Edwin Church, oil on canvas.Autumn in the Catskills, 1871, Sanford Robinson Gifford, oil on canvas.Mount Tamalpais, 1873, Albert Bierstadt, oil on canvas.The New Dress, 1874, Edwin Blashfield, oil on canvas.Rab and the Girls (Over the Hills), 1875, Winslow Homer, oil on canvas.Town Pond – Easthampton, 1901, Thomas Moran, oil on canvas.Northeasterly Gale, undated, Paul Dougherty, oil on canvas.Birches and Pines, undated, George Gardner Symons, oil on canvas.
Sunday in Nashville. After early morning church, we headed to Broadway, “Honky Tonk Highway”. How many honkytonks can we do in one afternoon?First, Robert’s Western World has a live Gospel Sing at 10:30 on Sunday mornings. Very enjoyable.#2. Then, to Mellow Mushroom for lunch, and of course, live music!#3. Alan Jackson’s Good Times Bar.#4. Nudies Honky Tonk.#5. Honky Tonk Central.#6. Jason Aldean’s.#7. Luke Bryan’s.#8. Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk.#9. John Rich’s Redneck Riviera.#10. Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa. Ten Honky Tonks in one afternoon!Goo Goo Bars are based in Nashville.Broadway.Printers Alley.
Country Music Hall of Fame building, neat architecture.Timely visit to this museum two days after visiting the Birthplace of Country Music in Bristol.There are many displays like this throughout the museum. Country music stars’ outfits, instruments and other memorabilia. Here are artifacts from Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams.Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wanda Jackson, Elvis Presley and Everly Brothers.Elvis’ jacket.Elvis’ Gold-Plated 1960 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine.Key country music stars and their instruments.Bill Monroe is considered the father of bluegrass music.Grandpa Jones and Lulu from the Hee Haw set.An Elvis gold record.Chris Stapleton won the Male Artist of the Year from the Academy of Country in 2022, so there was a very large display of his items. Here I just show 3 pictures.Chris Stapleton’s high school memorabilia.Some of his equipment.The 1980 Pontiac Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit II, Shania Twain outfit.Taylor Swift guitar and dress.Luke Combs jacket.Jerry Lee Lewis was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2022.
