So by November 15th, it’s Christmas at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville.So. Much. Christmas.Very impressive nativity scene. Figures are larger than life-size.Entrance foyer at the Opryland Hotel.Jack is here.They dress up all their shops and cafe’s with Christmas names.So they had a Parade of Trees fundraiser going on. Several stars donated trees to be raffled off, with other pretty nice prizes as well. This is the tree donated by Jordan Davis.Donated by Maddie and Tae.Donated by Little Big Town.Donated by Reba McIntyre.Donated by Brad Paisley.Donated by Tyler Hubbard.Donated by Luke Bryan.Donated by Kacey Musgraves.Donated by Keith Urban.Donated by John Pardi.Donated by Sam Hunt.Donated by George Strait.Donated by Alan Jackson.Big tree made of poinsettias.
Covenant Presbyterian Church. We went to worship service here Sunday morning.Beautiful sanctuary. The pipe organ is magnificent.Downtown Nashville. The AT&T building, AKA The Batman Building.Bridgestone Arena, home of the Nashville Predators hockey team.Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, next to Bridgestone Arena.Historic Ryman Auditorium, former home of the Grand Ole Opry.Loretta Lynn statue.Bill Monroe statue.Legends Corner on Broadway. Can you name all of the legends? (Answer at the bottom of this post).So we had lunch at Paula Deen’s. Plenty of country style food. Delicious!Christmas at Bass Pro Shops at Opry Mills Mall.Nissan Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans.Nashville skyline from the west.
The Legends on Legends Corner (left to right): Tim McGraw, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Pride, Blake Shelton, Dierks Bentley, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Johnny Cash, Keith Urban, Merle Haggard, Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson, Luke Bryan, George Strait, Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert and Garth Brooks.
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.
