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VOL. 2, No. 12--"Mother, 2 Daughters Hurt In Bomb Blast" (1960); Nashvillle's first bridge over the Cumberland (1823); "Robbery Of The Express Mail" (1838); "Young People Running Amuck" (1912); "Mistake To Marry Only For Looks" (1937); Andrew Jackson Hotel's "One Last Moment Of Honor" (1971); Civil War articles from June 1861; "Wail Form A Community Of Poor White People" (1911); Six-Toed Kitten (1957); "First In U.S. WIth Hospital Fire Prevention Plan" St. Thomas (1955); "Combo Crazy" by Tom Henderson III; "Remnant of Gray Line Off for Reunion" Confederate veterans (1937); "Sulphur Dell Speedways" by Bill Traughber; "Jewelry Box Bomb" by Larry Brinton; "There's Shock And Sorrow In Church Defacement" Downtown Presbyterian Church (1955); "Mellow Days Of Filmdom's Past Recalled" by Red O'Donnell (1965); "The Strategy in the Jackson-Dickinson Duel" by Paul Clements; "Old Elks Club Stirs Nostalgia" (1971); "The Water's Not So Fine" Red Cross swimming instruction (1955); "Kitchen Kollege Recipes" by Phila Hach; And More.

VOL. 2, No. 11--"The Jackson-Dickinson Duel Revisited: Part I" by Paul Clements; Civil War articles from May 1861; "His Life For A Horse; The Fate A Tramp Met At Franklin" (1876); "Two Drunken White Rowdies" (1907); "Men Shouldn't Wear Fancy Lace Things" (1932); "Al Capone in Nashville on Way to Prison" (1932); "Parthenon Now Open To Public" (1931); "'Davy Crockett' Mobbed in Nashville" (1955); "Stripper Stripped: G-String Stolen, Ora Unstrung" (1956); "Ice Cream Festival At Fair Park" (1956); "Negro Patrolmen Assigned" (1948); "East High Alumni Recall 'Good Times'" (1978); "Edgefield Historic Zone Posses 2nd Reading" (1978); "J. Percy Priest and His Amazing Race" book review by Mike Slate; "When Davy Crockett Came Back To Nashville" by Stanley E. Hime; "'The G.I.'s Champion': The Life of Wilson 'Bud' Lynch" by Tom Henderson III; "Snow Falling Here Wednesday Breaks Record" (1931); "'Diamond Betsy'" by Larry Brinton; "Colonial Dinner Club" by John W. Zuccarello, Jr.; "Night Baseball Makes Bow In Sulphur Dell" by Bill Traughber; and "Kitchen Kollege Recipes" by Phila Hach.; And More.

VOL. 2, No. 10--"Babe Ruth Hits No Homers But Wins Nashville's Boys" (1924); "Legislators Come To Blows" (1905); "Police Called To Quell Rock'n Rollers In Dell" (1959); "Best Part Of Every Woman's Life is Gone When She Is 38" (1941); "Sabbath Breaking" (1804); Civil War articles from April 1861: "Minor Clashes Reported as Maneuvers Open" (1943); "Wind Damage Over City Widespread" Vine Street Temple (1955); "Figure-atively Working" Country Music wax figures (1970); "Twins Deposited" (1838); "5,000 Colored Children and Adults Take Part In Banner Easter Egg Hunt" (1950);"Egg Art" (1973); "Asks Banner To Find Him Good Wife" (1924); "Leap Year" (1804); "The Great San Francisco Quake" by George Zepp; "Coin-Flip Execution" by Larry Brinton; "What's The Matter With The Boat Club?" (1919); "The Early History of Baseball in Nashville" by Paul Clements; "Man's Best Friend" by Tom Henderson III; "30-Story, $12,000,000 Co-Ed Dormitory To Be Built At South End Of Dudley Field" (1966); "Kitchen Kollege Recipes" by Phila Rawlings Hach.; And More.

VOL. 2, No. 9--"'We Made It, Doc, 42 To 40'"; West High basketball wins state championship (1954); "'All The Way For Doc!'" by Paul Clements; "Our Egyptian Mummy" by Tom Kanon; "Skate, Wrestle, & Rock; Remembering The Hippodrome" by Tom Henderson; "'Sing-Out South' Premiere Ignites Audience Approval" (1966); "Fun On Wheels" Roller Skating In East Nashville (1885); Civil War Articles (1861); "'Do Nothing' Constables" by Larry Brinton; "First Lady Stops Here To Tell Husband 'All's Well" On Trip" Eleanor Roosevelt (1938); "Moderate Tremor Rolls Across State" (1976); "State's jobless rate sets records of 12.3% (1982); "New look" at Fairgrounds Speedway (1966); "Former Route Boy Brings Old Extra To Banner Office" (1939); "Blouse Is Found; Dead Woman's?" Drowning victim still unidentified (1976); "VU's 'Babies Under Glass' Wage Easy War On Germs" (1964); "West's Extra Urge" by Fred Russell (1954); "Kitchen Kollege Recipes" by Phila Hach (1954); And More.

VOL. 2, No. 8--"TV Transmission Tower Collapses; 4 Killed" (1957); "Earthquake" (1861); "Roger Williams University" by George Zepp; "Blacks of the Frontier" by Paul Clements; "Saturday at the Y" by Tom Henderson; "The Rabbit" by Larry Brinton; "'Gratitude Train' Accepted By Grateful Tennesseans" (1949); "Wives of 2 City Officials Die In Truck, Train Crash" (1942); "St. Valentine's Day" (1861); "How To Put On Weight, If Desired" (1957); "An Abuse" about kids growing up to quickly in this "fast age" (1857); Civil War Articles (1861); "Party-Goers Enjoy Afternoon At Hippodrome" (1956); "Negro New Reporter Joins Banner" about Robert Churchwell (1950); "Sugar And Spice...Murder And Vice" (1976); Dupont Girls NIL Champions (1956); "An Open Letter" about out-of-shape umpires, by Fred Russell (1936); "City's First All-Pro Basketball Game" (1936); Tennessee State Bowling Tournament (1973); "Kitchen Kollege Recipes" by Phila Hach (1954); And More.

VOL. 2, No. 7-- "The Frozen Cumberland" (1893); "2 Sought In Officer Slaying; Prime Suspects Believed Black Power Advocates" (1968); "Flat Rock Votes To Change Name to 'Woodbine'" (1939); "Coonskin Cap On Capitol For 'Favorite Son' Kefauver" (1952); Civil War Sesquicentennial (1861): "Coercion," "Prices of Negroes," "The Attack on teh Sart of the West," "Southern Rights," "The Banner and Lincoln, Negro Equality and the Cincinnati Gazette"; "The Devil" (1845); "Kisses Are Valuable in Proportion To Their Rarity" (1939); Presbyterian Church fire (1832); "Fathers-To-Be Get Baby Care Training" (1955); "The Tennessee River" by Paul Clements; "Officers Down" by Larry Brinton; "The Soldier and The Coed" by Tom Henderson; "Franklin High School Gutted By Fire" (1956); Television Schedule (1955); "Edgehill Homes X-Ray Project Pays Off" (1955); "Heartfelt Memories of the High Church" by Robert Rogers Chaffin; East vs. Father Ryan basketball (1956); "A Cinch For Extra Thrills" by Fred Russell (1952); And More.

VOL. 2, No. 6-- “Appeals To Old Kriss From Little Folks" (1908); "Teen Rescued From Higgenbotham Cave" (1950); National Negro Doll Company: an editorial exchange (1908); Civil War Sesquicentennial: "To His Excellency, [Gov.] I.G. Harris" (1860); "Accident To The Mail Stage" (1823); "The French and Indian War...In Middle Tennessee?" by Paul Clements; "Uncharitable Behavior" by Larry Brinton; "The Strange Case of Colonel William Shy" by Terry Baker; "Cain-Sloan Co." by George Zepp; "Christmas Mirror" by Tom Henderson, about the Plantation Club and downtown shopping; "Judge a Man's Traits by Way He Drives Car" (1936); "Youngster's Heart Helps Ole Santa" (1957); Litton Lionesses (1964); "Christmas Party Is Event For Stokes School Set" (1955); "Another Christmas 'Miracle'" (1963), Fish University doll refurbishing; Santa's Party at Paramount Theater (1955); "Differences in Customs of the North and South" (1908); "Narcotic Arrests May Reach 1,000" (1934); Downtown Christmas Parade (1955); Dolly and Stella Parton (1973); And more.

VOL. 2, No. 5-- “Vanderbilt Bests Tennessee, 13-7” (1937); “Police Push For Killers Of Stringbean, Wife” (1973); “The Stringbean Murders” by Larry Brinton; “James Robertson: Nashville’s Undersung Hero” by Paul Clements; “The Wagon Wheel” by John Zucarello, Jr., about a 1930s Belle Meade nightclub; “Bus Rides & B-Movies” by Tom Henderson; “Relocation of Metro Archives Will Curtail Its History-Gathering Mission” by Paul Clements; “Modern Diet Maniacs Are Causing Many Divorces” by Dorothy Dix (1936); Railroad bridge accident (1861); Military Police Cases (1864); “Day of Thanksgiving” (1820); “Aeronaut Asphyxiated Beyond The Clouds” (1927) about a fatal altitude record attempt in a balloon that ended up in Sparta; “Franklin Elementary School & Coach L.I. Mills” by Mike Hudgins; Donelson vs. Bellevue in Basketball (1959); Richland Community Bus Line Extension (1941); Kiwanis Armistice Day Ceremony in Centennial Park (1941); And more.

VOL. 2, No. 4-- Sinister Cave Recalls Tales of Bell Witch (1959); Fun Without Destruction Halloween Warning (1938); Tom Robinson, Jr (Larry Brinton) (plus a 1934 article about Robinson’s kidnapping of Alice Speed Stoll); Our Frontier Heritage & Why It Matters (Paul Clements) (The Battle of the Bluff); An 1810 ad for a runaway slave; The Classification-Separation Center (George Zepp) (about the WWII-era housing complex on Thompson Lane); The City’s History & Its Archives Deserve Better (an opinion column by Paul Clements); A Neighborhood School (Tom Henderson) (Woodmont School, Part II); The Paramount Theater (Stanley H. Hime); Shalom Nashville: A Jewish History (book review by Mike Slate); The History of The Tennessee State Fair (Deborah Oeser Cox); Pearl High Tigers football team photo (1959); Father Should Advise Bride On How To Please Husband (1939, Dorothy Dix); Beverly Green obituary (1962); Green Hills Enlargement Protested (1956); Tom Tichenor and Poindexter photo (1954); American Legion Auxiliary Gives Annual Harvest Ball (1937) Starving A Snake Out Of A Man’s Stomach (1858); and more.

VOL. 2, No. 3 -- The 100th anniversary of the Hermitage Hotel; JFK's visit (1960); Police Blotter (Larry Brinton); Freeland's Station (Paul Clements); A Neighborhood School, Part I (Tom Henderson); The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (Terry Coats); Hillbilly Day in Madison (1956); Tremendous Fire! (1848); Princess Grace performs at TPAC opening (1980); The death of a fireman (1903); Nashville Globe editorials about black schools and Glendale Park (1907); The obituary of former slave Marshall Thompson (1938); Broom Vendor's Death Cleared (1929); Bob's Bike Shop; MBA routs Goolettsville in football (1956); and more.

VOL. 2, No. 2 -- Women's suffrage ratification (1920); WSM Carnival TV (1950); Classic Cat II bomb (1979); Ted Rhodes golf Tournament (1968); New and Destructive Gun (1842); Perry March (by Larry Brinton); St. Cecilia Academy (by George Zepp); Riding Bikes (by Tom Henderson); Velocipedes (by Paul Clements); Fred Russell on UT and Vanderbilt football (1950), recipes from Phila Hach; and more.

VOL. 2, No. 1 -- Dutchman's Curve train accident (1918); "Still The Deadliest Train Wreck In American History" (by Betsy Thorpe); Fourth of July At Greenwood Park (1907); "Gray Veterans' Ranks Thinned To 31 in State" (1941); photo of Confederate Soldiers Home; "City's Bathing Pools Closed" (1961); "Central High Alumni Decry Its Demise" (1971); "Child Beggars To Be Checked" (1938); "Boys Require Fight Tactics For Protection" (1950); Union Strike at Se-Ling Hosiery Mill (1941); The Last Will & Testament of Jonathan Jennings (by Paul Clements); Tales From Printers Alley (by George Zepp); The case of Katie Browder Stricklin (by Larry Brinton); Hijinks at the Green Hills Theater (by Tom Henderson); and more.

VOL. 1, No. 12 -- Special coverage of floods in Nashville’s past, from 1793 to 1975 (old articles and an essay by Paul Clements); Morris Frank and the first Seeing Eye dog (1928); Child labor in Nashville (by George Zepp); a trip to Berry Field (by Tom Henderson); the 1977 Maury County Jail fire (by Larry Brinton); “Some Summer Hints” (1889); the city’s first “Gay Pride” demonstration (1977); “Theater Owner Warns of Danger in Pay-To-See-TV” (1955); the Omohundro Water Filter Building (by Bob Allen); Candyland damaged by fire (1957); a 1957 Father’s Day photograph of Vols baseball players and their children; review of Bill Traughber's "Nashville Sports History" (by Mike Slate); and more.

VOL. 1, No. 11 -- "Vanderbilt Boys Stage Tumultuous Scanty Raids" (1952); "A Murder Of The Olden Times" in Franklin (1879); "Two Long Trips Awheel" (bicycling in 1889); "Glendale Elementary's 'May Day' Set (1965); "Potters' Field Claims Another Mary Doe" (1976); Nashville inventor Beverly Gooch "records" picture and sound on plastic tape (1957); "Jarrin John Wins 11th Iroqois" (1952); A Packard Man (by Mark Lambert); Clover Bottom Developmental Center (by George Zepp); The Happiness Club at Belle Meade Theater (by Tom Henderson); Centennial Park Land (by Paul Clements); State Executions (by Larry Brinton); "Meigs Gets Banner Trouphy" (1957); "Council of Jewish Women Elects New Officers" (1957); the closing of the Woodmont golf course; and more.

VOL. 1, No. 10 -- Electric Street Cars Debut (1889); Jesse James in Nashville (1882); "Advice to Girls" (1919); L&C Tower Opens (1957); "Uranium Discovered at Sulphur Dell" (1955); Samurai Sword Death (by Larry Brinton); The Upper Room (by George Zepp); Drive-Ins (by Tom Henderson); The Location of "Fort Nashborough" (by Paul Clements); Colemere Easter Egg Hunt (1956); the Old Hickory "Swinging Bridge" (1919); the Barrow Hill Ghost (1884); picnic at Ward's Seminary (1881); Howard High School bell (1956); Mule Day on the Lebanon Public Square (1919); and more.

VOL. 1, No. 9 -- The 1963 plane crash that killed Patsy Cline and three other Opry stars; “The Hasheesh Eaters,” an 1888 article about opium use in the city; an 1802 article the repeal of “all internal taxes”; 1848 reviews of the model for the Andrew Jackson equestrian statue at the Capitol; “Our Colored Soldiers,” an 1866 editorial about the mistreatment of black Civil Soldiers; last telegraph wires and poles removed (1912); Reminiscence of Demoss Mill in Bellevue (1885); the location of Fort Union (by Paul Clements); St. Thomas Hospital (1957); "Central High School Presents Musical Program" (1941); The Night Asa Brown was Killed (by Andrew J. Farrall); Comic Strip Party at Belle Meade Country Club (1957); Du Pont Elementary and Old Hickory Fire Dept. (1957); Capt. Campbell retires from fire dept. (1956); "Baseball World Mourns Passing of Fay Murray (1941); Charater Witnesses, including Ira North and Arnold Palmer (by Larry Brinton); Kite flying (by Tom Henderson); Gower's General Store (by Herschel Gower); Tennessee State Library and Archives in the Capitol (1940); and more.

VOL. 1, No. 8 -- The Blizzard of '51; the 1960 sit-in demonstrations at downtown lunch counters; Ray Patton relates his experience as a participant; Larry Brinton tells why the Nashville Banner's coverage was scant (and recalls the three Civil Rights-era bombings); the abandonement of Tarbox school in 1960; the 1851 execution of two slaves; a report on Nashville's 1935 crime rate (which was highest in the nation); the 1956 desegragation of city golf courses; a circa 1855 Valentine love letter; The Little Sisters of the Poor, Home for the Aged (by George Zepp); the 1936 razing of Everbright mansion in Franklin; Johnny and Vivian Cash (1957); Carter-Lawrence and Negro History Week (1957); Pioneer medical care (by Paul Clements); a 1957 Fred Russell column; "Kitchen Kollege" recipes; and more.

VOL. 1, No. 7 --The 1957 tornado that struck Belle Meade, Green Hills, Woodbine and Donelson; the “perfect wife” of 1950; the death of Judge Haywood, father of Tennessee history (1827); the death of Hank Williams, “the king of the hillbillies” (1953); Home coal furnaces (by Tom Henderson); Claude Smith, 83-year-old stone mason (1956); a woman “working the beggar racket” in 1889; John Montgomery’s "Nashville Nap" in 1771" (by Mike Slate); Nashville’s first hockey team, the Dixie Flyers (by Bill Traugher); the lost community of Mud Tavern (by Richard R. Neil); Daniel Boone at French Lick (by Paul Clements); Lipscomb vs. Tenn. Tech (1956); the Hermitage Hotel in the late ’60s; and more.

VOL. 1, No. 6 -- The Nativity Scene at the Parthenon (1950s); U.T. Football Blacklisted (1896); Maxwell House Hotel Burns (1961);"Red Grange and Nashville's Frist Pro Football Game (by Bill Traughber); City Symphony Orchestra Debuts (1946); Christmas in Nashville in the 1820s; Spice Round recipe; Courthouse Stories (by Larry Brinton); Fort Negley and St. Cloud Hill (by Terry Baker); Christmas at Stokes and Napier schools in the '50s; Nashville's first Christmas (by Paul Clements); and more.

VOL. 1, No. 5 --The 40th anniversary of the Kathy Jones murder; the 1912 city reservoir break that flooded 8th Ave. South; Z. Alexander Looby criticizes segregated education in 1950; a brief history of “Ham” and other historical labels for blacks by TSU professor Dr. Bobby Lovett; Nashville Characters (by Larry Brinton) -- including “Little Evil” Jacobs, “Big Tussie” Jackson, or “The Foot Stomper”; the lost tradition of burning leaves (by Tom Henderson); the Tennessee Central Railroad (by George Zepp); Daniel Boone, a founding father? (by Mike Slate); Armistice Day 1950; "Teen Etiquette" (1950); A review of George Zepp's "Hidden History of Nashville" (by Mike Slate); Portraits of James Robertson (by Paul Clements); Roy Orbison finishes world tour (1972); the entire Nashville Banner front page from Nov. 22, 1963, with the headline: “President Kennedy Murdered In Texas”; and more.

VOL. 1, No. 4 -- The rare 1833 J. P. Ayres map of Nashville in the centerfold, including engravings of buildings and an essay by James A. Hoobler; the 1847 downtown explosion of a gun powder magazine that damaged the whole city; Belmont Mansion described in 1863 by a 'Yankee scribbler'; Dudley Field's opening day in 1922 (by Bill Traughber), a prison mystery (by Larry Brinton); sculptor William Edmondson (1937); Francis Craig plays WSM opening night in 1925; the Onion Bowl in Belle Meade (by Tom Henderson); Halloween photos from 1968 and 1951; The Blind Builder of Nashville, E.C. Scruggss (1926); Lost Nashville, the Second Presbyterian Church (by Kathy Lauder); Architect Henry C. Hibbs (by Tracey Howerton); Nashborough, French Lick Station, and Bluff Station (by Paul Clements); and more.

VOL. 1, No. 3 -- State Fairgrounds fire (1965); Nashville's first telephone call (1877); Edgefield named (1849); "State To Check Length of Bed Sheets" (1940); "Senator Kennedy Visits State Fair" (1960); 106-year-old ex-slave dies (1950); Nashville's Rebirth and 20th Century Modernization (by John Egerton); the 203-year-old grave of Charles Dickinson, who died in a duel with Andrew Jackson, is located; Claude Jarmen, Jr. and Eakin School (1946); Mother Lost at 1954 State Fair (by Tom Henderson); Fred Russell on the fairgrounds fire (1965); The Jackson-Dickinson Duel (by Paul Clements); Why is Nashville located where it is today? (by Mike Slate); and more.

VOL. 1, No. 2 -- Child Falls Form 7th Floor Window of Hermitage Hotel (1927); enforcing prohibition laws in 1909 (by George Zepp); the 1852 street gunfight of Felix K. Zollicofer and John L. Marling (by Allen Forkum); "Parents Corner Supt. Bass At Glenn School As Negro, White Pupils Talk" (1957); Nashvillian battled Indians, floods, bears in Black Hills (1879); Nashville's Growth, Slavery and Devastation of War (by John Edgerton); "East High Holds Summer Carnival" (1936); the car vandalism of "Zorro" (1959); "Fighting on Gaudalcanal Described by Local Marine" (1943); Francis Baily's 1797 visit to Nashville (by Mike Slate); The Donelson Journal (by Paul Clements); Mrs. Gossett's Kindergarten (by Tom Henderson); "Cause of 'Gentleman Jim Reeves' Plane Crash Sought" (1964); 1925 aerial view of Capitol and downtown Nashville; and more.

VOL. 1, No. 1 -- Premiere Issue; "Time Capsule Placed In Capitol Corner Stone by Freemasons" (1845); "Awe, Disbelief, Joy Mark City's Reaction to Moon Landing" (1969); "'Proud of It': First Colored Drug Store In City Opens" (1866); Report on 1801 Forth of July Celebration on Public Square, attended by James Robertson; The Cumberland Settlements And The Birth of Nashville (by John Edgerton); "July 4th Swimmin' at Cascade Plunge" (1957); "An Eerie Street, An Ancient Creek, An Old Log Home" (by Mike Slate); "Theatrical Adelphi Ended 107-Year Run as Bijou" (by George Zepp); Herbert's Field and Knothole baseball (by Tom Henderson); Fred Russell column (1947); State Capitol Celbrates 150 Years (by James A. Hoobler); Jack Knox cartoon about moon landing (1969); the entire front page of the Nashville Banner on July 21, 1969, featuring the moon landing; and more.