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Smokey Joe to Music Row, NPT Sifts Through History of Nashville ‘In Photographs' from 30s to 50s

Monday, 17 May 2010
Second installment in 'Nashville: The 20th Century in Photographs' series traces city from after the depression, through World War II, the rise of suburbs and the beginning of Music Row NASHVILLE, Tennessee – May 17, 2010 – Twenty years before Nashville became known in the nation as "Music City, U.S.A.," it was derided by its locals as Smokey Joe. "Walking down Broadway in the 30s, you would see a lot of coal soot," says James Hoobler, Senior Curator, Art & Architecture, Tennessee State Museum. "Nashville was still burning anthracite and the soot was everywhere." Together with the soot spewing out of the engines of trains at Union Station, according to Hoobler, Nashville had a pall over it. So much soot covered Nashville, adds Sally Ellner Brunson Scott and Tom P. Henderson III, that "they called Nashville Smokey Joe because you couldn't see the city." Though the city continued to struggle with its air quality for a number of years, by the mid-1950s, Nashville was a completely different city. Hoobler, Scott and Henderson are just a few of the Nashvillians interviewed, and photos of the transformation of Broadway are just a snapshot of the hundreds culled through and gathered, for the second installment of Nashville Public Television's documentary series "Nashville: The 20th Century in Photographs," premiering on Thursday, June 3, and encoring on Sunday, June 6, both at 7:00 p.m. on NPT-Channel 8. Volume Two of the series picks up where Volume One left off, with Nashville crawling out from under the Great Depression and celebrating the completion of the permanent Parthenon in Centennial Park. The end of the 30s would see citywide progress as a result of The New Deal and the Works Progress Administration, the development of the airport at Berry Field, and a thriving rail business at Union Station. Photographs from the archives of The Tennessean, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Library of Congress and more tell the story.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 06 October 2010 )
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Public Invited to ‘Healing the Hidden Wounds’ Symposium at Fort Campbell on May 11 and 12

Friday, 07 May 2010

*** Event offers an unprecedented opportunity to glimpse the world through a returning soldier's eyes and gain an understanding of the challenges of reintegration, PTSD traumatic brain injury. ***

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — April 29, 2010 — “Healing the Hidden Wounds,” a two-day symposium to raise awareness of available post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resources for active military, veterans and families, welcomes outside mental health providers, educators, military families and service personnel on May 11 and 12, 2010 at Cole Park Commons at Fort Campbell, KY. The event, co-presented by Nashville Public Television (NPT), National Alliance on Mental Illness - Tennessee (NAMI) and Fort Campbell, is free and open to the public. Due to base access restrictions, participants and media must register in advance at www.namitn.org and click on the “Healing the Hidden Wounds” logo.

Attendees at the event will experience the world renowned state-of-the-art resources being used through the warrior recovery unit at Fort Campbell, and get to step into a soldier's shoes in the Warrior Experience Tour. Keynote speakers for event are COL Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist, Director, Behavioral Health Proponency; and Brigadier General Richard W. Thomas, Assistant Surgeon General for Force Projection.

The symposium will also include segments of the forthcoming PBS documentary, “The Misunderstood Epidemic: Depression ,” an intimate look at how depression affects its victims and their families. It airs on NPT-Channel 8, Monday, May 17, 2010 at 9:00pm.

WATCH A CLIP OF "THE MISUNDERSTOOD EPIDEMIC: DEPRESSION"

“Please join NPT in this effort to recognize, acknowledge and promote treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at this extraordinary event at Fort Campbell,” said Beth Curley, president and CEO, NPT “We hope this event will offer a rare glimpse into the experiences and subsequent wounds; some seen, some unseen of military personal returning from areas of live combat and conflict. We are honored to partner with Fort Campbell and NAMI TN.”

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 08 June 2010 )

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