The Murfreesboro Post, March 1, 2015 The Sam Davis Home is now taking reservations for Teddy Bear Tea and Young Ladies Tea, set to take place March 2015. The Sam Davis Home is now taking reservations for Teddy Bear Tea and Young Ladies Tea, set to take place March 2015.…
Scott Broden, Daily News Journal, February 22, 2015 “We as a community would want every property to have the maximum potential for redevelopment,” said Sam Huddleston, an environmental engineer for the Murfreesboro government. The city has had other factories joining Chromalox in getting torn down through the years, including General…
MTSU professor, school plan research on campus history By Mealand Ragland-Hudgins, Daily News Journal, February 8, 2015 MURFREESBORO — Educators at Middle Tennessee State University and Central Magnet School are working to develop an exhibit highlighting the history of Central’s East Main Street campus. MTSU history professor Brendan Martin got…
Daily News Journal, Brian Wilson, February 16, 2015 Michelle Eastman needed to stop by the Milton post office one afternoon last week, but knew she had limited time to do so. The community post office with its original P.O. Boxes and wooden front is only open two hours each weekday.…
By Nancy De Gennaro, Daily News Journal, February 5, 2015 MURFREESBORO — Black History Month will be recognized in a variety of ways in the coming weeks. Quiz bowl As a friendly competition among middle school and early high school youth, the annual Black History Quiz Bowl will be held…
Brian Wilson, Daily News Journal, January 29, 2015 READYVILLE – The 13-mile move from Murfreesboro seemed short enough for Goodness Gracious restaurant owner Karen Ford. But three years after she and her husband moved to a historic Readyville home, turned it into The Corners at the River event space and…
The Daily News Journal, By Michelle Willard, January 31, 2015 MURFREESBORO — Middle Tennessee’s past was present Thursday night at the inaugural meeting of the Rutherford County Archaeological Society as local history buffs gathered to hear from an MTSU professor. Rutherford County has a rich history and prehistory, organizer Laura…
BLACK HISTORY MONTH Bradley hosts conversations, music and photo exhibit The Daily News Journal , January 29, 2015 MURFREESBORO — Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center, 415 S. Academy St., is hosting events during February in observation of Black History Month. The month-long celebration features discussions of Brown v. The Board…
Daily News Journal, January 17, 2015, Scott Broden SMYRNA – Martin Luther King Jr. completed his march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to speak with protection from National Army Guardsmen such as Dub Raborn. “That was the most intense time,” Raborn recalled. “There were a lot of spectators, and some…
Daily News Journal, January 17, 2015, Michelle Willard MURFREESBORO – When a soldier volunteers for the United States Armed Forces, the government makes one promise above all others, to leave no man behind. But that wasn’t the case in the the 19th century when more than 1,700 American soldiers died…