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Wedding dress exhibit showcases love from the past

Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, January 13, 2013 While once again preparing for the wedding dress exhibition at Oaklands Historic House Museum, I reached up into the closet and carefully opened the tattered box containing the wedding dress belonging to my grandmother Nena Verelle White Shacklett.  One can only…

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Musician’s talent started with mother’s prayer

Dan Whittle, The Murfreesboro Post, January 13, 2013 While musician Billy Yearwood was in his mother’s womb 85 years ago, she prayed, asking God for a musician son. “While pregnant, Mother prayed for a boy,” Yearwood shared. Irene Rice Yearwood’s prayer then got “specific” regarding what kind of music. “She…

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Readyville home to receive historical marker

Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, January 3, 2013 At its winter marking, the Rutherford County Chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities will place a marker Sunday, Jan. 6, at the “The Corners,” in Readyville. The marking will be followed from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. by…

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Part 2: Battle of Murfreesboro

As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Shirley Farris Jones, Special to the Post, December 30, 2012 The Confederates soldiers were gone – many of whom would never see their homes and families again. Murfreesboro was forever changed and with the new  year a new era had begun for our town…

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Part 1: Battle of Murfreesboro

As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Shirley Farris Jones, Special to the Post, December 27, 2012 Part one in a three-part series on the Battle of Stones River and its aftermath. Whether you’re engaged directly in hand-to-hand combat or dealing with the hardships of indirect warfare, the fight for survival…

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Author pens electrifying children’s book

Ken Beck, The Murfreesboro Post, December 20, 2012 Woodbury’s Connie Foster took a small chapter from her father’s youth and put an optimistic spin to it to produce a fictional children’s book surrounding the 200-year-old Readyville Mill. Titled “The Readyville Mill,” the 34-page book, illustrated by Carl Carbonell of historic…

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Lady Raiders reflect on impact of Title IX

David Hunter, The Murfreesboro Post, December 9, 2012 While the Lady Raider athletic program has enjoyed recent success winning several conference titles and advancing to the NCAA tournament in all sports, the former players who helped pave the way were honored at halftime Thursday during the game against Xavier. Former…

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Faith drives passion for higher education

Ralph Vaughn, The Murfreesboro Post, December 2, 2012 Dennis and Ralph Tramel, of Murfreesboro, have fond memories of their father who was a longtime Methodist minister. Being a man of the cloth, Ernest McKinley Tramel took his calling seriously and accepted the fact that moving regularly was all part of…

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Sweet dreams of Ole Taylor’s Candy Kitchen

Ken Beck, The Murfreesboro Post, December 2, 2012 For 35 years, 68-year-old Eddy Taylor nurtured the biggest sweet tooth in Rutherford County – his own. Across four decades, however, there were thousands who showed up at his family’s candy shop to soothe their sugar fixes. They did not go away…

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Months leading up to historic battle offered brief joy

Shirley Farris Jones, The Murfreesboro Post, November 25, 2012 As Thanksgiving Day approached and the good folks of Murfreesboro began their preparations, they had much to celebrate and more to be thankful for than they might have imagined just a few months prior. Deep down, most Confederate sympathizers knew their…

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