Joel Ebert, The Tennessean, March 2, 2016 One day after the top two leaders in Congress rebuked Republican front-runner Donald Trump for his slow disavowal of a former Ku Klux Klan leader, the Tennessee state Senate approved a bill making it more difficult to remove statues or monuments named after controversial figures, sending the…
March 1, 2016, WGNS Radio Today Truman visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones…
The Daily News Journal, February 27, 2016 MURFREESBORO — Tickets are on sale for the annual Willie McGowan Banquet, with this year’s event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the efforts to preserve Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center. With a theme of “Honoring the Legacy of Our Unsung Heroes,” this…
Local historians – if you failed to attend the first or second Forrest Hall forums, you missed an opportunity to uphold the belief that history isn’t black, history isn’t white – history is read. Wednesday night’s forum, the second forum of three, was held at Rutherford County’s Lane AgriCenter on John…
Feburary 23, 2016, WGNS Radio Today Truman visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones…
Susan Harber, Daily News Journal, February 21, 2016 Mary Elizabeth “Bettie” Ridley Blackmore is an intriguing historical figure. She is both a courageous and tragic character, who met an untimely death in 1864 at age 32. Bettie was born in 1832 in Rutherford County and was one of seven living…
Frank Caperton, Friends of the Stones River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, February 20, 2016 Saturday witnessed a grand celebration of the contribution of the USCT (United States Colored Troops) make during the War Between the States and a continuation of the celebration of the community once known as Cemetery.
Greg Tucker, Murfreesboro Post, February 18, 2016 President Abraham Lincoln‘s proclamation on Jan, 1, 1863, did not free slaves in Rutherford County, or anywhere else in Tennessee. Compared to other sections of the South, Rutherford County had few large plantations relying on slave labor in the years before the Civil…
Feburary 17, 2016, WGNS Radio Today Truman visits with Michael Doubler, great grandson of uncle Dave Macon. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford…
Feburary 16, 2016, WGNS Radio Today Truman visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones…