Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

September 25, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones 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…

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Confederate later became Army General

As published by the Daily News Journal, Greg Tucker, Sunday, September 23, 2012 This Confederate raider swept twice through Rutherford County intercepting Union supplies, delaying Union advances and destroying bridges. Thirty-five years later he was a brigadier general in the U. S. Army, commanding a division in the Spanish-American War.…

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Honey Bunny breathes new life into vintage clothing

Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, September 13, 2012 Like a scene from “Gone With the Wind,” Barb Spina, owner of Honey Bunny Antiques, Gifts and Crafts, will use just about anything to make clothes. She even used an old set of drapes to create a reproduction Civil War-era gown. Honey…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

September 12, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with the Albert Gore, Sr. Research Center 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…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

September 11, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones 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…

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Shacklett’s Celebrates 75 Years

Murfreesboro Post, Sunday September 9, 2012 — On a July day in 1935, Dick Shacklett walked into Leo Ferrell’s Photography shop and asked if there was anything he could do. Ferrell offered him a job processing roll film. Sometime between 1936 and 37, at the age of 16, Shacklett became…

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Sims family brings history life

Jonathon Fagan, The Murfreesboro Post, August 30, 2012 Lisa and Larry Sims are known for their revitalization efforts near downtown Murfreesboro, and after nearly a decade of painstaking restoration of their East Main Street home, they are ready to open the doors to supporters of the revitalization program as hosts…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

August 28, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones 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…

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If These Walls Could Talk

MURFREESBORO, DNJ, 8/26//2012 — Maintaining a 165-year-old home is far from easy and not a cheap endeavor. “We’re on the 22nd year of our five-year renovation plan,” jokes Kae Allen, who shares the blue and pink-trimmed Victorian cottage near the corner of Maney Avenue and East Main Street with her…

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