Listen It’s often easy to tell how old someone is based on the earliest major event they can remember — and for some first graders at Carroll Oakland School in Lebanon, the rare solar eclipse may be that moment.
For Young Middle Tennessee Students, The Solar Eclipse May Become Their Earliest Memory In School
Listen: Here’s What The Solar Eclipse Sounded Like In Middle Tennessee
We’ve seen plenty of photos of what the total solar eclipse looked like — but what did it sound like? Fortunately, WPLN reporters were scattered throughout Middle Tennessee, recorders in hand, to find out. From the eerie pre-eclipse shadows, to the first glimpses of totality, to the sun reappearing, the experience was as aural as […]
Eclipse Live Blog: Watching With Nashville
This post will be updated throughout the day as WPLN reporters observe the eclipse and the crowds gathered to enjoy it. Newest info will be up top.
Metro Schools Offering $6K Signing Bonuses For Hard-To-Fill Jobs
Listen Metro Schools is offering as much as $6,000 in signing bonuses to help fill more than 100 lingering teacher vacancies, two weeks into the semester. The district has been quietly using bonuses all summer on a case-by-case basis but now wants more job candidates to know about them.
TPAC Bets On A Musical Of Songs From 1970s Soft Rocker Dan Fogelberg
Listen Theatergoers who walked out of the Broadway hit Mamma Mia! singing Abba songs may be in for another good time. In the same way that show cleverly used familiar old songs to tell an original story, a new musical does the same, using well known songs of the late Dan Fogelberg.
StoryCorps Nashville: Vietnam Veteran Recounts His First Airstrike And A Trigger-Happy Co-Pilot
Listen Darrel Kilburn headed off to Vietnam right after college. He was a helicopter gunship pilot- often tasked with flying over dangerous territory and patrolling for enemy combatants. Now in his 70’s, the retired Army Colonel still remembers one of his first experiences facing enemy gunfire while flying with a new co-pilot. What could have […]
How The Insides Of Col. Tom Parker’s House Became A Stunning Portrait Of Elvis
In a portrait of a young Elvis Presley, painted by Nashville-area artist Wayne Brezinka, there’s something odd going on in that trademark pompadour — 40 years after the superstar’s death. The three-dimensional hair is striped with green, yellow, blue, red and white wires. Those wires were ripped from a 1950s-era phone system in the home and office […]
Austin Peay Researchers Will Observe How Crickets And Cattle Behave During Solar Eclipse
Listen One of the universities closest to the center of totality will document how animals on campus will react to the sudden darkness of Monday’s total solar eclipse. Researchers from Austin Peay State University’s agriculture department will record observations on university cattle, bees and crickets.
Lawsuit Accuses White County Officials Of Running ‘Modern-day Eugenics Scheme’
Listen Attorneys are accusing White County and several of its leaders of having run a “modern-day eugenics scheme.” They filed a federal lawsuit Thursday over a controversial program that offered reduced misdemeanor sentences to inmates who signed up for birth control implants or vasectomies.
Memphis Lawmaker Is Second Democrat To Bring Articles Of Impeachment Against Trump
Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen says President Trump’s comments following the deadly white supremacist rally in Virginia show he’s not fit to be president. In a statement, Cohen says he will introduce articles of impeachment — becoming the second Democrat to do so.
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