Listen to Joe Nolan’s poem about Lebanon Pike. It contains 12 references to places you can see along the road. Did you catch them all? You’ll find the list here: The Pikes Project began in 2015 with the publishing of a photo essay of Gallatin Pike on the WPLN website. Three years later, we’re five pikes long […]
20 Photos: Ghosts Of The Past, Seeds Of The Future On Dickerson Pike
Before I-65, Dickerson Pike/US 41 was the main road between Louisville and Nashville, and the vintage signs of the pike’s motels are the most striking sights on the street. They recall a time before interstate freeways homogenized regional cultures, and they remind me of how exciting it must have been to be a tourist, a business man or even a wannabe country star arriving in Nashville for the very first time after a long, slow drive.
Nashville’s Eccentric And Evolving Charlotte Pike, In 20 Photos
When I moved to Nashville in the early 1990s, Charlotte Pike was one of the first places I found that had some of the bohemian funk I was looking for in my new home.
20 Photos Of Nashville’s Colorful Nolensville Pike
WPLN’s Mack Linebaugh rode along with Joe Nolan as he hunted down visual treasures along Nolensville Pike, capturing them with his inconspicuous Android smartphone camera. Listen to the story: I most often make my way to Nolensville Pike following an appetite for huevos con chorizo or a craving for authentic kebabs or to buy ingredients […]
20 Photos Of Nashville’s Weird And Beautiful Gallatin Pike
Listen Gallatin Pike is gritty, but it’s also groovy — and even gorgeous if you know where to look. It’s the main vein of the beating heart of one of the city’s most dynamic communities, the East Nashville and Inglewood neighborhoods. The pike’s used tire shops, fast food chains, vintage boutiques, music venues, bars […]
Late Dulcimer Player Inspired Tattoos, Cyndi Lauper, And A Museum Exhibit
David Schnaufer moved to Nashville in the 1980′s on a quest to make the mountain dulcimer as common to country music as the fiddle and the pedal steel guitar.
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