We are heading into the heat of summer — and there is one spot that many locals here in Nashville go to where they can relax and cool down: Percy Priest Lake.
Katherine Ruppelt
Katherine Ceicys is a multimedia producer for This Is Nashville. Katherine first came to public radio as a freelancer for WPLN. Her stories have been aired on The World and Here and Now. On her podcast, Finding Good, she has in-depth conversations centered around a different topic for each series. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Katherine has been a bit of a rolling stone- and now calls Nashville home. As a journalist and producer, she is dedicated to helping others tell their stories. She enjoys profiling individuals and communities, covering the personal impacts of policies, the environment, and rural life, and exploring different takes on how to live well as a human. While she’s always finding stories and writing for fun, she also fills her early mornings with yoga, her evenings with cooking and time with friends, and her free time as a happy (and sendy) intermediate climber, whitewater kayaker, diver, and surfer.
Joining Nashville Rowing Club for a summer sunset practice
This Is Nashville recently joined the Nashville Rowing Club for an evening practice to see how the rowers experience ‘Nashville’s Lake.’
Farmers ensure the future of their properties for generations to come
This Is Nashville recently visited two Tennessee farmers making plans for the future of the properties their families have owned and worked for generations.
Amid BNA’s holiday rush and expansion, travelers find little touches smooth the experience
Nashville International Airport is getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Living in a home after being unhoused can be daunting. A Nashville developer is trying to help.
The Wallace Street apartments are designed to help make the transition into housing for previously unhoused tenants easier.
What’s it like competing in a pageant? Contestants take us behind the scenes
From an outsider’s perspective, competing in a pageant looks intimidating and complicated. There are rules for what to wear, and how to walk. You have to demonstrate a talent and answer complex questions on current events in laughably short time limits.
One Generation Away shares food — and hope — with local communities
Local non-profit One Generation Away is working hard to get food to people who need it in Middle Tennessee.
Tennessee gun owners aren’t required to take classes, but many do. WPLN went to learn what it’s like.
“The power of a gun is daunting,” says one student. “That’s going to take time for me to get used to. It wasn’t so much in the recoil or anything, it was more just having that power.”
Romance novels are booming — and diversifying — and this Nashville book club is loving it
On a dark and stormy night, about 30 women brave the pouring rain to gather at Parnassus Books in Green Hills. They’re here for the store’s romance book club: Between the Covers.
What is a ‘sister city’? Nashville prepares for cultural exchanges with Erbil, the capitol of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
A partnership roughly a decade in the making is about to become official: Nashville and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, are in the homestretch of formalizing a relationship as “sister cities.” Erbil would become Nashville’s tenth sister — a designation that involves travel, cultural and professional exchanges.
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