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Opryland

Opryland’s Lasting Legacy

By Blake Farmer

July 22, 2025

Opryland Forever sign
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Opryland has been closed for nearly 30 years, and as the producer of a new documentary puts it, some people are still “butt hurt” about it. Maybe we didn’t know what we had until it left a theme park-size hole in Nashville’s heart. A documentary premiering at the Nashville Film Festival, called “A Circle Broken,” […]

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: country music, music, Opryland

NashVillager Podcast: Unaccompanied kids at a Nashville amusement park

By Nina Cardona

July 17, 2025

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What made Opryland different from other theme parks?  Plus, the local news for July 17, 2025.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Opryland

NashVillager Podcast: Nashville’s legendary amusement park

By Cynthia Abrams

June 30, 2025

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What made Opryland Nashville’s top tourist attraction? Plus, the local news for June 30, 2025.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Opryland

NashVillager Podcast: Opryland’s evolution

By Nina Cardona

November 26, 2024

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How do changes to the Opryland Hotel tell the Nashville story? Plus the local news for November 26, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: downtown Nashville, Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Opryland

Opry Mills could be a walk or bike ride away from Nashville’s core on proposed greenway

By Cynthia Abrams

September 8, 2024

A multi-million-dollar grant application could soon extend the Cumberland River Greenway to Opry Mills.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Cumberland River Greenway, Grand Ole Opry, greenways, Metro Parks, Metropolitan Board of Parks and Recreation, Opry Mills, Opryland, Stones River Greenway

Nashville’s subreddit and an Opryland rabbit hole

By Mack Linebaugh

July 20, 2023

A couple of days ago, Reddit user SilentWalrus92 posted a photo of what appears to be a pristine admission ticket to the Opryland theme park.

Filed Under: NashVillager Tagged With: Opryland, Reddit

Speakers at ‘health freedom’ conference push back on vaccines and mandates, drawing about 1,000 people

By Paige Pfleger

October 22, 2021

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Attendees came from all over the country, as well as nearby, for the event. And despite clear signs throughout the hotel saying that unvaccinated people should wear masks inside the resort, none were.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: anti-vaccine, misinformation, Opryland, public health, Tennessee Politics, vaccine hesitancy

From COVID conspiracies to Stop the Steal, some of the loudest voices in misinformation are coming to Opryland

By Paige Pfleger

October 15, 2021

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Associates of former President Trump, including his son Eric and his aide Roger Stone, and an Ohio doctor who went viral for spreading the falsehood that COVID vaccines magnetize people are among those who will appear.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: anti-vaccine, coronavirus vaccine, misinformation, Opryland, Politics, ryman hospitality properties, vaccine hesitancy

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