One of our listeners sent the following to Curious Nashville: What’s the story behind the mosaic dragon in the park in Hillsboro Village? This is one of…
Curious Nashville: The Year Jimi Hendrix Jammed On Jefferson Street And How It Still Reverberates
Before he was an international superstar, Jimi Hendrix spent a year on Nashville’s Jefferson Street. It’s a chapter in Hendrix’s musical life that many biographers gloss over. In our latest episode of Curious Nashville, we explain why he came here — and what it says today about the city’s most prominent African-American neighborhood.
Curious Nashville: Why We’re ‘Music City,’ According To Ken Burns
Nashville Public Radio listener Holden Penley sent this question to Curious Nashville: Why is Nashville Music City? Why here and not somewhere else?
Curious Nashville: ‘Water Witching’ And The Search For Unmarked Graves
This episode wanders into supernatural territory in the search for unmarked graves. It began innocently enough: A listener asked us about Nashville’s oldest structures. But as we visited some of the city’s oldest homes, we found family graveyards that date back 200 years or more — and some owners, it turns out, relied on a […]
Curious Nashville: Is Fred Douglas Park Named For A Famed Abolitionist?
Either Nashvillians can’t spell, or there’s a prominent Fred Douglas that no one knows about.
Curious Nashville: Yes, There Was A Real Granny White And Her Story Reads Like Legend
Even an odd street name like “Granny White” fades into the background for anyone who regularly drives the shady two-lane road to Brentwood. But a few…
Curious Nashville: The City’s Biggest Reservoir Once Flooded A Neighborhood, But Still Stands Today
There’s something about past mayhem that intrigues people. Hence, this question submitted to Curious Nashville: What is the history of the Nashville…
Curious Nashville: How We Got Left With A Nice Station And No Passenger Train
The Curious Nashville inbox has received several variations on the same question: What happened to passenger rail service in Nashville? Residents are right to be curious. Nashville is one of the largest cities in the country to have no rail connection to another city. So here’s the inquiry from retired school teacher Sharon Lorenz of […]
Curious Nashville: We Try Rolling Up Warner Park’s ‘Gravity Hill’
Here’s an intriguing Curious Nashville question we received from Thais Carr: Exactly how does “Gravity Hill” in Warner Park work? Many times I went up…
Curious Nashville: What’s Up With That Golden-Domed Bank On Charlotte Pike?
Anyone who’s driven through the intersection of Charlotte Pike and 51st Avenue in West Nashville has likely wondered some version of this Curious…
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