WPLN listener Daniel Wooden asks Curious Nashville: “Is it true that Nashville gets more rain annually than Seattle, Washington?” The answers is pretty straightforward: yes.
Curious Nashville: What Happens When The Wrong Stuff Gets In The Recycling Bin?
For most people, recycling means placing an empty soda can or some scrap paper in a blue bin. They might take that bin to the curb or to a drop-off site. But beyond that, the process is mysterious, filled with arbitrary rules and a vague reassurance that we’re doing the right thing for the environment. […]
Curious Nashville: Remembering America’s Deadliest Train Crash
Even many Nashville natives don’t know about the head-on train crash at Dutchman’s Curve on July 9, 1918. It killed 101 people — mostly African Americans — and by most counts remains the deadliest train accident in American history.
Curious Nashville: The Life And Death Of An Old House In Boomtown
We tackle a question that’s elemental to Nashville these days: What happens to the waste when old houses get demolished? To explore the subject, WPLN’s Meribah Knight picked a house in Inglewood and followed it from demolition permit to landfill. Then she tracked down the family that called it home for more than 50 years.
Curious Nashville: Where Famed ‘Outsider’ Artist William Edmondson Lived And What’s There Now
WPLN listener Hart Armstrong asked the following question to Curious Nashville: Where in Nashville did the artist William Edmondson live? Is there a…
Curious Nashville: How A Mosaic Dragon Became A Neighborhood Mascot Near Vanderbilt
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 […]
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