The Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel is no ordinary attraction. The kinetic sculpture celebrates Tennessee history and culture, featuring steam engines, riverboats, giant banjos, mountain scenery, and over-the-top caricatures ranging from Sequoia to Chet Atkins to Tom Ryman. Yet for 15 years, the beloved carousel has been stuck in storage.
Curious Nashville: A Beloved-But-Mothballed Carousel Has A Chance Of Coming Back
It’s been 15 years since the Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel was taken down from the Nashville riverfront and put into storage. Yet, its legend lives on….
Curious Nashville: The Do’s And Don’ts Of Nashville Recycling
From plastic straws to old lightbulbs and shredded paper, it’s not always obvious what can be recycled through Nashville’s curbside program.
Curious Nashville: How One Man’s Fascination With Concrete Led To An Odd Pair Of Park Monuments
Most visitors to Nashville’s Centennial Park can guess what the main attraction is: The Parthenon. Towering over the landscape, it catches the eye of…
Curious Nashville: Reintroducing The City’s ‘Biggest Man’
Sometimes, Curious Nashville questions arrive and WPLN already has an answer in hand. So while there’s less of a journey this time, the inquiry itself was written in a lively way:
Curious Nashville: Why Did O. Henry Choose The City For His Famous 1904 Short Story?
Listen There was a time when one of the most acclaimed authors in American literature set a story in Nashville. In the early 1900’s, O. Henry wrote “A Municipal Report,” a gritty mystery that plays out in a city grappling with its identity. A recent Curious Nashville listener asks if O. Henry had ever actually […]
Curious Nashville: Piranhas, Pink Elephants And Other Wild Animal Mysteries Explained
Fans of Curious Nashville have asked us several wonderful and weird questions about animals, and we’ve answered a few. But until now, that reporting hasn’t appeared in our podcast — and some of the facts and quirky details had to be trimmed out of the stories when they aired on the radio.
Curious Nashville: A Question About Magnolia Trees Can Tell You A Lot About The City
Listen Look around Nashville and they’re hard to miss: Magnolia trees grace the Nashville City Cemetery, Vanderbilt and Belmont universities, Sevier and Centennial parks, and the grounds of the Hermitage, Grassmere and Glen Leven Farm.
Curious Nashville: The Complicated Past Of A Historic Tuberculosis Hospital
While World War II raged abroad, it was tuberculosis that was killing far too many Tennesseans on the homefront. So the state set out to establish a…
Curious Nashville: Why Early Voting Probably Won’t Return To East Nashville
Listen Roughly half of Nashville voters in recent years have been casting their ballots during the two-week early voting period. The convenience of early voting is often cited as a reason. But one place where that’s not an option is in East Nashville.
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