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"An American adventure : the living legacy of Jimmy Gentry traces the life of eighty two year old Jimmy Gentry from his Depression-era boyhood in historic Franklin, TN, to his military service in WWII, to his life-altering experience as one of the first liberating soldiers through the gates at the infamous Dachau concentration camp, to his over 50 years as a renowned football coach"--Container.
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"A dilapidated factory boiler room filled with debris. Four theater friends looking for a home for their newly created theater company. What could go wrong? Better still, what could go right? The heartwarming story of Nashville's "scrappy little theater that could," 120 Seats in a Boiler Room: The Creation of a Courageous Professional Theater, retells the tumultuous journey of the award-winning Boiler Room Theatre from conception to closure. This...
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Scope and content: Day book of accounts (1849-1853) of individuals in Franklin, Tenn. Some persons have connections or business dealings in Nashville and Pulaski. Book is attributed in a later hand to Capt. Tom Henderson of Franklin, Tenn. Entries use double entry bookkeeping, and refer to stocks, bonds, and dividends; estate settlements; boarders and renters; real estate deals; contributions to Christian religious organizations and churches; hiring...
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Scope and content: A variety of calendars, from 1923 to 2000, serving primarily as compilations of historical data and timelines, marking anniversaries of particular events; or as a compiled listing of various charitable and social events occurring in Nashville during a particular year. A few other calendars were produced for the purposes of advertising businesses, raising money for charity, or other activities. Several of the calendars also include...
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Scope and content: Scrapbook containing clippings (many with illustrations) and a small quantity of other items documenting a wide variety of topics, with many materials dated from 1936. A typed index has been added in the front, presumably by the compiler of the scrapbook as a note at the top is in the same hand as other notes elsewhere in the scrapbook. Compiler is believed to be James Palmer Wade, due to a reference within the book to "my poem"...
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Scope and content: Minutes, financial records, historical sketches, correspondence, rosters, programs, clippings, rule books and other materials documenting the activities and members of the Middle Tennessee Pony Club, from 1953 to 2007, with the majority of the material concentrating on the time from 1970 to 1986. Some items also relate to the U.S. Pony Club. In Series II, a small quantity of material relates to other equestrian organizations in...