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For Rayna James and Deacon Claybourne, the road to intimacy is rocky as ever. Devastated by his sister's death, jealous of Rayna's focus on a sexy recording artist and unsettled in his new role as Maddie's father, Deacon lashes out, forcing Rayna to make some agonizing choices. And, despite having a new baby and a hit movie, Juliette Barnes is spiraling downward in a haze of partying, drugs and booze after her split from Avery.
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"Louie Francis is ready for another life and she’s going to make it happen. When she sets out to make her dreams of being a songwriter in Nashville come true, she has no idea what’s in store, but she’s determined to be the person she’s always wanted to be.
Like a zillion other people, Heather King had dreams of being the next Country superstar. But it isn’t long before she figures out her real talent is in discovering the next big thing,...
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Arts and Entertainment - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Scattered issues of Take One newspaper, published in Nashville, Tenn. Holdings begin with vol. 1 issue 5 (Dec. 1977/Jan. 1978) when it was published on a monthly basis, to vol. 3 no. 13 (Aug. 13, 1979), by which time it had become a weekly.
The range of topics covered in each issue generally include: personality profiles and interviews; coverage of local television and radio stations; short fiction and essays; issues and topics...
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Scope and content: A scrapbook of newspaper clippings, programs, and correspondence related primarily to the music career of Nashville operatic singer Myra Bender, the Nashville Conservatory of Music, Little Theatre productions, and the Peabody Demonstration School. Also present are a few materials about Hidenari and Gwen Terasaki and their daughter Mariko's marriage to Mayne Williams Miller, of Johnson City, Tennessee.
Includes a handwritten narrative...
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Scope and content: Includes programs, brochures, flyers, invitations, posters, handbills, newsletters, and a variety of other materials by and about Nashville area performing arts, including venues and specific performances and performers. The vast majority of materials throughout the collection are programs or promotional flyers and posters. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Some items are photocopies.
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Scope and content: Heavily illustrated scrapbook, with frequent annotations, compiled by Mary Weber Farrar. The bulk of the scrapbook dates from 1892 to 1899. A few individual items date from 1905, ca. 1920, and ca. 1942; their source is not known. Pages are numbered with one page number referencing a two-page spread. In ink, inside the front cover, an inscription reads, "Musical Notes, Mrs. F.E. Farrar, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 27, 1895. Further on...
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Scope and content: Administrative and other materials document the three-year history of Nashville Gospel Arts Day (1987-1989). Materials include planning notes, proclamations, publicity releases, grant funding requests, correspondence, performance contracts, local press coverage clippings, expense receipts, souvenir booklets, invitation lists, guest lists, and descriptive reports.
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Scope and content: A variety of materials, related mostly to the performing arts in Nashville, Tenn. in the early 1920s. Items include performance programs, news clippings, and other material. Some items have minor damage, and some appear to have been removed from a scrapbook or show other signs of having been glued down in the past. Many of the programs contain photographic illustrations.
Subjects include classical music, dance, and singing, including...
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Civil Rights - Special Collection Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Sixteen issues of The Mid-State Observer, an African-American newspaper published in Nashville, Tenn. starting in July 1978. Topics include local and state politics; high school and college sports; schools; religious news (from both Christian and Muslim points of view); music; theater; small businesses and business owners; housing; editorials; and discussion of racism, discrimination, and economic conditions. Frequent articles appear...
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Scope and content: A variety of items promoting and documenting the Grand Ole Opry. Includes histories, programs, promotional fliers, personal reminiscences, essays, and special commemorative issues of newspapers and booklets. Some items are heavily illustrated, most in color. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item. Contains some photocopies.
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Scope and content: Contains a wide variety of materials, mostly from the twentieth century, about Nashville area churches. Includes church histories, biographies of local ministers and other prominent persons in the Christian religious life of Nashville; printed sermons; church bulletins; membership lists; promotional literature; church periodicals and related literature; architectural information on historic church buildings; information about particular...
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Scope and Content: Scrapbook compiled by Clura Haney containing items circa 1933 to circa 1947. Contents include numerous postcards from various locations, including: Wilmington, Del.; Oklahoma; New York City; Chicago; Atlantic City and other locations in New Jersey; St. Louis; Florida; and Nashville, Tenn. Some pre-printed photographs, sold to tourists, are also included. Frequent brief annotations often accompany the items in the scrapbook. There...
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Scope and content: The Metropolitan Weekly was an African-American newspaper published in Nashville, Tenn. beginning in September 1980. Format was tabloid sized, with photographs, news articles, opinion pieces, and advertising relevant to the African-American community, with emphasis on the geographic area of North Nashville. Although desiring to grow in to a weekly publication, as reflected in its name, the newspaper generally published twice a month...
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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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Series I. Edward Webb consists of items dating from 1901 to 1913 which document the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), including some newsletters; a variety of business cards, advertising correspondence, and other ephemera especially relating to tailors, hardware and dry goods stores, and other merchants in downtown Nashville; a few items from 1905 about the Nashville Grays militia company, and a few programs relating to performing arts. Particularly...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials concerning the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate between Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic candidate Barack Obama held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 7, 2008. Items include numerous materials relating to the university and city's roles in hosting and promoting the debate, including reports, programs, special events, publicity materials, corporate sponsorships, community engagement,...
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Scope and content: Sheet music published or distributed in Nashville, Tenn. A few items may have been published elsewhere but bear connection to Nashville through subject matter, illustrations, or printing house. Most items date from the late 1800s with a few from the early 1900s. Publishers featured prominently in the collection include: R. Dorman & Co.; Jas. A. McClure; Frank G. Fite; Jesse French; and H.A. French. Printing firms include: Brandon...