Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander and members of his extended family wave to a crowd from the caboose of the official Homecoming ’86 train.Vanderbilt University Special Collections photoForty years ago, communities across Tennessee were preparing for…
The night before I snapped this photo, a heavy rain poured down on Middle Tennessee. I knew the humidity would be high the next day and that the rain would drop the temperature overnight into…
How a nearly century-old mansion has become a welcoming point for hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans In 1929, William Ridley Wills, the founder of National Life and Accident Insurance Company, built a 15,500-square-foot Georgian-style home…