A Little More Time In Nashville

Our last few days were filled with more fun!  We met an old friend, Susan E, from our high school days and toured The First Center For Visual Arts.  What a wonderful exhibit Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945, and Postcards of the Wiener Werkstatte. After dinner we walked Broadway and wondered in and out of the  Honkey Tonk bars.  You get to listen to great music for free.

                                              Broadway at night

Of course we had to visit the Opry Land Hotel to see the indoor atrium we'd heard so much about.

Indoor Atrium @ Opry Land Hotel

We visited Andrew Jackson's Hermitage.  The Hermitage is more than a house.  The museum of Andrew Jackson has so much information about the man, his life and his politics.  I enjoyed it so much I wanted to go back again, but alas there is so much to see and do in this area.  

Glo @ Guide at The Hermitage

T @ Andrew Jackson's tomb

Andrew Jackson's home

We spent a day in Franklin, TN.  It was fun seeing him excited about where he was born and lived the first 7 years of his life.

1st Presbyterian Church (1842),
where T was introduced to Christianity.

The hospital where T was born (built before 1937)

The house in which T first lived.

On our last day in the area, we drove over to Kentucky to see Mammoth Cave National Park.  Touring the cave was great.  It is the worlds longest cave at over 400 miles.  Our tour only covered about 2 miles.  I wanted to stay and see other tours but that will have to be on another visit.  One or our guides was Jerry Bransford.  His great-great grandfather was one of the first guides at Mammoth Cave.  A book Making Their Mark: The Signature of Slavery At Mammoth Cave, by Joy Medley Lyons, tells the story of slavery at Mammoth Cave and about Materson Bransford.   Jerry and his father, David were interviewed as part of the research of the book.

Glo & Jerry Bransford

Glo & T at entrance to Mammoth Cave NP