Nashville Tennessee •

City Focus: Nashville

by Kelley Thompson

Nashville began in 1779 as a Wild West town and, within one hundred years, became the 'Athens of the South,' with its very own Parthenon and statue of the Greek Goddess Athena. Nashville has reinvented itself, though, to become Music City.

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's

new Ray Charles exhibit,which has been named one of the top twenty events by the Southeast Tourism Society, has been going strong since March and will remain open through December 31, 2007.

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experiences for overnight groups starting July 2006. A tour held in Jack Daniel's Saloon will show the history and process of making bourbon, and includes a lesson on how to make a bourbon cake and a gift package at the end of the tour which includes a Petterpatch Tipsy Cake, a recipe for bourbon cake and a CD featuring Bluegrass music.

Nashville International Airport (BNA)

will break ground this month $35 million terminal renovation project,to be carried out in three phases over three-year period. Included in the project will be: reconfigured and reconstructed restaurants, concessions and restrooms, including the addition of more restrooms;a consolidated, artfully decorated security checkpoint; skylights to add volume and light, providing numerous opportunities.

The Tennessee State Museum

The Tennessee State Museum is home to Old Glory through November 26 in an exhibit titled, "Old Glory: An American Treasure Comes Home." The flag was atop a nineteenth-century ship before being hidden inside a quilt here in Nashville during the Civil War. After spending a good bit of the last century at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., Old Glory is back in Nashville, on loan for eight months."Old Glory: An American Treasure Comes Home" showcases the 10'x17' flag, which was presented to Massachusetts sea captain William Driver by his family before he set sail around the world in the early 1830s. The Union supporter had it sewn inside a quilt for fear that the Rebels would burn it.

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