Curious Nashville: Why There’s No Curbside Glass Recycling — For Now
Inquiring minds — especially newcomers to Nashville — often wonder about the city’s recycling program. Now, spurred by a question submitted to WPLN’s Curious Nashville , there’s some news about an...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: What's Up With That Golden-Domed Bank On Charlotte Pike?
Anyone who's driven through the intersection of Charlotte Pike and 51st Avenue in West Nashville has likely wondered some version of this Curious Nashville question from Katie Gonzalez: Why does the...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: How An Unusual Flag Helps Tell City's Civil War History
Eagle-eyed visitors to Nashville's Civil War-era Fort Negley may have noticed something a little bit different about the United States flag that flies near the visitor's center. As Topher Fleming asks:...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: We Try Rolling Up Warner Park’s 'Gravity Hill'
Here's an intriguing Curious Nashville question we received from Thais Carr: Exactly how does "Gravity Hill" in Warner Park work? Many times I went up and backwards in my VW with just one tap on the...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: How We Got Left With A Nice Station And No Passenger Train
The Curious Nashville inbox has received several variations on the same question: What happened to passenger rail service in Nashville? Residents are right to be curious. Nashville is one of the...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: The City's Biggest Reservoir Once Flooded A Neighborhood,...
There’s something about past mayhem that intrigues people. Hence, this question submitted to Curious Nashville: What is the history of the Nashville reservoir flood, and what is the reservoir’s use...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: Yes, There Was A Real Granny White And Her Story Reads...
Even an odd street name like "Granny White" fades into the background for anyone who regularly drives the shady two-lane road to Brentwood. But a few listeners have submitted Curious Nashville...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: What Happened To The Whimsical Red Grooms Carousel — And...
Even long-time Nashvillians may have forgotten the quirky carousel that used to twirl along the banks of the Cumberland River.
View ArticleCurious Nashville: Is Fred Douglas Park Named For A Famed Abolitionist?
Either Nashvillians can't spell, or there's a prominent Fred Douglas that no one knows about.
View ArticleCurious Nashville: 'Water Witching' And The Search For Unmarked Graves
This episode wanders into supernatural territory in the search for unmarked graves. It began innocently enough: A listener asked us about Nashville's oldest structures. But as we visited some of the...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: Why We're 'Music City,' According To Ken Burns
Nashville Public Radio listener Holden Penley sent this question to Curious Nashville : Why is Nashville Music City? Why here and not somewhere else?
View ArticleCurious Nashville: The Year Jimi Hendrix Jammed On Jefferson Street
Before he was an international superstar, Jimi Hendrix spent a year on Nashville's Jefferson Street. It's a chapter in Hendrix's musical life that many biographers gloss over. In our latest episode of...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: Why Did Jimi Hendrix Play Jefferson Street?
This is a shortened version that aired Wednesday, Jan. 4. For the complete Curious Nashville podcast episode about Jefferson Street's R&B scene, click here . Before he was an international...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: How A Mosaic Dragon Became A Neighborhood Mascot Near...
One of our listeners sent the following to Curious Nashville: What's the story behind the mosaic dragon in the park in Hillsboro Village? This is one of those questions that gets more interesting the...
View ArticleNashville's Fred Douglas Park May Become 'Frederick Douglass' As Naming...
East Nashville's Fred Douglas Park may be formally renamed after famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The Metro Parks department is trying to figure out how the name came to be, and the answer...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: Where Famed 'Outsider' Artist William Edmondson Lived And...
WPLN listener Hart Armstrong asked the following question to Curious Nashville: Where in Nashville did the artist William Edmondson live? Is there a plaque? The short answer is that the home of...
View ArticleMetro Council To Weigh In On Renaming Fred Douglas Park
The Metro Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday night in support of changing the name of Fred Douglas Park. The problem is, the parks board isn't technically allowed to change the names of parks.
View ArticleMetro Parks Officially Clarifies Name To Frederick Douglass Park
The board of Metro Parks has corrected an 80-year-old typo. The panel voted unanimously Tuesday to clarify the name of East Nashville's Fred Douglas Park, to make sure it honors the famed abolitionist...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: The Life And Death Of An Old House In Boomtown
This installment of Curious Nashville is a seemingly simple one, but with its own set of twists and turns. Our question asker Melinda Welton, wanted to know: "Where is construction waste from new...
View ArticleCurious Nashville: Remembering America’s Deadliest Train Crash
Even many Nashville natives don't know about the head-on train crash at Dutchman's Curve on July 9, 1918. It killed 101 people — mostly African Americans — and by most counts remains the deadliest...
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