We begin with a visit to nashvilles Ryman Auditorium as author david ewing talks about how the venue became a place for political rallies, civil rights events and home to Country Musics grand ole opry. Today were at the historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown nashville, tennessee. It definitely tells the history of both things it is famous for. It was built by a river boat captain who was famously converted under a tent in downtown nashville in may of 1865. After his conversion, he believed that traveling ministers should have a permanent home inside that was large enough to take the large crowds of the traveling ministers who came to town. So captain ryman built the Ryman Auditorium and it opened at first in 1892 as a tabernacle. So thats the church part of the history. The music part of the history, the Country Music part, deals with the grand ole opry which came here in 1943 after being in many different homes in nashville, and stayed here until 1974 when the new opry house was built.
Still the winds, roads in the north bay closed. We have drew tuma in. They have that 24hour window. The winds will remain calm but overnight tonight into saturday morning they become active again. The winds are certainly going to be an issue as we head into saturday morning. A live look outside. You can already see the smoke and the haze. Air quality a big issue today. Very unhealthy in the north bay but unhealthy across the entire region and even into saturday we really dont get any relief from this poor air quality. Winds right now are calm to light but watch what happens. Future tracker wind gusts as we get you into late tonight and Early Saturday Morning those winds, unfortunately, will increase with frequent gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour and that will bring more smoke into the rest of the bay area. Thats weather. A check of the roads with sue. Good morning. Good morning. Well start with a sig involving the caldecott the right bore has reopened. If theres a good news situation it is
Thats a look at some of the current nonfiction bestsellers according to publishers weekly. Many of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Welcome to nashville, tennessee, on booktv. Located on the cumberland river, it has a population of about 650,000 making it the second largest city in the state. Nashville is known as the center of the Country Music industry, earning it the nickname music city usa. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, over the next 90 minutes well travel the city and surrounding areas and talk with local authors about the history of nashville including stories of escaped slaves on their road to freedom. Slaves had always escaped. Wherever slavery existed, slaves ran away. The point in the 1850s what we see happening is increasingly slaves are running away in groups. So it presupposes a kind of organization not only just family units, but groups of people who are not necessarily related, who may work
Welcome to nashville, tennessee located on the car lumbered in the river, 650,000, the second largest city in the state. National is known as the Country Music industry only get the nickname music city usa. With help of Comcast Cable partners we will travel the city and surrounding areas and talk with local authors about the history of national including stories of escaped slaves on their way to freedom. Wherever slavery existed the point in the 1850s what you see happening is slaves running away in groups. It presupposes an organization, not just family units but groups of people not necessarily related who may Work Together. We will learn how negative campaign ads can affect president ial races. One of the things people assume is a tax i made up. You go after somebody because you go after them. That is not quite right. You need to have a basis of evidence for the attack to work. There has never been anybody who attacked bill clinton for not being informed on Public Policy because he
This was somehow, this was leaked. It first appeared in a vulgar french issue. It was then translated into english. The letter was used to suggest that jefferson was against washington and was really turning his back on the revolutionary legacy. They also brought up his behavior as governor of virginia, that he had run away from the british. It is always a bizarre charge because the legislature, who were most critical of him ran far ahead of him in escaping richmond and then escaping charlottesville. What always impressed me about jefferson is he stayed long enough to monticello to actually watch this british lesions and loyalists start to come up the slope, which is not a very High Mountain and then finally, he left having sent his family off and to advance. This story was the one about which she was most sensitive for his entire political career. He was subsisting about it in the last week of his life, so another words, it hit a point. There were stories about jefferson having a blac