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.
Country musics grand old opery. Today we are at the historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown nashville, tennessee. The nickname of the Ryman Auditorium was the Mother Church of Country Music, which definitely tells the history of both things that 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, and 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. Captain ryman built the Ryman Auditorium and it opened at first in 1892 as a tabernacle. That is 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. During the run of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s, some of the most famous people in all
Project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Whittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific historian, with more projects on the back burners than ive ever seen on the stove before. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of johns work are his published work are many and varied with something of a focus Abraham Lincoln with the legal and constitution, as well and hes coauthor of a book entitled Civic Education and the work of citizenship and because he has news they wrote our little monitor, the greatest invention of this civil war. I asked him to put it on a topic, and it draws from oth
Became a place for political rallies, civil rights events, and home to Country Musics grand ole opry. Today we are at the historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown nashville, tennessee. The nickname of the auditorium is the Mother Church of Country Music, which tells the history of both things it is famous for. It was built by a riverboat captain famously converted under a tent in downtown nashville in may of 1865, and after his conversion, he believed traveling ministers should have a permanent home inside that was large enough to take the large crowds of traveling ministers who came to town. Captain ryman built the Ryman Auditorium, it opened first in 1892 as a tabernacle. That is the church part of the that is the church part of the history. The Country Music part deals with the grand ole opry, which can be renting 43 after being in many different homes in nashville and stayed here until 1974 when the new opry house was built, but during the run of the 1940s, 19 50s, 1960s and 1970s, so
We begin with a visit to nashvilles Ryman Auditorium as author dale ewing how the venue became a place for political rally, civil rights events and Country Musics grand ole opry. Today were at the historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown nashville, tennessee. The nickname of the Ryman Auditorium is the Mother Church of Country Music which definitely tells the history of both things that it is famous for. It was built by a riverboat captain who was famously converted under a tent in downtown nashville in may of 1865. And 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 go 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. And the Country Music part deals with the grand ole opry which came in 1943 any came here until 1974 when the new opry house was built, but during the run of th