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.
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And will it be a boston suite party . The indians had to fenway park, hoping to say adios to big papi and the redo sox. We will preview tomorrows game three from boston. Fox 8 news at 6 00 starts right now. Clevelands own fox 8 news. Matthew has been downgraded to a category one hurricane, but that is just the number two People Living along the carolina coast. Good evening and welcome to fox 8 news at 6 00. Im bill sheil. And im jennifer jordan. The massive storm made north of charleston this morning, bringing storm surges near 5 feet. Fox joel waldman is tracking the storm and joins us with the latest. A fast weakening Hurricane Matthew continuing its march along the east coast on saturday. Ng tt the most powerful atlantic stormsc since 2007 left major flooding07 and when damage in is wake. We still are in a dangerous situation. Matthew knocked out power to more than a milliono people as t another. It is being blamed for multiple deaths in the us. Hopefully as people get their power b
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