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2) Wheeler
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Wheeler is an aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas who travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music. The line between reality and fiction blurs as Wheeler chases his dream in this touching tribute to old school country legends.
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Scope and content: A scrapbook of newspaper clippings, programs, and correspondence related primarily to the music career of Nashville operatic singer Myra Bender, the Nashville Conservatory of Music, Little Theatre productions, and the Peabody Demonstration School. Also present are a few materials about Hidenari and Gwen Terasaki and their daughter Mariko's marriage to Mayne Williams Miller, of Johnson City, Tennessee.
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Scope and content: Scrapbook compiled by Joseph R. Citti (1912-2003). The scrapbook documents his time working as a performer in 1933. The scrapbook, which is not in chronological order, contains mostly loose undated newspaper clippings about and reviews of a production called the Gaieties of 1933. Also included is a 1933 cast roster on Belmont Theater letterhead, two blank Actor's Equality Diplomas, contest rules, a completed entry form and a damaged...
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Series I. Edward Webb consists of items dating from 1901 to 1913 which document the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), including some newsletters; a variety of business cards, advertising correspondence, and other ephemera especially relating to tailors, hardware and dry goods stores, and other merchants in downtown Nashville; a few items from 1905 about the Nashville Grays militia company, and a few programs relating to performing arts. Particularly...
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Scope and content: Includes programs, brochures, flyers, invitations, posters, handbills, newsletters, and a variety of other materials by and about Nashville area performing arts, including venues and specific performances and performers. The vast majority of materials throughout the collection are programs or promotional flyers and posters. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Some items are photocopies.
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Abstract: Thirty interviews conducted with Nashville elders, recalling in autobiographical form their major life events and experiences. Most are audio recordings although a few may exist only as full or partial transcripts. Interviews were conducted as part of the statewide initiative known as Homecoming '86, a celebration of local communities and their history. Planning documents for the oral history project are also part of the collection.
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