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Scope and content: A series of oral history interviews with former Nashville teacher George Boyles, conducted 17 May 1987-22 Nov. 1989 by Mary Glenn Hearne. Boyles discusses Nashville during the first half of the 20th century, including such topics as streetcar lines; city limits; 1918 train wrecks; an airplane accident in West Nashville; airfields; the last horse drawn fire engine; schools; the Tennessee State Fairgrounds; neighborhoods; the 1916...
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When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
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Scope and content: Records of the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors (GNAR) (1996-present) and its predecessor organizations, the Nashville Real Estate Board (1907-1967); and the Nashville Board of Realtors (1967-1996). The collection documents the real estate industry̹Ñ₂Ø♭s growth and professionalization in the twentieth century, covering the years 1923 through 2011. The bulk of the collection runs from 1950 to 2002, and is therefore...
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