Folk & Traditional Arts Day-Turkey Calls

Creative Discovery Museum, 321 Chestnut St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Join the Creative Discovery Museum for a demonstration and discussion of turkey calls with Kenny Brancefield at 1pm and 3pm, and tour the museum's new Appalachian Arts exhibit to experience the sights, sounds and smells of a traditional ramp festival. Visit the museum's website for more information. The Folk & Traditional Arts series is partly Learn More...

Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis & Clark

Lewis County Depot, 112 E. Main Street, Hohenwald, TN

Join the Lewis County Historical Society at the Depot Center for a traveling exhibit, Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis & Clark, organized by the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. The exhibit explores the impact on map making of the expedition, including the geography of indigenous cartographic traditions. The project is made possible with Learn More...

Folk & Traditional Arts Days: Ramp Cooking

Creative Discovery Museum, 321 Chestnut St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Join the Creative Discovery Museum for a ramp cooking class and discussion, and tour the museum's new Appalachian Arts exhibit to experience the sights, sounds and smells of a traditional ramp festival. Visit the museum's website for more information. The Folk & Traditional Arts series is partly supported by Humanities Tennessee's General Grant program.

TN Writers/TN Stories presents Yasmine Ali

Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

A gripping and meticulously crafted work of narrative nonfiction, Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America (on-sale February 21, 2023) reconstructs the events of a horrific explosion in 1978 that can still be felt today. The explosion of a tank car full of liquid propane devastated the small town of Waverly, Tennessee, shocked the nation, Learn More...

Southern But Not Country: The Interwar Career of Nashville Bandleader Francis Craig

Join the Tennessee Historical Society for the next event in a series of free, virtual discussions.  Dr. Carrie Allen Tipton, of Vanderbilt, provides a window into interwar Southern consumption and production of mainstream popular music. For more information and registration visit the THS website. This event is part of a series, Tennessee 101: the History of Tennessee Learn More...

Tennessee History Day Competition

Tennessee History Day is the state level contest for National History Day. Students from across Tennessee come to Nashville to showcase the exhibits, performances, websites, papers, and documentary films they have created. National History Day is a year-long education program for students in grades 6-12 that engages both educators and students to improve the teaching Learn More...

Carl T. Rowan, Naval Officer, Journalist, Diplomat

Warren Arts Performing Arts Center, Morrison

Join Warren Arts for a presentation and discussion by Mark Dudney about the life and legacy of locally-born journalist and diplomat, Carl Rowan. This keynote event of the Caney Fork Writer's Conference is free and open to the public. The remainder of the conference requires registration.  More details may be found here. Humanities Tennessee provided Learn More...

Reimagining America Speaker Series: Dr. Antoine Saugrain

Lewis County Public Library, 15 Kyle Street, Hohenwald 38462

Join the Lewis Co. Historical Society in welcoming Char Ollinger Waughtel, who will discuss Dr. Antoine Saugrain at the county library. The speaker series coincides with the exhibition Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis & Clark, on view in the Hohenwald Historic Depot, 112 East Main Street. The project received partial support form Humanities TN.

TN Writers/TN Stories presents Elizabeth Elkins and Scott Williams

Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

Join us as we explore biographies — each with a unique approach — of two legendary Tennessee figures, David Crockett and Timothy Demonbreun. In We Should Soon Become Respectable: Nashville's Own Timothy Demonbreun, Author Elizabeth Elkins sorts through the legends and nails down the facts in order to present the true story of "Nashville's First Citizen." In The Learn More...

Folk & Traditional Arts Days: Old Time Music

Creative Discovery Museum, 321 Chestnut St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Join the Creative Discovery Museum for an old time music concert and discussion with the players at 1pm and 3pm, and tour the museum's new Appalachian Arts exhibit to experience the sights, sounds and smells of a traditional ramp festival. Visit the museum's website for more information. The Folk & Traditional Arts series is partly supported by Learn More...

Abraham Verghese at Parnassus Books

Parnassus Books, in partnership with Humanities TN, is pleased to present an evening with Abraham Verghese as he discusses his new book, The Covenenant of Water. This is a ticketed event which will take place IN STORE on Thursday, May 18th at 6:30pm Central Time. Masks are strongly encouraged during this event.  Ticketing: Each ticket is $35.00 and includes Learn More...

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