Images

Rock climbing is a popular seasonal activity in the Obed Wild and Scenic River national park.

View from Lilly overlook in the Obed Wild and Scenic River national park.

Aerial view of Old Hickory, ca. 1940.

Lt. McMurray of the Thirtieth (Old Hickory) Division, circa 1918.

Roland Hayes.

Vanderbilt graduate Francis Robinson served as Impresario of the Metropolitan Opera of New York City.

Opening in 1972, the Opryland theme park was a popular destination in Nashville until its closing by Gaylord Enterprises in 1997.

The Hangman at Opryland Theme Park.

Vince Gill and friends on the Opry House stage.

Owen Bradley.

Pat Head Summitt at Vanderbilt-Tennessee game, 1985.

Patsy Cline.

The Peabody Hotel at 149 Union in Memphis.

Claxton Hall at the University of Tennessee.

Phil Bredesen was elected the forty-eighth governor of Tennessee in 2002.

Mt. Pleasant Phosphate Plant in 1937.

The front of the Pink Palace Mansion, original home of the now-expanded Pink Palace Museum.

Detail of the Clyde Park Miniature Circus, a mechanical circus hand built by Clyde Park during the Great Depression. This display is part of the permanent exhibits at the Pink Palace.

As part of the permanent collection at the Pink Palace Museum, this full-size replica of a turn of the century pharmacy features a soda fountain.

The reconstructed wooden covered bridge at Port Royal State Historic Area in Clarksville.