August 3, 2023
Tennessee Travel: The 15 Best Day Trips from Nashville
My radius for traveling over the past few years has shrunk from that of “the world is my oyster” to “where can I get from...
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January 8, 2020
How Many Small Towns Get Tourism So Very Wrong
It’s been awhile since I stepped atop my gilded pedestal and took a cold, hard look at how poorly many small towns do tourism. But it’s a...
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October 7, 2019
Anti-Bullying Mural in Manchester: Remembering Those Touched by Suicide
We were on our way to Oklahoma City when we heard the devastating news: A local teen, Channing Smith, in our former town of Manchester,...
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August 19, 2019
The Good of the Hive: Where Mural Art and Activism Collide
There are some people who, when you meet them online, you immediately know are your people—long before you ever cross paths in person. For...
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May 20, 2019
Coming to Bonnaroo? Here’s What to Do in Manchester, Tennessee
With Bonnaroo just around the corner, it was high time I update my post on what to do in Manchester, Tennessee, particularly as the area has...
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March 14, 2019
A Tale of Public Art, Private Property and Government Bullying
It all started innocently enough. SVV and I, long-time mural chasers, wanted to bring public art to our former town of Manchester,...
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June 21, 2018
Should I Go to Bonnaroo If I Don’t Like the Music? Absolutely
It’s an interesting thing, watching the gradual change of something that started as home-grown and has morphed into a bit of a corporate...
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June 26, 2017
Bonnaroo 2017: The Evolution of Tennessee’s Best Music Fest
It’s hard to believe that the 16th installment of Bonnaroo already came and went, and here we are, two weeks into the Bonnaroo Blues...
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June 14, 2016
Bonnaroo: The Good, The Bad, The Awesome
It should come as no surprise that my favorite four-day stretch in Tennessee each year is when Bonnaroo rolls into town. I grew up in the...
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June 25, 2015
Finding Balance at Bonnaroo
If you’re anything like my crew and attending a major festival like Bonnaroo, chances are that you have a game plan. In our case, it was...
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