Tina Turner’s Nutbush city is a real place
Tina Turner’s raucous ode to her hometown is loud and rowdy, unlike the quiet, sleepy town itself A church house, gin houseA school house, outhouse On highway number nineteenThe people keep …
You can tour a cave with ancient Native American cave art in Tennessee
Dunbar Cave State Park: Walk through a sacred cave with ancient Native American petroglyphs Scroll to bottom to read my experience on the cave tour Tennessee is blessed with some …
Help me identify this: Is it a pottery fragment or just a rock?
Is it natural or man-made? I found this object in a stream bed while hiking in middle Tennessee and thought it was just a curious piece of stone -- but i'm not really certain. What's your opinion?
Exploring an Abandoned Farmhouse in Tennessee [video]
Photos and video from a walk through an abandoned farm with a ruined farmhouse and collapsing barn. I recently had the opportunity to (legally) walk though the grounds of an …
From today’s Instagram: Two large fuzzy acorns from a bur oak tree
Bur oak trees produce the largest acorns of any North American oak tree (and they’re fuzzy!) On my hike today I picked up these two huge bur oak acorns with …
The legend of the Tennessee pygmies
Before Bigfoot, before UFOs, America was caught in the grips of a craze that originated in Tennessee: the legend of the Tennessee pygmies In the early 1800s, a rash of …
[Video] Landscape photography at an ancient Native American mound site
Photographing the landscape at Sellars Farm Archaeological Site I recently took a short drive down a country road not far from Nashville, but 1,000 years into the past. In nearby Lebanon, …