SMART PRESERVATION:LIVABLE & SUSTAINABLE

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The Tennessee Preservation Trust presents the indelible images of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Robin Hood and the moving words of nationally esteemed    history writer James A. Crutchfield in HISTORIC TENNESSEE, a new publication that commemorates the state’s rich historical and architectural heritage. This  handsome book arrives just in time for the Christmas season and is filled with a lavish tapestry of more than 300 color photographs of ninety sites significant to the   drama of Tennessee’s colorful past – from upper East Tennessee to the Mississippi River.

The story of our state’s settlement and expansion, as well as its periods of conflict and human drama, is best evidenced today in the surviving structures and sites which were, in many instances, integral elements of the events that shaped Tennessee’s—and the nation’s—history.

Reach out and touch the mark of the ax on ancient logs felled by early settlers building new homes on the distant frontier; sit in the very room wherein visionary leaders gave birth to a new state for America; and stand on the parapet at Fort Loudoun, gaze out over Tellico Lake and ponder the now-submerged Cherokee town of Tannassy whence comes our state’s name.

Walk the marble halls of one of the nation’s oldest state capitols and hear the echo of debate deciding U. S. Constitutional ratification for Woman Suffrage, visit the Civil War battlefield at Franklin and sense the cacophonous agony and bloodshed of ten thousand American heroes, and at nearby Carnton Cemetery, hear their wives’ and mothers’ mournful sobbing. On a thumping, pulsating street in Memphis, experience the rhythm of the uniquely American music born there and sent out to the world by a blues man named Handy. And, a few miles up the road in a small town called Henning, hear the stories of one African-American family’s journey from slavery to Pulitzer Prize-winning author.