Margaret Littman

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Women ownership of music venues is not new to Nashville. One of the most famous venues in the city was once owned by a woman, and it was under her tenure that it cemented its spot in music history.

For many people, Route 66 evokes a specific kind of experience. It’s car culture. It’s Jack Kerouac. It’s neon signs. It’s even Radiator Springs in the animated movie “Cars.” A new set of virtual lesson plans looks to expand this perception.

In 2022, B&H Kosher Dairy Restaurant sas the only New York restaurant to receive a Backing Historic Small Restaurants grant from American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. With the monies received, Fawzy and Aleksandra “Ola” Abdelwahed, B&H’s proprietors since 2003, have upgraded the restaurant’s exterior by making it look more like it did back in the day.

The work of Helen Torr was oft-overshadowed by that of her husband, Arthur Dove. Thanks to a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and an innovative approach for telling women’s stories on the part of the Trust and the The Heckscher Museum of Art, that’s no longer the case.

Whether you love history, art, or nature, the Volunteer State has a hotel experience for you.

From the expanse of the Mississippi River to the heights of the Great Smoky Mountains, here are the Tennessee boutique hotels, camping compounds, and storied resorts we suggest for exploring Memphis, Nashville, and beyond.

It’s been 17 years since the phrase “Me Too” was coined as a means of bringing awareness to sexual abuse and harassment. Sixty years since the Equal Pay Act passed. Six years since celebrity chef John Besh left his own company in a flurry of headlines after allegations of sexual harassment by 25 different women.
Yet here we are.

Between 1819 and 1969, the United States operated more than 400 boarding schools in 37 states designed to culturally assimilate Indigenous children in the United States—a practice of forced labor and mistreatment of children as young as four years old, that often included physical and emotional abuse. Complete erasure of their cultural identity was the goal.

Food Technology talked to Stellar Granola cofounders Chrissy Camba and Emily Knapp about bootstrapping a startup, 16-hour days, granola as a salad topper, and what they need next to expand their business.

Goldie Finkelstein was just 13 when she was sent to Wiener Graben, a work camp that later became a concentration camp. The youngster lost her entire family in the war, and among the things she never learned from them was how to cook. She had no family recipes and, according to her son, when she married Sol Finkelstein, also a Holocaust survivor, she didn’t know how to boil water or cook an egg.
Eventually, other survivors taught Goldie the necessary skills, and she was a quick learner.

Chef Sean Brock sees a future in kudzu.

Mark Guarino’s new book, Country and Midwestern, explores the difficult row country artists had to hoe in Chicago, and how the Windy City helped usher in a folk music revival that was born of those early country music sounds. Here are five things we learned about the history of country music…and not one of them takes place in Nashville.

After Phebe Hayes retired from her position as professor of communicative disorders and as dean of the College of General Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she immediately threw herself into a new research project. Hayes, a person whose mind is never idle, began volunteering in the genealogy section of her local library. She came across a book that listed the doctors of Iberia Parish from 1859 to 1959. “None of the doctors were Black. None of the doctors were women."

Rousemary Vega gets emotional when she walks down Augusta Boulevard in Humboldt Park. It's hard for the mother of five to see the former Lafayette Elementary School with its signs now touting the Chicago High School for the Arts.
"They closed Lafayette School and gave it to another school. Do you know how f***ed up that is?" she asks. "Me and my children have to walk past it every day. And now that building is not open to the community."

When Butch Spyridon walked into Leslie Jones’ office in early 2022, Jones was skeptical.
“When a White man walks into a Black man’s office in a Black neighborhood and says he wants to help without wanting anything in return, you’re skeptical,” he says. “I have a few older brothers who are still skeptical.”
But skepticism or no, Jones knew he needed to at least listen to what Spyridon had to say.