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6-29-22

New Acquisitions to the Museum's Collection: Spring 2022

This story originally appeared in the Spring 2022 print edition of the Tennessee State Museum Quarterly Newsletter. Stickball Sticks and Ball by Jimmy Harlan and Michael Crowe, 2021 The Museum recently commissioned Eastern Band of the Cherokee artisan and woodcarver, Jimmy Harlan, to create a pair of stickball sticks for the collection. Michael Crowe, also a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, created the ball. Stickball has long been an important part of the social ... Read More
Posted by Melina Ludwig
Civil War Museum Collection Native American History Newsletter Paintings WWI

6-22-22

Painting the Smokies: Art, History, and the Making of a National Park

This story originally appeared in the Spring 2022 print edition of the Tennessee State Museum Quarterly Newsletter. By Candice Roland Candeto Born from a desire to look closely at the vast collection of the Tennessee State Museum, especially art and artifacts not permanently on display, and consider anew the stories objects tell about the past, Painting the Smokies: Art, Community, and the Making of a National Park highlights the Tennessee State Museum’s collection of ... Read More
Posted by Melina Ludwig
Exhibits Great Smoky Mountains Newsletter Paintings Tennessee History

6-16-22

The AIDS Epidemic in Tennessee: Grassroots Advocacy in the Three Grand Divisions

It was known as the Gay Disease...It was a scary time…You didn’t know if you could shake hands, if could touch, if you could just be in the same room as someone, we didn’t know for a long time how it was. Or if you had to be gay to get it. It was very bizarre at first. -Tommy Lawson (Nashville Community AIDS Activist)[1]   By Philip Staffelli-Suel The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic emerged in Tennessee in the early 1980s as in the rest of the co... Read More
Posted by Joseph Pagetta
LGBTQ History Tennessee History

6-2-22

Exploring the History of African American Lodges and Cemeteries in Tennessee

Note: Leigh Ann Gardner will read from To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead: African American Lodges and Cemeteries in Tennessee, and discuss the book with Natalie Bell — journalist, author and historian, and board member of the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Genealogical Society — on Saturday, June 11 at 11 a.m. at the Museum as part of the TN Writers | TN Stories: Author Talks at the State Museum series. The reading will be ... Read More
Posted by Joseph Pagetta
African American History Black History Reconstruction

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