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Fall 2010 Lecture Series



Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

Discussion by author John Lukacs

Date:Thursday, September 16th at 5 p.m.

Location: Fort Negley Visitor Center, 1100 Fort Negley Blvd., Nashville, TN 37203

Escape from Davao tells the story of ten American soldiers who executed a daring escape from a Japanese prison camp in the Phillippines during World War II. Brigadier General Austin Shofner, a native of Bedford County, TN, was one of those soldiers.







Nashville Sports History: Stories from the Stands

Discussion by author Bill Traughber

Date: Tuesday, October 12 at 5 p.m.

Location: Fort Negley Visitor Center, 1100 Fort Negley Blvd., Nashville, TN 37203

Enjoy this all-access pass to more than a century of sports in the Music City packed into one exciting volume! Watch from the bleachers as Ty Cobb practices with the Vanderbilt football team and Babe Ruth blasts home runs out of the old Sulphur Dell Ball Park, or go all the way back to 1843 and witness what was then the richest horse race in the world at the Nashville Race Course. Included are excerpts from local sportswriters like the legendary Grantland Rice and over forty historic photographs from the playing field.





Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest

Discussion by author J. Roderick Heller, III

Date: Thursday, December 2 at 5 p.m.

Location: Fort Negley Visitor Center, 1100 Fort Negley Blvd., Nashville, TN 37203

A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775–1840) epitomized the "American democrat" who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose largely by his own ability to become the Old Southwest's greatest criminal lawyer and one of the first radical political reformers in the fledgling United States. In Democracy's Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy's life typifies the archetypal, post–founding fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions.

This lecture series will take place at Ft. Negley, located at 1100 Ft. Negley Boulevard in Nashville near Greer Stadium.




24th Annual Genealogical Seminar
Sponsored by: the Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society, Tennessee Historical Society, and Brentwood Public Library
When: Saturday, November 20, 2010
Where: Brentwood Public Library
Topic: Working Smarter: Sources and Strategies for Finding Your Family's Past

Featuring Elizabeth Shown Mills as seminar speaker


To register, click here to visit the Middle Tennessee Genealogical Website.


Tennessee History Day
Date: April 2, 2011
Location: Legislative Plaza

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