What is something you have done in the past year to make yourself a better teacher? What’s your biggest challenge? What words of advice would you offer a new teacher? Recently, twelve educators from across Middle Tennessee were invited to come to NPT and answer those questions, as well as many others, as a component [...]
Beauty is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley’s funny, irreverent, inspiring and fascinating documentary about Tennessee-born artist Wayne White, makes its Nashville premiere at the Nashville Film Festival on Thursday April 19 at 6:30 pm. The documentary follows Wayne’s story from his humble roots as a puppeteer in Nashville to his work as one of the creative forces [...]
This Thanksgiving, the Tennessee Crossroads Marathon will run across both our channels (NPT & NPT2) for 15-hours. Beginning at 7:oo a.m. on NPT2. After a twelve hour run on NPT2, the marathon will switch over to NPT at 7:00 p.m. for three more hours of your favorite Crossroads episodes. For more detailed information on times [...]
Another in our new blog series all about those iconic Nashville-area places and things that could one day wind up in a Memories of Nashville show, but don’t need to yet. Inspired by the near-loss of Elliston Soda Place in the summer of 2011, we want to highlight those places that have been open for [...]
“Because you don’t have to wait for something to be gone to revisit it.” Several weeks ago, we told you about our plans for a new blog series all about those iconic Nashville-area places and things that could one day wind up in a Memories of Nashville show, but don’t need to yet. Inspired by [...]
We’re extremely excited to bring you a new episode of our informative and educational Next Door Neighbor series next week! In the past, we’ve brought you together with Nashville’s Kurdish, Somali, Hispanic and Bhutanese communities (now available for viewing online), and this time we’ll introduce you to Nashville’s burgeoning Sudanese neighbors. Sudan is the largest [...]
It’s no surprise that we at Tennessee Crossroads love to get out and enjoy all the unique people and places around the state. But we particularly love this time of year, because even those places that we seasoned travelers have visited time and time again offer a different experience during the month of December. We’re [...]
As I have previously noted in another post, as part of the Tennessee Crossroads team, I am often responsible for answering a variety of questions about our show. I can’t count the number of times I have received emails and phone calls asking when we are going to be re-airing a particular Tennessee Crossroads episode. [...]
Back in December, Tennessee public television stations launched the Tennessee Channel, a four-hour block of Tennessee-centered programs. Each station provides programming for the Tennessee Channel which is then compiled and broadcast statewide each weekend. The programs air throughout Tennessee on Saturdays from 5:00-9:00 p.m. CT, and Sundays from 1:00-5:00 p.m. CT. Here in Nashville, you [...]
As part of the Tennessee Crossroads team, I am often responsible for answering a variety of questions about our show. For the most part these questions can be divided into two categories: questions relating to how one might go about watching, or rewatching, a particular Crossroads episode or segment, or requests for travel or entertainment [...]
