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Mary Chapin Carpenter Shares Emmy Accolades with Nashville Public Television
Grammy-Winning Singer-Songwriter Wins for Narration of Civil War Doc on Women Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter has added an Emmy Award to her accolades. Carpenter picked up an Emmy at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 26 for her narration on the Nashville Public Television (NPT) documentary, No Going Back: Women and [...]
LIVEBLOG: Nov 7 | Women`s Fund Forum on Human Sex Trafficking in Tennessee
Join us here on Wednesday, November 7 at 9:15 a.m. for a real-time live blog of the Women’s Fund Forum on Human Sex Trafficking in Tennessee. Even though registration for the event at the First Amendment Center is now closed, you can follow along here, as well as by following the Women’s Fund Forum on [...]
Media Update: NPT Tracks `Crisis of Faith` in Episode of `TN Civil War 150` | Amy Grant Narrates
From the NPT Pressroom: UPDATED 6/12/12 to announce Amy Grant’s participation as narrator. Religion and History Scholars Provide Context on Division That Led to War; Amy Grant Narrates NASHVILLE, Tennessee – June 7, 2012 — The vast majority of Americans in the first half of the 19th Century were highly religious, overwhelmingly Christian, and believed [...]
(Media Update) Nashville Food Trucks to Mobilize for NPT
******* C’MON DOWN!!! ******** Some of Nashville’s Finest Mobile Food Vendors to Gather Outside New Whole Foods Market on McEwen Drive in Cool Springs on Saturday, December 10 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. to Benefit NPT WHO: At least eight Nashville Food Trucks (vendors TBA) will gather and be open for business outside the Whole Foods [...]
(News) NPT Visits Our Sudanese Next Door Neighbors
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 [...]
NPT Explores Secession in First of Multi-Part Documentary Series on Civil War
Together with the Renaissance Center, NPT joins nation in commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War; First Documentary airs January 3 From the NPT Pressroom: “Shall it be peace, or sword?” When Abraham Lincoln pondered how to conclude his first inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, it was these words he considered. He [...]
Tennessee Crossroads Thanksgiving Day Viewer`s Choice Marathon
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. [...]
NPT Presents The Gift: the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University
From the NPT Pressroom: NPT original production traces history and significance of art collection that is home to works by Picasso, Renoir, O’Keeffe, Cezanne, Demuth, Stieglitz, Hartley and more The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of modern art at Fisk University consists of more than 100 works by European and American artists, many of them masters, as [...]
Revisit Tennessee Crossroads on our YouTube Channel
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 [...]
Republican Candidates for TN Governor Share Forum Tonight May 25
The Tennessee Public Television Council (TPTC) and the League of Women Voters Memphis and Shelby County will tonight, Tuesday, May 25, offer voters a chance to hear from each of the four Republican candidates for Tennessee Governor. TN Gubernatorial Forum: Republican Edition will air live on NPT and across the state on public television stations [...]
