Andrew Johnson Cemetery, walkthrough Greene Co. TN.
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery was established in 1906 on a hilly tract of land outside Greeneville, TN. It included the gravesite of Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, and a small burial ground for his immediate family. In 1901, Johnson’s daughter, Margaret Johnson Patterson willed the burial ground to the federal government for use as a public park in commemoration of the former president.
The National Cemetery was administered by the War Department until 1942, when it was designated a National Monument and transferred to the NPS. The cultural landscape includes historic features from the two periods of significance, associated first with the use of the land by the Johnson family as a burial ground, and later the establishment and development of the National Cemetery by the War Department. During the first period of significance (Johnson Family Burial Ground, 1875-1906), monuments were erected within and around an elaborate cast iron fence. Contributing features from this time period, including the Andrew Johnson Monument (1878), are present today.
Most of the remaining historic features date to the second period of significance (War Department era, 1906 1942), which encompasses the development of the National Cemetery landscape under the War Department. This period is reflected by the presence of features associated with the original War Department design, including buildings and structures (cemetery wall and gate, lodge, stable, rostrum), roads (Monument Drive, Service Road), the original nine grave sections, walkways, flagstaff, and drainage features. The World War I Machine Gun Monument (1931) also dates to this era.
Memorial approach (A.J. National Cemetery: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, NPS, 2009)
Memorial approach
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, NPS, 2009
Individual features and their arrangement across the landscape convey a clear connection with the two periods of significance. The purpose of this cemetery as it was so designated in 1906 – to honor the veterans of our armed forces and commemorate the 17th U.S. President – has not been altered. When NPS policy put an end to burials in the National Cemetery in 1942, public outcry was so persistent that officials overturned the policy. The original site mission to preserve the cemetery as it was at the end of the War Department era in 1942 was compromised by the plan to maximize burial space within the cemetery.
After the burial of Johnson in 1875, the gravesite expanded into a small family plot with the Johnson Monument as its nexus. Through its architecture and arrangement, the Johnson family plot conveys characteristics of the rural cemetery movement and the romantic ideals that characterized American funerary architecture in the late Victorian era.
The rural cemetery movement began in 1831 and went on to forge a new class of cemetery. Skilled architects were employed in the designs that were characterized by their location on the outskirts of cities and the presence of winding pathways, vistas and architecture that fostered a contemplative atmosphere. The Johnson family burial ground conveys the defining characteristics of the movement. The family plot was established at an elevated site on the outskirts of town with expansive views. A winding road provided the ascent to the gravesite typical in rural cemetery designs, intended to foster an appreciation of the setting. The War Department began their transformation of the landscape in 1906 and retained these features.
The Johnson cemetery plot (A.J. Cemetery: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, NPS, 2009)
The Johnson cemetery plot
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, NPS, 2009
After the transfer of the family plot from Johnson’s heir to the federal government, the War Department took steps to begin the transformation of the landscape into a traditional national cemetery in 1908. Andrew Johnson National Cemetery was developed following design standards established under General Montgomery C. Meigs in the 1870s. The General Development Plan of 1908 included the layout of the cemetery lodge, cemetery roads, memorial approach and walkways, flagstaff, stable, nine grave sections, cemetery wall and gate, drainage features, and the cemetery rostrum.
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Episode 2921.3 | Al Voecks - Tribute | Tennessee Crossroads
Our Own Al Voecks who produced Tennessee Crossroads stories for 17 years and who was a big Radio personality in Nashville, TN for years, was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. We thought it was time to share some of Al's legacy with you. We start with Al's first year in TV in Iowa and close with a part of his presentation at The Radio Hall of Fame. And today he will be here on set to share with us more of his life with Tennessee Crossroads.
How to Say or Pronounce USA Cities — Halls, Tennessee
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Remembering Our Heroes At The Tennessee Museum Of Aviation
Memories are a priceless treasure that will last forever if they are shared. Our country’s history must be preserved if younger generations are to learn and grow. In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer talks to Vietnam War Veteran, Mr. Don Campbell about an amazing collection of memorabilia at the Tennessee Aviation Museum in beautiful Sevierville, Tennessee! Today’s show is sponsored by The City of Sevierville, the east coast’s hottest most affordable eco-travel destination for families, couples and holiday weekends. If you want to relax, reconnect with nature and have the time of your life, please check out VisitSevierville.com!
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Veterans Day
Recorded live at the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum, this special honors area veterans with special music, guest speakers and student letters.
L-2M Grasshopper at Air Force Museum
This L-2M is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. According to the display's description, The L-2 was a military adaptation of Taylorcraft;s pre-war commercial Tandem Trainer. Initially designated the O-57, the L-2 performed service tests in the summer of 1941 during maneuvers in Louisiana and Texas, where it operated in various support roles such as a light transport and courier. When American ground forces entered combat during World War II, the US Army Air Forces used the L-2 in much the same way as World War I observation balloons-spotting enemy troop and supply concentrations and directing artillery fire. The L-2 also conducted other types of liaison and transport duties that required short takeoff and landing aircraft. The L-2 on display was donated by Staff Sergeant Nelson K Corbin of Memphis, Tennessee, in May 1964.
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Then and Now Photographs of Union Civil War Veterans: Part 6
Portraits of Union soldiers who served with Company H and Company K of the 13th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War paired with later portraits of them in the late 1800's and early 1900's. From the book Pictorial History Thirteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers War of 1861-1865.
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Flash Patriotism
while waiting for the storm to pass members of the chorus performing in the capital fourth concert, decided to throw a impromptu rehearsal and i think its just what everyone needed. a little flash display of patriotism! Yay America!
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Blackburn speaks on 2019 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees 10 15 19
Marsha Blackburn was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018, and is currently serving her first term representing the state of Tennessee. Before her election to the Senate, Marsha represented Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District.
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Remarks at Completion Ceremony of the U.S. Diplomacy Center Pavilion
Secretary Kerry, joined by former Secretaries of State Madeleine K. Albright, Colin L. Powell, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, deliver remarks celebrating completion of the U.S. Diplomacy Center Pavilion on January 10, 2017. A full transcript is available at More information is available at
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Reflections on the First Fifty Years of the Peabody Museum, 1866–1916
Curtis Hinsley, Regents’ Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Cultural Studies, Northern Arizona University
The Peabody Museum was founded at a time of epistemological and political turmoil, seven years after the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and one year after the end of the Civil War. The chaotic decades following the war proved to be an era of unprecedented economic opportunity, but also a time of corruption, disillusionment, and oppression. In the world of instruction, museums held the promise of teaching not only scientific facts, but proper values as well; a museum of anthropology might serve a vital moral function in the emerging society. As Peabody director Frederic Putnam wrote in 1891: “Many an indifferent idler straggling into a well-arranged museum goes forth with new ideas and fresh interests” to enrich “an otherwise aimless and weary life.” In this lecture Curtis Hinsley will consider the hopes and intentions of the Peabody Museum in its early years.
Presented as part of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology's 150th anniversary.
Bristol VA-TN A Good Place to Live
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Bristol is a border town in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. It is known to be the birthplace of country music, as the famous Bristol Sessions were recorded here in 1927 and marked the commercial debuts for artists such as Jimmy Rogers, and the Carter Family.
The city is also very well known for it's NASCAR track, Bristol Motor Speedway, also known as The World's Fastest Half-Mile for it's high banks and 1/2 mile length.
Main Street, in the downtown area is the dividing state line with the Virginia side running west, and the Tennessee side running East.
Being the birthplace of country music, the city is host to many music festivals each year with the biggest being The Rhythm and Roots Reunion.
Memphis, Dr. King, and the Road to Room 306
In January, dramaturg Dustin Trabert made a trip to Memphis to visit the historic Lorraine Motel in preparation for his work on CCCT's production of THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall.
Memphis, Tennessee: “home of the blues, FedEx, Elvis Presley, Rendezvous barbecue, and hoodoo.” In this way does playwright Katori Hall describe her hometown, setting of her play The Mountaintop, a captivating reimagining of the last night of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, spent in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel.
America’s racial past is inscribed in the very geography of Memphis. The city sits at the mouth of the fertile Mississippi delta, as its ancient Egyptian namesake sat on the Nile. It even has a pyramid. But Egypt’s agricultural economy was never as dependent on slavery as that of the American South; Memphis was a center for the trade in both cotton and slaves.
In 1866, a year after the Civil War, a riot against Freedmen and black Union Army veterans left 46 black citizens dead and many of their homes, churches, and schoolhouses burned to the ground. The 14th amendment, intended to guarantee full citizenship to former slaves, was passed directly in its wake.
By King’s day, in 1950, though African-Americans constituted 37% of Memphis’s population, they occupied 65% of the city’s substandard housing; most majority-black neighborhoods lacked basic improvements like paved streets, curbs, and gutters. A contemporary map of the city reveals how segregated the city remains, even today.
But Memphis has also become a center of American culture. The American music tradition – blues, jazz, gospel, and rock and roll - flowed upstream, out of the delta, honed in the nightclubs of Beale Street and the Stax and Sun recording studios. In the deeply segregated Jim Crow era, the humble Lorraine Hotel and its later motel addition was one of the few open to the black luminaries of the entertainment world who passed through the city.
The Lorraine Motel, situated on Mulberry Street in the south edge of downtown Memphis, is a scant mile and yet a world away from Memphis’s high-toned Peabody Hotel, with its ducks paraded to and from a marble fountain each afternoon. Its neighborhood was historically, and in King’s day, predominantly black; Katori Hall’s mother grew up just around the corner. Today dilapidated shotgun homes and warehouses are giving way to gentrification and a new identity for the neighborhood: the South Main Arts District.
The Lorraine today, along with the boarding house across the open courtyard from where James Earl Ray fired a single bullet, is the site of the National Civil Rights Museum, tracing black history in the United States from the slave trade to the present, with a special emphasis on the King years from 1955 to 1968. Following exhibits on bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and iconic marches, the narrative solemnly gives way to Dr. King’s last campaign, for the labor rights of the sanitation workers of Memphis, a fight that was to act as prelude to a broader Poor People’s Campaign.
Room 306 itself, where King and his closest associate, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, usually stayed, has, after decades of neglect, been restored to its 1968 appearance, as though Dr. King had just stepped outside, soon to return. If Room 306 remains eternally frozen in a pre-assassination past, one of countless places where a tired and tireless leader lay his head, then the balcony, with its perpetual wreath of remembrance and the square of new concrete, replacing that once stained with blood, is forever marked as a site where a martyr breathed his last.
And so the Lorraine Motel stands, with Ford’s Theatre and Dealey Plaza, as one of the indelible points on our map of political violence, a site where the possibilities of America took an irrevocable turn, some years ago, on April 4, 1968.
Remembering Jim Bunning, Cortez Kennedy, Dina Merrill, Gregg Allman
A Perfect Father’s Day
A PITCHER AND A SENATOR, A HURRICANE AND A SEAHAWK, AN HERIESS AND AN ACTRESS, AND A ROCKER AND CHER’S HUSBAND
Jim Bunning was the Hall Of Fame pitcher who won 100 games in both leagues, pitching for the Philadelphia Phillies and Detroit Tigers. He pitched two no-hitters including a perfect game on Father’s Day 1964. Later eh was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and then to the Senate. Cortez Kennedy was the Hall of Fame defensive lineman for University of Miami and then the Seattle Seahawks, renowned for his quickness and strength. Dina Merrill was the heiress turned actress, daughter of E.F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post who went on to a successful acting career and a twenty-year marriage to actor Cliff Robertson. Gregg Allman was the singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the Allman Brothers, one of the first bands of the Southern Rock genre.
James Paul David Bunning (October 23, 1931 – May 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher and later a politician who represented constituents from Kentucky in both chambers of the United States Congress. He is the sole Major League Baseball athlete to have been elected to both the United States Senate and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bunning pitched from 1955 to 1971 for the Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers. When Bunning retired, he had the second-highest total career strikeouts in Major League history; he currently ranks 17th. As a member of the Phillies, Bunning pitched the seventh perfect game in Major League Baseball history on June 21, 1964, the first game of a Father's Day doubleheader at Shea Stadium, against the New York Mets. The perfect game was the first since 1880 in the National League.[1] Bunning was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1996 after election by the Hall's Veterans Committee.
After retiring from baseball, Bunning returned to his native northern Kentucky and was elected to the Fort Thomas city council, then the Kentucky Senate, in which he served as minority leader. In 1986, Bunning was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky's 4th congressional district, and served in the House from 1987 to 1999. He was elected to the United States Senate from Kentucky in 1998 and served two terms as the Republican junior U.S. Senator.
Cortez Kennedy (August 23, 1968 – May 23, 2017) was an American football defensive tackle who played his entire eleven-season career with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012.[1] He redefined and expanded the possibilities of how a large-bodied interior lineman could be used.
He was the third overall selection in the 1990 draft by the Seahawks, and was unsigned until two days before the beginning of the season. Kennedy was named to the Pro Bowl in 1991. In 1992, having recorded 14 quarterback sacks, he received the NFL Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press despite the Seahawks 2–14 record. He switched his jersey number to 99 that season in honor of close friend Jerome Brown, and was named First- or Second-team All-Pro five times.
Dina Merrill (born Nedenia Marjorie Hutton; December 29, 1923 – May 22, 2017) was an American actress, heiress, socialite, businesswoman, and philanthropist.
On advice from her half-sister's (then) husband, she adopted the stage name Dina Merrill, borrowing from Charles E. Merrill, a famous stockbroker like her father.[8] Merrill made her debut on the stage in the play The Mermaid Singing in 1945.
During the late 1950s and 1960s, Merrill was believed to have intentionally been marketed as a replacement to Grace Kelly,[2] and in 1959 she was proclaimed Hollywood's new Grace Kelly.[9]
Merrill's film credits included Desk Set (1957), A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958), Don't Give Up the Ship (1959), Operation Petticoat (1959, with Cary Grant, who had been married to her cousin, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton), The Sundowners (1960), BUtterfield 8 (1960), The Young Savages (1961), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), I'll Take Sweden (1965), The Greatest (1977), A Wedding (1978), Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), Anna to the Infinite Power (1983), Twisted (1986), Caddyshack II (1988), Fear (1990), True Colors (1991), The Player (1992), Suture (1993) and Shade (2003)
Gregory LeNoir Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American musician, singer, keyboardist and songwriter best known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. He was born and spent much of his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, before relocating to Daytona Beach, Florida. He and his brother, Duane Allman, developed an interest in music in their teens, and began performing in the Allman Joys in the mid-1960s. In 1967, they relocated to Los Angeles and were renamed the Hour Glass, releasing two albums for Liberty Records
26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (HIST 119)
Having dealt with the role of violence and the Supreme Court in bringing about the end of Reconstruction in his last lecture, Professor Blight now turns to the role of national electoral politics, focusing in particular on the off-year Congressional election of 1874 and the Presidential election of 1876. 1874 saw the return of the Democrats to majority status in the Senate and the House of Representatives, as voters sick of corruption and hurt by the Panic of 1873 fled the Republicans in droves. According to many historians, the contested election of 1876, and the Compromise of 1877, which followed it, marked the official end of Reconstruction. After an election tainted by fraud and violence, Republicans and Democrats brokered a deal by which Republican Rutherford B. Hayes took the White House in exchange for restoration of home rule for the South.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Exhibitions and Elections of 1876
11:21 - Chapter 2. The Off-Year Congressional Election of 1874: Shifts in Party Representation
22:26 - Chapter 3. Confusion in Rhetoric and Votes: The Presidential Election of 1876
37:16 - Chapter 4. The Ensuing Election Dispute and Compromise of 1877
49:48 - Chapter 5. The Return of Home Rule in the South and the End of Reconstruction
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This course was recorded in Spring 2008.