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Nashville's Ice Has Finally Thawed, But Historic Storm Continues to Threaten Music Community

Nashville's Ice Has Finally Thawed, But Historic Storm Continues to Threaten Music Community

Rolling Stone Music Now — Nashville's January ice storm left more than 230,000 people without power for days and had a long-lasting effect on local clubs and players.

Clarksville, Tennessee, has a downtown district made for wandering

Clarksville, Tennessee, has a downtown district made for wandering

Atlanta Magazine — It’s not as well-known as Tennessee’s other ‘villes, Nashville and Knoxville, but Clarksville, the state’s fifth-largest city is worth visiting for its reliably pink sunsets and a compact, walkable downtown district chock-full of independent shops, bars, and a central urban park.

How to Throw the Perfect Nashville Bachelorette Party

How to Throw the Perfect Nashville Bachelorette Party

Condé Nast Traveler — Celebrating upcoming nuptials with a Nashville bachelorette party? Here's where to go, what to do and eat, and where to stay, recommended by a local.

Access Matters - alive magazine

Access Matters - alive magazine

Alive — Most of us strive to eat a healthy diet, rich in plant-based foods. Studies show that healthy eating is tied to our overall wellness and disease prevention, including reduced risk of heart disease, certain cancers, and diabetes. One study from the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital even linked the consumption of a plant-heavy diet to lessening the severity of COVID-19 if contracted.

Walden Mutual aims to serve New England's food community

Walden Mutual aims to serve New England's food community

Independent Banker Magazine — As the first mutual bank to open in decades, Walden Mutual Bank is gearing up to support New England's farmers, food service industry and sustainable food community. By Margaret Littman If it opens its doors as planned in January 2022, Walden Mutual Bank will be the first new mutual bank charter in New Hampshire in a century and the country's first new mutual charter in five decades.

Walden Mutual aims to serve New England's food community

Walden Mutual aims to serve New England's food community

Independent Banker Magazine — As the first mutual bank to open in decades, Walden Mutual Bank is gearing up to support New England's farmers, food service industry and sustainable food community. By Margaret Littman If it opens its doors as planned in January 2022, Walden Mutual Bank will be the first new mutual bank charter in New Hampshire in a century and the country's first new mutual charter in five decades.

Civil War Attraction: Vicksburg National Military Park

Civil War Attraction: Vicksburg National Military Park

AARP — Visit Mississippi's massive Vicksburg National Military Park - it covers more than 1,700 acres just two miles from Vicksburg - to relive a pivotal battle in the Civil War. There's much to see: 1,325 historical monuments and markers, 20 miles of reconstructed trenches, two antebellum homes, 144 cannons, a national cemetery, and a restored ironclad gunboat.

4 Medical Bill Situations You Should Contest

4 Medical Bill Situations You Should Contest

Health — If you have one of these kinds of medical bills, here's how-and why-to appeal your health insurance company's decision. Whitney Pastorek was surprised when she received a surprise medical bill for more than $400 from a radiologist whose name she didn't recognize.

Neon Dream: The Rebuilding of a Brightly Lit Beacon Boosts a Nashville Neighborhood | National Tr...

Neon Dream: The Rebuilding of a Brightly Lit Beacon Boosts a Nashville Neighborhood | National Tr...

Preservation Magazine — On the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2020, a small, masked crowd stood in a liquor store parking lot waiting for a 30-foot-tall neon sign to light up. It may sound odd, but to the neighborhood of East Nashville, this was hope.

Guide to Visiting Mammoth Cave National Park

Guide to Visiting Mammoth Cave National Park

AARP — Like most visitors to MCNP, you came to venture down into its caves - and booking a cave tour is the only way to do that. Depending on the time of year, you may have more than a dozen ranger-led tours of varying durations, difficulty and area of focus to choose from.

Guide to Visiting Hot Springs National Park

Guide to Visiting Hot Springs National Park

AARP — Welcome to Hot Springs National Park (HSNP). Without an entrance booth or gate, and with attractions both indoors and outdoors, this isn't your typical national park. With its abundant natural resource of hot spring water, people come here to do the Hot Springs Soak, a centuries-old bathing tradition, in ornate bathhouses. HSNP boasts 47 springs, 27 of which are used for bathing, soaking and drinking. Loyalists like to tout HSNP as the country's first national park. In a way, they have a point. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson named it the country's first federal reservation — a forerunner to the National Park Service, which Congress established in 1916.

Martha's Vineyard Bank's much-needed lift

Martha's Vineyard Bank's much-needed lift

Independent Banker Magazine — "It is rare that you hear a bank plan to lose money," laughs James Anthony. While he wasn't trying to hurt the bottom line, he was, like leaders at many community banks, looking at innovative ways to help clients cope with 2020. Rather than a loss, he sees it as an investment.

Nashville Moment: Brandon Donahue

Nashville Moment: Brandon Donahue

Nashville Lifestyles — You see them in souvenir shops from Gatlinburg to Gulf Shores: white backgrounds airbrush-painted with black bears in hearts, or palm trees with couples' names intertwined. These neon-colored creations evoke emotions like cotton candy: light and fluffy but fleeting. But not when the airbrush is created by Brandon Donahue.

Vending machines-the original contactless delivery systems-now deliver ramen and art to U.S. cons...

Vending machines-the original contactless delivery systems-now deliver ramen and art to U.S. cons...

Fortune — The owner of one vending machine company believes they'll have a competitive advantage as travel ramps up again: "We don't have to staff to be open, which keeps risk down for our people as well as the traveling public."

Coronavirus turns the outdoor industry's crucial spring season into its most challenging in years

Coronavirus turns the outdoor industry's crucial spring season into its most challenging in years

Fortune — "It is a terrible time for our retailers to be shut down. Yes, there's a holiday cycle, but much more, spring season is the big season," said the CEO of Toad & Co., a sustainable clothing company.

Fancy Canned Fish Are the Ultimate Quarantine Delicacy

Fancy Canned Fish Are the Ultimate Quarantine Delicacy

InsideHook — We're all being asked to step outside of our comfort zones (though perhaps not literally outside) as we shelter in place. For many of us, this means heading to the pantry and figuring out what the hell to make with the stuff we bought.

The Best Way to Watch the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival

The Best Way to Watch the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival

Fortune — Skip the crowds and get up close and on the water at one of the country's most iconic events.

Dream team | alive

Dream team | alive

ALIVE AUSTRALIA — Whatever she does, Charity Morgan is all in. The chef attended the California Culinary Academy, an affiliate of Le Cordon Bleu, which means her kitchen education was rooted in French cooking, with lots (and lots) of butter. Charity's father is Creole and her mother Puerto Rican, so her childhood food traditions included pork, seafood and more butter.

A Night at the Door With Three Memphis Bouncers | PUNCH

A Night at the Door With Three Memphis Bouncers | PUNCH

PUNCH — Memphis loves music and drinking, sometimes in that order. Even the most nondescript bar in Memphis has a noteworthy jukebox filled with old-school blues and rock n' roll, a reliable DJ, a stage for live music or a combination thereof. Drink specials are a given. So are late nights.

Night at the Door With Three Nashville Bouncers

Night at the Door With Three Nashville Bouncers

PUNCH — If you've watched a documentary on country music, a televised Tennessee Titans football game or Nashville Predators hockey game or nearly anything else filmed in Music City, you likely have a vision of Broadway-the neon-bedecked street that plays host to a Bourbon Street style of seven-days-a-week partying. Certainly, Nashville likes its liquor.

Property Tax Increases Prompt Advocacy From Local Business Owners

Property Tax Increases Prompt Advocacy From Local Business Owners

Nashville Scene — Newly formed Nashville Property Tax Coalition says businesses will close without some form of intervention

Crain's Chicago Business

Crain's Chicago Business

Trump accounts complicate the wealth gap debate

Trump accounts complicate the wealth gap debate

Crain's Chicago Business — As with many other things this administration has named after the president, there are knee-jerk reactions to Trump Accounts. Those who are inclined to support the president automatically endorse them; those who don’t, have reservations. But unlike many other policies proposed by this administration, the idea behind Trump Accounts—aiding families in building wealth from birth—has bipartisan support. And the specifics of the Trump Accounts are more complicated than a simple thumbs-up or thumbs-down.