When people think about visiting presidential places, it’s easy to get caught up in visiting Washington, D.C. However, there are a couple of presidential sights in Nashville people can visit. Andrew Jackson and The Hermitage Andrew Jackson, who served as the seventh president from 1829 to 1837, is the most famous presidential resident of Nashville. He moved to Nashville in…
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A pint at Mill Creek Brewing in Nolensville, Tenn.
As craft beer has grown in the Southeast, Nashville has witnessed exponential growth of microbreweries across the city. The growth has spread so far that breweries are sprouting up in the suburbs like Mill Creek Brewing Company, which is located approximately 20 miles south of downtown Nashville. Located on the banks of Mill Creek (hence the brewery’s name), founder and…
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My night with the Tennessee Smokies – May 18, 2016
There are some advantages and disadvantages to having attended baseball games over the past 30 years. The biggest disadvantage for me is that while I’ve visited many over the years, I have not always written about my visits to ballparks. So my ballpark count is significantly higher than the number of stadiums I’ve written about visiting. The biggest advantage is…
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Previewing my trip through the Carolinas
Since this past December, my girlfriend and I have been planning a trip to North and South Carolina once the school year was over. She grew up in Texas and Oklahoma, so she has not visited many of the states in the Southeast. She loves to travel, and thankfully appreciates and supports my desire to visit baseball stadiums – Major…
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Reviewing my 2015 ballpark resolutions
Since 2014, I have posted baseball-related travel resolutions. If you want to see how I did meeting my 2014 resolutions, read about it here. Starting off January 1, I made four resolutions relating to visiting Minor League Baseball stadiums. In 2015, I resolve to attend @KCCougars game while visiting @ChooseChicago for #AAG2015, and hopefully share a beer with @MWLtraveler. —…
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My night with the Nashville Sounds – Aug. 6, 2015
For the second year in a row I was in Nashville for a baseball game, but this season the Sounds were playing in a brand new ballpark instead of 36-year-old Herschel Greer Stadium (read about last season’s visit here). Although I was visiting a brand new stadium in First Tennessee Park, my visit was quite different because I attended the…
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Revealing my 2015 ballpark resolutions
Last year I made resolutions to visit some Minor League Baseball stadiums and wrote about those resolutions on this blog (read the post here) and recapped my success-failure, too (read post here). So I decided that I would make some resolutions for 2015, and detail them here, too. Without further ado, my 2015 MiLB travel resolutions are… In 2015, I…
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My night with the Chattanooga Lookouts – Aug. 1, 2014
Like a lot of stadiums around the Southeast, AT&T Field is one that I visited many years before I started blogging about my stadium visits. I first visited what was called BellSouth Park in 2002, but my history of visiting stadiums in Chattanooga dates to 1993 when I saw the Lookouts play at Engel Stadium. Chattanooga is about 90 minutes from…
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Andrew Johnson Burial Place in Greeneville, Tenn.
After his departure from the presidency, Andrew Johnson returned to Greeneville, Tenn., where he lived before becoming involved in state and later national politics. He had arranged to purchase a farm outside of town, but found life boring and sought political office on multiple occasions. Johnson was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1875, but died on July 31 after…
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My night with the Nashville Sounds – June 10, 2014
The first baseball game I attended at Herschel Greer Stadium was in March 2002, when the Georgia State Panthers visited the Belmont Bruins in a three-game Atlantic Sun Conference series. The first minor league game I attended was in July 2006 between the Round Rock Express and the Sounds, when I was attending the CoSIDA Convention in Nashville. Both events…
