Western Edge explores country-rock from the Byrds to the Blasters and beyond
Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock is a fitting companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition of the same name, its pages fairly bursting with song.
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Mary Ellen Pethel celebrates the lives of 50 Tennessee women athletes
In Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s Trailblazers, historian Mary Ellen Pethel measures the impact of 50 years of Title IX legislation on Tennessee women’s athletics in higher education. Pethel will discuss the book at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville on March 11.
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Michelle Duster writes a children’s book about her great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth, written by Wells’ great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, captures the life and work of the groundbreaking journalist and civil rights advocate.
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Book Excerpt: Walk Through Fire
Yasmine S. Ali’s Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America recounts the 1978 derailment and explosion in Waverly, Tennessee, that killed 16 people and led to the creation of FEMA. Dr. Ali will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 27, the Humphreys County Public Library in Waverly on March 3, and the Tennessee State Museum on April 8.
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I wasn’t worried about getting there on time, but I was worried about the drug test
I was eager to run away from a bad divorce and the death of my father and was desperate for a job that would take me away from Nashville.
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Novelist Charles Dodd White discusses a pivotal year in his life as a writer
During the past year, Knoxville writer Charles Dodd White has seen three books published — a feat that would be a high point for any writer’s career. In a recent email exchange with Chapter 16, he discusses how this body of work came to be and contemplates the future of his writing life.
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