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Laying the Foundation

Mary Ellen Pethel’s Athens of the New South credits Nashville colleges for the city’s post-war prosperity

By Sean Kinch | February 16, 2018

Mary Ellen Pethel’s Athens of the New South argues that Nashville’s growth as a center for commerce and culture is rooted in the institutions of higher education that were founded in the decades after the Civil War.

Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between

By David D. Alfery, MD
Resource Publications
166 pages
$21

“A touchingly human book, Saving Grace invites us to follow Dr. David Alfery as he grows from naive medical student to caring senior physician and anesthesiologist. . . As he becomes increasingly aware that all lives do end, he becomes increasingly committed to making each day matter.”

~ Theresa Brown, RN, author of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient