Nashville, Tennessee with author Trish Milburn

Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee!

 

 

With author, Trish Milburn (aka Tricia Mills)

 

 

Trish writes contemporary romance for Harlequin Americanunder her own name and young adult novels for Razorbill under the name Tricia Mills. She’s a charter member of Music City Romance Writers in Nashville, Tenn., and currently serves on the RWA Board of Directors as one of two Region 3 Directors.

 

 

Why Nashville?

 

Live here

 

Nashville is friendly with lots to do, even if you’re not a country music fan. Second Avenue downtown is filled with clubs. There are several urban and state parks in the area. One of the prettiest is Radnor Lake State Park, known as “Nashville’s Walden.” There are many historic homes, a great art gallery at the First Center, and several professional sports teams.

 

 

Hot local topic

 

This year, Nashville was hit with the worst flooding in its history, causing more than $1.5 billion worth of damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure and the loss of several lives. It caused tremendous damage to the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, unfortunately less than three months before RWA was supposed to have our conference there. We were forced to move to Orlando, Florida. The good that hascome out of the flooding, however, is a tremendous volunteer spirit and outpouring of caring – neighbors helping neighbors, citizens helping strangers, record numbers of people signing up for volunteer organizations. We’re not called the Volunteer State for nothing.

 

On a happier note, Nashville is, of course, known for country music. One of our biggest events is the CMA Music Festival each summer where the country stars come out in force and perform concerts all over downtown and at LP Field (where our NFL team, the Tennessee Titans, play).

 

 

What is the city known for?

 

The Parthenon, which is a full-scale model of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was built in 1897 for the state’s Centennial Celebration and stands in the middle of Centennial Park, across from Vanderbilt University. Inside is an art gallery and a full-scale replica of a statue of Athena.

 

 

Famous people

 

The Allman Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Bettie Page, Annie Potts, Reese Witherspoon

 

 

Ethnic communities

 

Nashville has a large Latino community, as many American cities do now. One of the interesting ethnic notes is that we have a large Kurdish population here. Nashville was one of the American polling places for Iraqi citizens living in the U.S. during Iraq’s elections. There’s a fair size Laotian population, plus many other ethnic groups. Many ethnic restaurants and stores can be found along Nolensville Road.

 

 

One must see, can’t miss thing you would recommend to someone new to the city

 

One of my favorite places is The Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson. It includes their home, the grounds of their plantation, and the gravesites of President Jackson and his wife, Rachel.

 

 

Links

 

http://www.visitmusiccity.com/visitors/

http://www.trishmilburn.com/