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View of Downtown Nashville from Shelby Street Bridge

This view of downtown Nashville was taken by Southern Edition editor Greg Freeman on February 9, 2008 from atop the Shelby Street Bridge.

Situated along the Cumberland River, Nashville is a growing metropolis, attracting tourists and conventioneers from all over the world. Though widely known as Music City because of its significance in the recording industry (particularly in the field of country music), Nashville has become an important visual and performing arts center in the South.

Two of the city's most important cultural institutions have opened since the beginning of the 21st Century. The Frist Center for the Visual Arts at 919 Broadway opened in April 2001. Formerly the main post office, the building containing the Frist collection was constructed in the early 1930s under the direction of Marr & Holman, a Nashville architectural firm. A combination of classical and Art Deco styling, the building is located adjacent to the century-old Union Station---A Wyndham Historic Hotel.

Located in the growing SoBro (South of Broadway) district at the terminus of the Shelby Street Bridge, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, opened in 2006, is home to the critically acclaimed Nashville Symphony Orchestra. The building features Orpheus and Eurydice, a limestone relief sculpture by Ray Kaskey, above the center's main entrance. The Birth of Apollo, a bronze nude sculpture by Casey Eskridge, towers above a fountain on the center's grounds at the corner of Symphony Place and Fourth Avenue. In February 2008, the Nashville Symphony secured three Grammy awards for its CD, Made in America.

(This photo appeared on the home page of Southern Edition from February 14, 2008 to ?

The Million Dollar Quartet

(Pictured are Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley)

On December 4, 1956, perhaps the most famous of all impromptu jam sessions took place at Sam Phillips' Sun Studios in Memphis, the "Home of the Blues" and "Birthplace of Rock and Roll." The Complete Million Dollar Session (2003, Charly Records, United Kingdom) was one of several commercial releases resulting from the informal recording.

In addition to Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, other Memphian music stars, current and former residents, include the "Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin; pop superstar Justin Timberlake; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Al Green; Grammy- and Academy Award-winning singer/actor Isaac Hayes; blues icons B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson; southern gospel's legendary Blackwood Brothers; Dove-winning contemporary Christian singer Clay Crosse; noted black gospel composer Rev. William Herbert Brewster Sr.; and W. C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues." Artists recording for Memphis-based Stax Records (aka "Soulsville USA") included Hayes, Otis Redding, the Staples Singers and Booker T. and the MG's while Sun Records' catalogue was highlighted by recordings of Presley, Cash, Perkins, Lewis, King and Roy Orbison.

Thanks to the collective efforts of Sun Studios, Beale Street, Soulsville: Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum, Center for Southern Folklore, W. C. Handy House & Museum and the Blues Foundation, today's Memphis visitors are both enlightened and entertained by the diverse sounds for which the city is known.

On the surface, the Million Dollar Quartet session was little more than four great musicians having a great time singing around the piano. A closer examination, however, reveals the singers delving into their musical roots, exposing the foundation of rock & roll. Rock, soul, blues, country and gospel: they're all right at home in Memphis!

(This photo appeared on the home page of Southern Edition from December 13, 2007 to February 14, 2008.)

Rodin's The Shade at the High Museum of Art

Given to Atlanta's Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center (formerly Atlanta Art Association) by the French government in 1968, a casting of Auguste Rodin's The Shade can be seen in front of the High Museum of Art towering above a memorial to the 106 Atlantans who perished in the 1962 air crash at Orly Field near Paris.

Located in Midtown Atlanta at 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., the High Museum is arguably the American South's most important art museum. Its diverse collection includes works by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, George Bellows, Eastman Johnson, Alfred Stieglitz, Chuck Close, Walker Evans, Nellie Mae Rowe and Rev. Howard Finster. Of particular interest to southern art aficionados is the High's permanent collection installation, "Southern Vernacular: Nineteenth-Century Southern Folk Art."

Special exhibits worth noting in 2007 include "Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005" and "Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter," both of which run through September 9. For 2008, the comprehensive exhibit "Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968" is projected to be a major museum attraction. Meanwhile, until 2009 visitors can continue to enjoy the rare treasures of the Musee du Louvre without flying to Paris. In collaboration with the Louvre, the High is presenting an unprecedented series of exhibitions that trace the history and development of France's national museum.

(This photo appeared on the home page of Southern Edition from July 12-December 13, 2007.)

Autumn Harvest

This still life photograph by Southern Edition editor Greg Freeman captures some of the colors and textures of the harvest season. Mottled Indian corn with its dried shucks contrasts with the striped gourds. Burgundy ears of popcorn and flavorful apples are dwarfed by the sizable pumpkin. The pieces of pottery are from the collection of the editor. Small gourds fill a miniature cobalt blue pottery basket by noted Georgia folk potter Wayne Hewell, and the pitcher was made by Nathaniel Hewell, a 6th-generation potter from Gillsville, Georgia.

(This photo appeared on the home page of Southern Edition from November 2006 to January 17, 2007.)

Southern Landscape

A gallery containing photographs by Sherry Volrath, Matt Neal and Greg Freeman, this collection of images graced the home page of Southern Edition in its infancy. As the site was further developed, these pictures were replaced with thumbnail images and links to individual articles.

(The images that comprise "Southern Landscape" appeared on the home page of Southern Edition from May 7-June 18, 2006.)