Excerpt from an oral history interview with John LoPiccolo conducted on April 14, 2011 by Alyssa Buckingham and Robin Robinson as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Lieutenant LoPiccolo of the Brentwood Fire and Rescue Department...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Matt Pylkas, conducted on August 09, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Lt. Pylkas describes his rescue of two women stranded in the water and tangled in a...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with James Nelson, conducted on August 27 2011 by Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. During the flooding, Nelson describes his work with the fire department at I-24 and Bell...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Ruby Jamison, conducted on October 14 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Jamison describes the flooding of her home, her friend Joan’s home, their escape, and the...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Sgt. Steve Linn, conducted on September 7, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Sgt. Linn describes water rescues performed in Belle Meade.
The complete interview...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Kevin Penney, Office of Emergency Management Deputy Director, conducted on February 03, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Kevin Penney discusses emergency response...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Michael Sullivan, conducted on August 27, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Michael describes rescues performed with the Office of Emergency Management in South...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Michael Sullivan, conducted on August 27, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Michael talks about his experience performing rescues during the May 2010 flood.
The...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with John and Nancy O’Leary, conducted on October 31, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. John and Nancy O’Leary’s Franklin home caught fire during the flood and...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Lori Harrington conducted on 27 August 2011 by Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Lori Harrington discusses being rescued from her flooded home in the Richland Creek area of...
A postcard depicting several Nashville landmarks, including the State Penitentiary, the Confederate Monument in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the Parthenon in Centennial Park, two images of the United States Post Office and Custom House, Union Station,...
A postcard of the early St. Thomas Hospital, sometimes referred to as St. Thomas Sanitarium. The hospital is named for its founder, Bishop Thomas S. Byrne of Nashville. In 1898 he bought a mansion home in a residential West End neighborhood on...
A photograph of Middle Tennessee food industry businessmen racing turtles at the Colemere Club in Nashville, Tennessee. A photograph similar to this one appeared in the May 27, 1959 Nashville Banner newspaper with the following caption: "H. G....
A photograph of the flooded steps of Lesli Bills’s home in the Pennington Bend neighborhood during the May 2010 Nashville flood. Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of an office trailer and telephone pole collision along Antioch Pike during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon depicts the issue of Daylight Saving Time, related to Nashville in the 1960s. Nationally, some...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Craig Owensby, Public Information Officer of the Metropolitan Nashville Planning Department, conducted on March 18, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Harvey Bennett as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Lorenzana “Lonnie” Haynes, conducted on August 27 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Mr. Haynes discusses his escape from a flooded car and subsequent rescue...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Alan Murdock, conducted on May 19, 2011 by Robin Robinson as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Murdock discusses volunteer efforts and flood relief in East Nashville.
The complete...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Remziya Suleyman conducted on May 19, 2011 by Robin Robinson as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Suleyman discusses volunteer efforts and flood relief for the immigrant community in...