Sloane’s Prom
Tag: Nashville
Card Stories: Dolly Parton
9 to 5 hit the airwaves in early 1981, & dolly parton entered my life for the first time, followed a couple of years later by islands in the stream with kenny rogers, then, for me, dolly disappeared, it really wasn’t until i moved to nashville in 2020 that i truly came to understand the power of dolly parton, i taught a three week course on women in country music, studying parton & her music, coat of many colors, i will always love you, jolene, these songs are peerless, not to mention her imagination library, which has donated over 100 million books to children all over world, her dollywood theme park, opened in 1981, employing over 4,000 people, from a one room cabin in sevier county, east tennessee, to dolly for president bumper stickers, she is the american dream incarnate.
This DOLLY PARTON card can be purchased here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/375325625121
With General John Bradley
John is one of our Nashville friends. He is a great and kind man. To learn more about General Bradley and his nonprofit work in Afghanistan, please visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Bradley & https://lamia.org/
Happy 17th Sloane!!
Dinner at Husk
Ode to Harpeth Hall
You students, you plaid, you dress uniforms
You Souby lawn grass, you magnolia shine
You red bricks, you Ann Scott Carell library
You Wallace, you Massey, you Bullard
You green hills, and rain, and snow sometimes
You cardinals darting from tree to tree
You middle school girls skipping and free
You AP scholars, you Harkness discussions
You United States history, your voices so bright
I sing your praise for days now past
Though some may say he’s a California lad
The truth is, he’s really quite sad
Harpeth Hall you have made your mark
And hark, you who I taught, I may be gone
but you still have my heart
Best Meatball Sub in Nashville: Little Hats Market
After a months long quest, we have discovered THE best meatball sub in all of Nashville! 2nd place was Bellagio Pizza & Subs. 3rd place was Nicoletto’s Italian Kitchen. The quality of ingredients (bread, meatballs, sauce, cheese), along with the proportional balance, made Little Hats Market the clear favorite. The secret ingredient of their sub? Pesto!
At McKay’s
the poetry section is a jumble of
paperbacks, anthologies, Chaucer
Elizabeth Bishop, Neruda, Donne
Dickinson, page after bent page
used books, leaning paper spines
the dead supporting each other
most of their words long forgotten
USA $29.95, once the price of wisdom
now two dollars, time erases money
and memories of Isla Negra
Amherst lilacs, and all the rest
Ganier Ridge
Daniel W. Polk 