Curious Nashville
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In Curious Nashville from Nashville Public radio, we answer your questions about the city and region. Listeners decide which question we should investigate and answer next.
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In Curious Nashville from Nashville Public radio, we answer your questions about the city and region. Listeners decide which question we should investigate and answer next.
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Little markers and a big big monument
A new podcast from WPLN and WNXP
The Kids of Rutherford County
Little Chill Beach
Come along for a hive check with the volunteers
In search of a 'space capsule' in rural Hickman County
A musical mystery to solve
4 quick answers to your musings about the state capitol
Checking in on a 2022 favorite
Exploring how Nashville became home to so many Kurds
A tree history mystery
Blocked train crossings are a chronic problem in Tennessee.
How to say "Demonbreun" and other tricky Tennessee names
Can a listener's question encourage Tennessee to change its driver exam?
Bell Road (Exit 59) is a mess for Antioch drivers.
Sticker envy prompts a question about voting stickers
Revisiting 6 years of stories with WPLN's new show This Is Nashville
In WPLN News' latest investigation, we'll holds up a mirror to see how officers treat their own. Episodes drop Sept. 29.
Why are there little creature characters embedded in some downtown Nashville streets and crosswalks?
A major change for Nashville's revolving rooftop restaurant
Four short stories that reveal surprises about everyday things
A question about 'satellite' cities opens an examination of Metro consolidation
WPLN News answers your 2020 voting questions.
In search of a possible cult in South Nashville.
Tennessee's historical monuments and the laws that govern them
Answering questions about how Nashville is perceived worldwide
The hidden history of an epic Tennessee facility
A notorious construction failure explained
Whatever Happened To The Red Grooms Carousel — And Why It Could Come Back
Answers to tricky recycling questions
Three odd stories of exotic animals in Nashville
From the proper vantage point it materializes unmistakably: A gigantic peace sign, cut into roughly 3 acres of forest next to the Nashville International Airport.
The recycling process is mysterious, filled with arbitrary rules and a vague reassurance that we’re doing the right thing for the environment. We unpack it.
Even many Nashville natives don’t know about the head-on train crash at Dutchman’s Curve on July 9, 1918. It killed 101 people — mostly African Americans — and by most counts remains the deadliest train accident in American history.
We tackle a question that’s elemental to Nashville these days: What happens to the waste when old houses get demolished?
Before he was an international superstar, Jimi Hendrix spent a year on Nashville’s Jefferson Street.
We found family graveyards that date back 200 years or more — and some owners, it turns out, relied on a generations-old practice with mysterious power to find unmarked graves.
What happened to passenger rail service in Nashville? Residents are right to be curious. Nashville is one of the largest cities in the country to have no rail connection to another city.
"I’ve heard rumors of a mysterious tunnel system winding beneath downtown Nashville. Is this true?" Here's what we found.
"In the Nashville City Cemetery, there’s a grave that says ‘Margaret H. McCutchen — She Turned From Bloodkin.’ What’s the story behind that?" Finding an answer led us on a circuitous path.
What’s with these cryptic cement markers around Tennessee?
February 24, 20234min 38sec
Alongside some Tennessee roads, you might notice knee-high cement markers — usually quite weathered — that have this inscription: “H’Y R.W.” In learning what those are all about, Curious Nashville also revisits a fascinating saga from local history.
To see photos that accompany this podcast, visit www.wpln.org/curious.