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2 weeks ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
Studio Tenn’s annual One Night Only Gala this year was more than a celebration and fundraiser; it was an opportunity to highlight a milestone in the regional theater’s era with a walk down Memory Lane highlighting musical performances of past shows and a few familiar Broadway shows that fit the event.
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3 weeks ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (D-27) held a community legislative update discussion via telephone last Thursday evening with residents in Williamson County. The update provided information about bills passed in the 113th General Assembly and challenged in the courts as well as bills recently passed or are working their way through the process in the 114th General Assembly.
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3 weeks ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1140 President Rich Kresja began the Vietnam War Veterans Day celebration on March 29 by introducing Church of the Nazarene Pastor Ronnie Johnson, who provided a blessing for the group. He was followed by the JROTC Color Guard from Independence High School who presented the American and Tennessee flags and Thompson’s Station Methodist Church Pastor Amber Armistead who sang the National Anthem and led the Pledge of Allegiance.
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1 month ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
On March 20, 2000, Julian Bibb III, a longtime resident, community advocate and local attorney along with Mike Alday, Gayle Moyer Harris, Dick Gigi and others filed paperwork to create Franklin Tomorrow, an independent, nonprofit community visioning an engagement organization that also promotes community service.
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1 month ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
Saturday, March 29, is National Vietnam War Veterans Day, a national day of observance for the men and women who served during the 20-year “conflict.” Congress signed the Recognition Act of 2017 into law to commemorate and honor veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces between Nov. 1, 1955, and May 15, 1975, no matter the location. That was a full 34 years after President Nixon proclaimed in 1974 that March 29 would be the first Vietnam War Veterans Day.
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1 month ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
In 2014 Joni Bryan, founder of the 917 Society, was working at a retirement community when a resident asked her when she last read the Constitution. “I realized I hadn’t read it - not the whole thing,” she said. “I only read bits and pieces when I was in the eighth grade.”That random question kept her up that night so the next day she read the full constitution and then researched the document. She was surprised at what she found.
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1 month ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
As large pieces of land continue to be transformed into housing developments, commercial developments and mixed-use areas, Williamson County historian Rick Warwick and Caneta Skelley Hankins, former head of the Tennessee Century Farms Program and assistant director of the Center for Historic Preservation, are on the hunt to find Century Farms around Williamson County for their book, “Century Farms of Williamson County.” Century Farms are farms that have been in the same family for 100 years...
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1 month ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
The creation of the Middle Tennessee Veterans Support Group happened organically 25 years ago when a veteran of World War II and a veteran of the Cold War began meeting every Friday for hot dogs at the Brentwood Costco. Today, Korean, Vietnam and Gulf War veterans and veterans of the many conflicts the U.S. military has been involved still meet at "Camp Costco” every Friday at 11 a.m. for lunch, camaraderie and the occasional celebration.
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1 month ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
The 2009 film “Brothers at War” was a documentary by Jacob Rademacher that told the story of the military lives of his two brothers, Isaac and Joe Rademacher, during their military service in Iraq. According to Jacob, he was on a mission to understand his brothers “experience, sacrifice and motivation” while in the military. To get the full story, Jacob got access to embed with four combat units fighting in Iraq.
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1 month ago | 
williamsonherald.com | Carole Robinson
Five Williamson County Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution held their annual Presidents Day luncheon on Saturday Feb.22 — President George Washington’s official birthday, but not his actual birthday. Yes, there’s a story here. George Washington was born on Feb. 11, 1731. At the time Great Britain and her colonies used the Julian calendar. In 1752 Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar which was one year and 11 days different.
