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Sep 21, 2024 | 
timesfreepress.com | Jane Marcellus
"THE END OF TENNESSEE: A MEMOIR" by Rachel M. Hanson (University of South Carolina Press, 208 pages, $23). There's a scene in Rachel M. Hanson's "The End of Tennessee: A Memoir" where Rachel, age 15, is standing in the hallway of an East Tennessee theater where she is performing in "La Sylphide," a romantic ballet that premiered in Paris in the 19th century.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
chapter16.org | Maria Browning |Jane Marcellus
There’s a scene in Rachel M. Hanson’s The End of Tennessee: A Memoir where Rachel, aged 15, is standing in the hallway of an East Tennessee theater where she is performing in La Sylphide, a romantic ballet that premiered in Paris in the 19th century.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jane Marcellus
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Jane Marcellus
When I was in my late 20s, I became obsessed with old age. The slow decline, the sagging skin, the faltering memory, the eventual demise—it all terrified me. To batten down the hatches against impending doom, I read up on nursing homes and assisted living and in-home care, arming myself with information about what—the knees or the memory—might go first. My fear wasn't about myself, but my mother. She was on the brink of 70, and I didn't know how to handle that. My mother herself was fine.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
nashvillescene.com | Jane Marcellus
Near the beginning of Ann Powers’ Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, the NPR music critic writes about standing in her front yard to look at gathering storm clouds when a New York editor called to ask if she’d like to write about the singer-songwriter best known for 1960s folk hits such as “Both Sides Now” and “Big Yellow Taxi.” Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell By Ann Powers Dey Street Books 448 pages, $35 Powers will discuss her book at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at Parnassus...
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
chapter16.org | Jane Marcellus
Near the beginning of Ann Powers’ Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, the NPR music critic tells about standing in her front yard to look at gathering storm clouds when a New York editor called to ask if she’d like to write about the singer-songwriter best known for 1960s folk hits such as “Both Sides Now” and “Big Yellow Taxi.”Powers told the editor she needed a minute.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
chapter16.org | Jane Marcellus
Soon after Danielle Chapman’s father was killed in a scuba diving accident while serving in the military in Okinawa, her paternal grandfather brought her and her mother to his ancestral home in Fairfield, Tennessee, where she spent much of her childhood and teen years. Living in a former tavern and antebellum farmhouse built in 1790, where she was steeped in the worldview very different from her own, she learned to love the South while questioning many of its values.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
nashvillescene.com | Jane Marcellus
A few chapters into A Most Tolerant Little Town, Rachel Louise Martin tells what happened on a Sunday morning in the fall of 1956, a few days after 12 Black students attempted to desegregate Clinton High School in East Tennessee.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
chapter16.org | Jane Marcellus
Opposite the title page in Drew Gilpin Faust’s Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury is an image of a letter the future historian and president of Harvard University wrote to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “I am nine years old and I am white and I have many feelings about segregation,” she printed in pencil on lined notebook paper.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
chapter16.org | Jane Marcellus
Growing up I had a cousin named Dimple who lived in Oak Ridge. She was 46 years older than me, the oldest cousin on that side of the family, while I was by far the youngest. Unlike her sister, who pinned her dark hair up in a tight French roll and seemed unapproachably austere, Dimple let her red curls blow about wantonly. The first time I met her, when I was 5, she pressed her forehead to mine and said we were “kissin’ cousins.” I always liked her.
