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1 week ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY – The Texas Hill Country is a region of south and central Texas with ill-defined borders, craggy limestone hills, clear streams, cedar scrub, starry skies and plenty of mesquite. It’s also a place of small towns, many with ethnic immigrant roots (German, Czech, Polish and others).
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2 weeks ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
DICKSON, Tenn. – Kirby and Kelsy Davis are young Tennessee farmers who offer a twist to the u-pick agritourism concept. Although they do have a small stand of blueberry bushes for the u-pick crowd, they concentrate on flowers. You will find snapdragons, ranunculus, anemones, narcissus, peonies and many other beauties of nature at Blooming Acres, their appropriately named farm about 45 miles west of Nashville.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Tom Adkinson |Main Street Nashville
The Tennessee River Museum occupies most of the main level of Savannah’s 1939 post office on Main Street. TOM ADKINSONSAVANNAH – Just as you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, you shouldn’t judge a museum by the size of the surrounding town. The Tennessee River Museum in tiny Savannah, population 7,213, proves that point. The museum, housed in a former post office built in 1939 and on the National Register of Historic Places, is a community project.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Tom Adkinson |Main Street Nashville
Frist Art Museum CEO Seth Feman stands before a portrait of doge Leonardo Loredan, Venice’s leader in the early 1500s. They ruled through wars with several enemies. TOM ADKINSON Venice and ancient Constantinople (today’s Istanbul) are closer than you might think. That’s because of “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” a summer-long exhibition at the Frist Art Museum.
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3 weeks ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
SAN ANTONIO – One of San Antonio’s newest attractions is a key to understanding five of the city’s oldest attractions. It is the World Heritage Center, which celebrates the collective designation of San Antonio’s five historic missions as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Anyone with just a smattering of American history knowledge knows the name of one of the five missions, the Alamo. Together, they are the most intact group of Spanish colonial mission complexes in the world.
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4 weeks ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
SAN ANTONIO – Breakfasts in the fancy hotels along San Antonio’s famous Riverwalk are a treat, but barely two blocks off the river is a downtown spot that locals love and lucky visitors find – La Panadería – at the corner of E. Houston and Navarro streets. La Panadería is a friendly, unassuming breakfast/brunch/lunch bakery and cafe abundantly stocked every morning with treasures from the oven that tempt you to order to excess. If you do order too much, that’s why carryout boxes exist.
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1 month ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
KERRVILLE, Texas – For a small town, Kerrville goes for western art in a big way. Despite having a population of only 25,000, Kerrville’s Museum of Western Art has become a destination for people who appreciate the diverse art of the American West. In fact, it was fans of this genre who brought the museum into being.
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1 month ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Tom Adkinson |Main Street Nashville
Boaters can dock within a few yards of the 119-room Lodge at Pickwick Landing State Park in southwest Tennessee. TOM ADKINSONCOUNCE – Lake-loving Middle Tennesseans seem to look east more than west for their aquatic destinations, but they are missing a solid bet in Pickwick Lake and a gem of the Tennessee state parks system, Pickwick Landing State Park.
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1 month ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Tom Adkinson |Main Street Nashville
TOM ADKINSON Main Street Nashville Flags were placed by Middle Tennessee Scouts to decorate graves at the Stones River National Cemetery in Murfreesboro. PHOTO BY MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL OF SCOUTING AMERICAWhen you see small American flags adorning service members’ graves this Memorial Day, young participants in the Scouting America program are likely responsible.
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1 month ago | 
knoxvilledailysun.com | Tom Adkinson
Georgia is big, diverse and dynamic, and travelers this year can find “newish” attractions that are coming into their own and destinations with deep histories that are sporting banners that say “New and Improved.” Here is a sampling scattered around the Peach State. What can a city do with a hulking, out-of-date power plant in a conspicuous location?
