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Nashville's Big Back Yard non-profit economic initiative

KCBX | By Tom Wilmer
Published March 31, 2021 at 4:08 PM PDT

Nashville's Big Back Yard, an economic and tourism initiative focused on a natural watershed region wending through the Natchez Trace National Parkway, features 12 rural communities. Leiper's Fork is the northern anchor, not far from Nashville. The Big Back Yard journey traverses Tennessee's southwest Quarter down to Alabama's legendary Shoals region--the mother ship of American Music.

Join the journey via 12 shows from the 15 part Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer audio series (click on hyperlinks listen to each show:

Exploring Nashville's Big Back Yard

Alabama's Shoals Region Explored

Muscle Shoals Studio and Alabama Music Hall of Fame

Town of Loretto Rocks

Puckett's Grocery Store Rocks

Hohenwald's Elephant Sanctuary

Architectural Restoration revives downtown Linden, TN

Frank Lloyd Wright's Alabama Legacy

Amber Falls Winery

Leiper's Fork Distillery

Hohenwald's legendary "Farm"

The Art of Leiper's Fork
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Travel NashvilleNashville's Big Back YardShoals RegionHohenwald TennesseePuckett's Grocery & Restaurant
Tom Wilmer
Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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