Recent Crossroads Clips

Columbia Neon on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Columbia Neon

Columbia, TN

April 13, 2017

The old saying goes that it's better to light a candle than curse the darkness so, the folks at Columbia Neon have been lighting candles, electric ones, since the great depression. Tennessee Crossroads shines the light on a special business in Columbia, TN.

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Short Mountain Distillery on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Short Mountain Distillery

Woodbury, TN

March 30, 2017

Tennessee is well known for its distilleries. The Cannon County, TN Short Mountain Distillery that Tennessee Crossroads visited isn't quite a household name yet, but it has plenty to make a day trip worthwhile. Join Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads to find out more.

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Oasis Center Underground Art Studio on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Oasis Center Underground Art Studio

Nashville, TN

March 23, 2017

For more than four decades the Oasis Center here in Nashville has offered safety, support and life changing opportunities to our city’s vulnerable youthTennessee Crossroads learned how one of their programs uses art to help young people cultivate a positive change in themselves and their communities. Watch this and more episode segments of Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads.

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Big Sandy Collector on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Big Sandy Collector

Big Sandy, TN

March 23, 2017

A Big Sandy man has a big collection of all kinds of things that take him back to his younger days. Watch this and more episode segments of Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads.

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Herb Williams-Crayon Artist on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Herb Williams-Crayon Artist

Nashville, TN

March 20, 2017

One of the things you probably had to have when you first started school was a brand new package of crayons. Maybe you remember the vivid colors, the feel, even the smell of those crayons when you opened the box. Herb Williams certainly does and he's reminded of those things every day. Tennessee Crossroads visited this Nashville artist uses crayons in an unusual way to create equally unusual pieces. Watch this and more episode segments of Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads.

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Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument

Nashville, TN

March 16, 2017

The fight for women's right to vote took strength, courage and decades. A new monument commissioned by the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument organization and created by sculptor Alan LeQuire recognizes just how extraordinary five women were who devoted themselves to women's equality. Check out latest documentary from NPT, By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in The South: https://www.wnpt.org/citizenship-project/woman-suffrage/ Watch this and more episode segments of Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads.

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Junior Dragsters Flashback on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Junior Dragsters Flashback

Nashville, TN

March 16, 2017

Tennessee Crossroads' Joe Elmore flashes back to the Music City Raceway in 2001, where youngsters raced in kid-sized dragsters. Watch this and more episode segments of Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads.

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Yazoo Brewing Company on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Yazoo Brewing Company

Madison, TN

March 16, 2017

Until recent years the term micro brewing wasn't even part of the food and drink landscape, but now, store shelves are filled with craft beers from all over the world, including Nashville, TN. One of the pioneers of the local micro-brew movement is Linus Hall who had left a lucrative day job for the life of a brew master, and he's toasted that decision every day since. Join Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads to find out more.

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Wayne-O-Rama on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Wayne-O-Rama

Chattanooga, TN

March 09, 2017

Wayne White is a Tennessee-born artist, illustrator, puppeteer and much more. He's used his Southern memories to create inspired works for network television, film and fine art. Respected around the world, he recently returned home to Chattanooga, TN to create what he calls a history funhouse called Wayne-O-Rama. Watch this and more episode segments of Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads.

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Grand Old Hatchery Flashback on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

Grand Old Hatchery Flashback

Dickson, TN

March 02, 2017

Al Voecks relives a musical memory from 1990 in Dickson, TN.

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8th Avenue Reservoir on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

8th Avenue Reservoir

Nashville, TN

March 02, 2017

Tennessee Crossroads takes us on a tour of Nashville’s 8th Avenue Reservoir and learns that the city’s water supply has to meet more stringent criteria than bottled water producers.

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LC King Manufacturing on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads

LC King Manufacturing

Bristol, TN

February 23, 2017

You don't see many Made-in-America labeled clothes, hanging on store racks nowadays. Most of that business left the country, in the name of free trade. But don't dispair. Tennessee Crossroads will take you to a Made in Tennessee line of garments coming out of a century-old factory in Bristol, TN. Watch this and more episode segments of Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads.

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