Abandoned Beauty
Abandoned Beauty

“For Sale” signs and broken windows adorn a large portion of buildings within Jackson’s city limits. Right next to thriving businesses can be found abandoned restaurants or forgotten startups. In the northern part of the city, the lack of uninhabited buildings is less obvious, but take a ride down 45 and it will become more apparent. It is a very sobering sight for those who call Jackson home.

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StoriesHannah HeckartJackson TN, Tennessee, photography, local art, Hannah Heckart, Cynthia Sipes, community, downtown Jackson, Midtown Jackson, buildings, beauty, poverty, unity, art, Women's History Month
Mincemeat & Memories
Mincemeat & Memories

She made the best mincemeat pie,” Cousin Diane recalled, and everyone nodded. The minister for the funeral service had asked what made Janet Bennett unique, and this couldn’t be left off the list. Together with her love of Jeopardy, her skills at sewing clothes for the family, and her impeccable penmanship, the mincemeat pie stood out as an example of Grandma Bennett’s talent, service, and love. Grandma Bennett was a great cook.

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EssaysGuest ContributorJackson TN, Tennessee, Alfred Custer, Katie Howerton, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 2, Janet Bennett, family, cooking, homemade, pie, baking, mincemeat pie, grandparents, tradition, Germany, death, food, funeral, recipe
A Conversation With: Coopertheband
A Conversation With: Coopertheband

Being young with creative aspirations takes hard work and initiative, sometimes particularly so in smaller towns. Yet Jackson is the lucky home to a plethora of up-and-coming talent with big plans for the future. Having lived and worked here for several years now, the members of Coopertheband are no strangers to the trials and rewards of the independent music world. They have recently played several shows back-to-back in the community, extending their central messages of hope and joy through their lyrics.

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InterviewsOlivia ChinJackson TN, Tennessee, Olivia Skelton, Coopertheband, music, local music, local band, band, Cooper Brown, Will Kwasigroh, Joseph Kyle, Matt Hammonds, Patricia Taylor, Phoebe Scott, Belmont University, Nashville TN, hope, joy, Christian, Holy Bible, album, Mark Hornsby, Fort Wayne IN, Indiana, Kickstarter, Jaxon Records, Kyle Schonewill, Sweetwater Studios, house show, A Night of Storytelling 731Day 2017, A Night of Storytelling
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist

Ordinary guys don’t spend too much time thinking about the best escape route out of a restaurant or a home or out of town. And while most people I know aren’t worried about the trackability of their IP addresses or burner phones or whether or not they’ve been recorded on too many security cameras in public, that’s not the case for Lee Wilson. But then again, Lee isn’t exactly having an ordinary moment.

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StoriesJosh GarciaJackson TN, Tennessee, Josh Garcia, Hunted, CBS, TV, television, Lee Wilson, Hilmar Skagfield, Jackson Escape Rooms, reality TV, Union University, local business, entrepreneur, theCO, Jared Dauenhauer, CO.STARTERS, RIFA, Murfreesboro Escape Rooms, Murfreesboro TN, Waco Escape Rooms, Waco TX, tornado, Beth Wilson, competition, City Fellowship Baptist Church, community, church, Food For All, Best of 2017, tourism
Southern Sojourn
Southern Sojourn

In 1998, one of the most respected scholars in the world made a profound decision. It was a decision that seemed at odds with much of what had previously happened in his life.  Jaroslav Pelikan was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1923 to devout Lutheran parents. His father was a Lutheran pastor and his grandfather a bishop in the Lutheran Church.  By the age of twenty-two he had completed both a seminary degree from Concordia Lutheran Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

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StoriesKevin VailesJackson TN, Tennessee, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 4, Josh Garcia, Kevin Vailes, church, religion, Jaroslav Pelikan, Akron OH, Lutheran, priest, Concordia Lutheran Seminary, University of Chicago, Yale University, theology, history, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, scholar, Orthodox, Greek, the South, immigration, culture, Second Great Awakening, Evangelical Protestantism, Christian, tradition, the Middle Ages, Rome, Constantinople, Western Church, America, United States, Muslim, Islam, Fr. Matthew Snowden, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church