fisk university

To date, I have photographed 210 Tennessee historical markers. Here's the complete catalog to date.

Aaron Venable Brown
Abner Houston

Congrats to our northwest Nashville neighbor, Fisk University, which has met its $4 million goal before the end of June deadline, qualifying it for $2 million from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Thanks to Enclave readers for clicking on the ads posted on this blog. Sometime in the next few weeks I should be receiving a check for your patronage.

Ken Whitehouse took a quick scan of the names on the Belmont Presidential Debate Host Committee and notes a few conspiciously missing names:

I received this very nice note today from a Fisk University officer thanking me for our contribution of $190 to Fisk's challenge grant fundraising effort.

SNNA President Freddie O'Connell announced that he would be attending Council Member Erica Gilmore's "Fisk Day in District 19" fundraiser today with a good-sized donation (for a small neighborhood association in a modest neighborhood) in tow.

Metro Council Member Erica Gilmore has declared March 19 "Fisk Day," and she is encouraging everyone in District 19 to make a donation of some variation of "19" ($.19, $19, $190, $1,900, etc.) to Fisk University's Mellon Foundation Challenge Grant in order to raise matching funds for the struggling northwest Nashville institution. I have decided to contribute all of the proceeds from Enclave's ad sales since my la

Rehab Schmehab. Amy Winehouse wasn't the only big winner at yesterday's Grammy Awards. As reported in the Los Angeles Times, the Nashville Symphony's recording Joan Tower: Made in America took home three awards: Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance and Best Classical Contemporary Composition (for composer Tower's 13-minute piece "Made in America," an orchestral fantasy b

Last week, the folks developing Nashville's Museum of African American Music, Art and Culture proposed a partnership between the museum—slated to open in 2011—and Fisk University to showcase the school's coveted Stieglitz Collection. In return, Fisk would get “a steady stream of revenue” to help the school recover from financial purgatory. Seemed like a good enough idea.