Tennessee Off the Beaten Path®

Tennessee Off the Beaten Path®
Author: Jackie Sheckler Finch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1493004395

Tennessee Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Tennessee Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Tennessee that other guidebooks just don't offer.

Tennessee Off the Beaten Path®, 9th

Tennessee Off the Beaten Path®, 9th
Author: Jackie Sheckler Finch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0762756047

Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, let Tennessee Off the Beaten Path show you the Volunteer State you never knew existed. Enjoy a slice of vinegar pie at the summit of Clinch Mountain; check out the 110-foot-high waterfall in the Ozone Falls Natural Area; or pass the hat—a genuine Stetson—while listening to top-shelf Southern gospel music at the famous Nashville Cowboy Church. Elvis Presley’s Mercedes-Benz is just one of the thirty cars on display at the Smoky Mountain Car Museum in Pigeon Forge. Al Capone’s bullet-proof Cadillac is also here, as is one of James Bond’s 007 cars. So if you’ve “been there, done that” one too many times, get off the main road and venture Off the Beaten Path.

Ohio Off the Beaten Path®

Ohio Off the Beaten Path®
Author: Jackie Sheckler Finch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1493007041

Ohio Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Ohio Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Ohio that other guidebooks just don't offer.

Mississippi Off the Beaten Path®

Mississippi Off the Beaten Path®
Author: Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1493017861

Mississippi Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Mississippi Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Mississippi that other guidebooks just don't offer.

Tennessee Off the Beaten Path®, 10th

Tennessee Off the Beaten Path®, 10th
Author: Jackie Sheckler Finch
Publisher: GPP Travel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780762792085

Tennessee Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Tennessee Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Tennessee that other guidebooks just don't offer.

Kentucky Off the Beaten Path®

Kentucky Off the Beaten Path®
Author: Zoe Strecker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0762757906

Go beyond the usual tourist attractions to discover hidden treasures in the Bluegrass State.

The Art of Tennessee Loveless

The Art of Tennessee Loveless
Author: David A. Bossert
Publisher: Disney Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781484746899

This stunning, colorful, and vastly diverse art collection showcases 100 paintings of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse by contemporary pop artist Tennessee Loveless. Explore Tennessee's fascinating methodology: a story about the power of art, overcoming obstacles, and following your dreams. When he was growing up in the southern United States, Tennessee Loveless didn't know that he was so different from other children in his grade school class. Then one day, he and his classmates were asked to choose a purple object in the room. Everyone else seemed to find this an easy task, while Tennessee slumped down, paralyzed with fear. He couldn't do it. His teacher picked him up, at which point he started crying. Tennessee's parents were called; tests were done; and Tennessee was diagnosed with limited achromatopsia, which is the state of being almost completely color-blind. Tennessee's inability to distinguish most hues has, if anything, made him obsessed with the formation of patterns, objects, and shapes. Early on, he became attracted to the destruction of white space and captivated with the idea of filling in anything lacking in form with a pattern. Later, he learned in color-theory books what hues complemented or contrasted each other appropriately and went on to develop his own numerically based color indexing system. In creating his Mickey Mouse art collection, Tennessee uses bold colors and patterns to evoke an immediate visual impact. He is driven by his passion for painting people, iconic images, and his own visual iconography in a way that strikes an emotional and nostalgic connection through command over the one thing he is blind to: color.

Looking Beyond the Highway

Looking Beyond the Highway
Author: Claudette Stager
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781572334670

Looking beyond the Highway is an examination of road history and roadside attractions specific to the South. Focused in part on numerous aspects of thematerial culture landscape of the Dixie Highway, the essays consider the politics of roadbuilding, roadside entertainment, the buildings and businesses one might encounter along the road, and regional adaptations to the needs and desires of northern tourists. Following the Dixie Highway from southern Illinois to Florida with sidetrips down other southern roads, the essays cover a wide variety of subjects, many of which will resonate with anyone who has ever lived in or vacationed in the South: Harrison Mayes's “Get Right With God” signs; the park-and-pray craze of outdoor drive-in church services; the rise and demise of brick highways; the fierce political battle over the route of the Dixie Highway; beach music and the evolution of motel architecture in Myrtle Beach; Florida's early tourist towers; and the commercial development of Tennessee caves as tourist attractions. Covering a landscape that includes Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, and Illinois, the anthology shows that there was and still is a distinctive southern culture and how roads have influenced that culture. As lively as they are diverse, thearticles provide a solid background for understanding roadside ephemera that have disappeared or are quickly disappearing. Ranging from the serious to the light-hearted and including descriptions of American road and roadside icons to kitsch, the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in road history and roadside architecture.

Receding Tide

Receding Tide
Author: Edwin C. Bearss
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2010-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1426205600

It’s a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South’s effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege, Ulysses Grant’s Union army finally took Vicksburg and the Confederate west. On the very same day, Robert E. Lee was in Pennsylvania, parrying the threat to Vicksburg with a daring push north to Gettysburg. For two days the battle had raged; on the next, July 4, 1863, Pickett’s Charge was thrown back, a magnificently brave but fruitless assault, and the fate of the Confederacy was sealed, though nearly two more years of bitter fighting remained until the war came to an end. In Receding Tide, Edwin Cole Bearss draws from his popular Civil War battlefield tours to chronicle these two widely separated but simultaneous clashes and their dramatic conclusion. As the recognized expert on both Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Bearss tells the fascinating story of this single momentous day in our country’s history, offering his readers narratives, maps, illustrations, characteristic wit, dramatic new insights and unerringly intimate knowledge of terrain, tactics, and the colorful personalities of America’s citizen soldiers, Northern and Southern alike.

Fodor's USA, 28th Edition

Fodor's USA, 28th Edition
Author: Inc. (NA) Fodor's Travel Publications
Publisher: Fodor's
Total Pages: 1106
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1400010888

Provides travel and tourist information, including maps, ratings, and prices, for all states, major cities, and historic and vacation sites throughout the United States