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Curious Nashville

In Curious Nashville from Nashville Public radio, we answer your questions about the city and region. Listeners decide which question we should investigate and answer next.

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How We Got Left With A Nice Station And No Passenger Train

How We Got Left With A Nice Station And No Passenger Train

The Curious Nashville inbox has received several variations on the same question: What happened to passenger rail servic... Read more

18 Aug 2016

15mins

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The Year Jimi Hendrix Jammed On Jefferson Street And How It Still Reverberates

The Year Jimi Hendrix Jammed On Jefferson Street And How It Still Reverberates

Before he was an international superstar, Jimi Hendrix spent a year on Nashville’s Jefferson Street. It’s a chapter in H... Read more

15 Dec 2016

20mins

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‘Water Witching’ And The Search For Unmarked Graves

‘Water Witching’ And The Search For Unmarked Graves

This episode wanders into supernatural territory in the search for unmarked graves. It began innocently enough: A listen... Read more

28 Oct 2016

13mins

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The Life And Death Of An Old House In Boomtown

The Life And Death Of An Old House In Boomtown

We tackle a question that’s elemental to Nashville these days: What happens to the waste when old houses get demolished?... Read more

13 Apr 2017

18mins

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What Happens When The Wrong Stuff Gets In The Recycling Bin?

What Happens When The Wrong Stuff Gets In The Recycling Bin?

For most people, recycling means placing an empty soda can or some scrap paper in a blue bin. They might take that bin t... Read more

31 Aug 2017

15mins

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The True Stories Behind Nashville’s Claims To Fame (Live Taping)

The True Stories Behind Nashville’s Claims To Fame (Live Taping)

There are some assumptions that people have about Nashville that aren’t quite right — and plenty of quirks that baffle a... Read more

23 Sep 2019

27mins

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Remembering America’s Deadliest Train Crash

Remembering America’s Deadliest Train Crash

Even many Nashville natives don’t know about the head-on train crash at Dutchman’s Curve on July 9, 1918. It killed 101 ... Read more

10 Jul 2017

12mins

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The Construction Pit That Became Known As A Lake — And What’s Happening Now

The Construction Pit That Became Known As A Lake — And What’s Happening Now

A massive Nashville development includes a construction pit that is eight stories deep. It looks like a quarry, with she... Read more

24 Jun 2019

10mins

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Why Is It So Hard To Alter Confederate Monuments in Tennessee?

Why Is It So Hard To Alter Confederate Monuments in Tennessee?

Confederate monuments have triggered debates, protests, and even the murder of a demonstrator in Virginia. The unrest in... Read more

11 Nov 2019

24mins

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Inside The Governor’s Defunct Nuclear Bomb Shelter

Inside The Governor’s Defunct Nuclear Bomb Shelter

Out in the thick woods of West Nashville there’s an epic remnant of Cold War history. But it is largely unknown. The for... Read more

19 Aug 2019

21mins

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