Y’all. What the fuck is this?! Copilot can just do this, which, clearly, is nothing?!? I am dying of delight.
Betsy Phillips
@betsyphillips.bsky.social
A loud-mouth on the internet.
My love of this parking garage is almost making the cubicle worth it.
I pitched a story about the Higginses to @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social and forgot I sometimes suck at writing.
Everybody. Rebecca Higgins has a headstone. AND Bryan at the city cemetery has an old map of everyone buried in her plot and it’s everyone! It’s all the family!
Y'all, this Sidney Hirsch manuscript. I feel so cheated that, in all the time I've been here, we never had a thousand-person epic theater performance in the lawn at the Parthenon that one in ten Nashvillians attended.
Why @betsyphillips.bsky.social rocks read @learothawms.bsky.social “I’ll Take You There” a must read @nashvillescene.com
We Should Have a Nashville History Month
From visiting the Nashville Public Library to taking a Nashville Sites tour and going fossil hunting, here are 10 ways to celebrate our history
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Columnist @betsyphillips.bsky.social thinks we should have a Nashville History Month. From visiting the Nashville Public Library to taking a Nashville Sites tour, here are 10 ways to celebrate our history.
We Should Have a Nashville History Month
From visiting the Nashville Public Library to taking a Nashville Sites tour and going fossil hunting, here are 10 ways to celebrate our history
nashvillescene.com
Happy Nashville History Month! The only month where you’re duty-bound to have a kid with a French-Canadian. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
We Should Have a Nashville History Month
From visiting the Nashville Public Library to taking a Nashville Sites tour and going fossil hunting, here are 10 ways to celebrate our history
nashvillescene.com
This week’s cover story from reporter Hannah Herner: How Nashville’s historic sites are reckoning with their history of slavery. https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/nashville-historic-sites-slavery-history/article_4ad51ac1-5701-4790-8b68-a5fc2c1fd898.html
Y'all, here is why you have to look at things a bunch of different times. I started out looking at the Higgins sisters by finding them in the 1860 census. Then I spent all week digging into their family and found their sister married to a Bledsoe. Then I come back to the 1860 census and I find a
we’re gonna get a publishing wave here that’s going to sink lower than you can possibly imagine because somewhere someone is typing “so Enkidu smashed Shamhat” into a doc titled Gilgamesh: A Gen Z Translation
She can stay up all night doing rails with Bruno Mars and then write a review of the Odyssey that pisses off the Internet all while somehow getting a million people to buy a book she didn’t even write That’s ain’t you buddy you try to keep EW’s pace you’ll end up in a burrito restaurant’s mural
Worried that Emily Wilson is establishing a rockstar standard for translators that will kill future generations of classicists like Keith Richards’ tolerance killed a generation of succeeding rock stars
I have matured. While I still refuse to vote for Hall for Sheriff, I didn’t make any snarky write-in vote.
In spite of everything, some days you get to read a manuscript about Sidney Hirsch.
I described Pap Singleton's escape from Nashville as him having "performed a surprise emancipation of himself." I was pretty funny when I wrote that a year ago.
Bart has stated something to me so clearly that I kind of don’t know how to go on with my day.
Y'all. The Higgins family just gets more interesting to me. So, we have the two sisters who are wealthy as fuck sex workers. We have the two brothers who clearly benefitted from the money while the sisters were alive but then pretended not to know them later.
There are two sisters who each ran “houses of ill-fame” in Nashville in the 1800s—Rebecca and Eliza Higgins. And I mean for almost forty years they did this. I think that Eliza ran a franchise of her older sister’s business.
Nashville, if you go right now, the moon is huge and low and this beautiful pink-orange color that will startle you a little.
I don’t think Bill would join me in joining in a fight.
I love reading about old-timey fights, because they're always like "John Smith and Edward Bell joined in a fight in the street over a parcel. A lewd woman leaned out the window and she and her terrier joined in the fray."
The great @betsyphillips.bsky.social decided to give me a quiz to see how liberal I am. I think she’s actually pissed at the results. 🤷🏼♂️ 🍖 by Shotgun Willie’s 📰 by @nashvillescene.com 🪴 by God 🍎: tinyurl.com/yc24u89f
Every time I try to use AI for a task I could hand my eight year old nephew if he were allowed to work under Tennessee law, it makes me want to bang my head against my desk. Why doesn't it just fucking work?
I know everyone’s afraid to hire Black women bc it might make a white man upset but I need some work. I have 5-figure medical debt, a cat that needs a vet appt 😿, a medically complex household, the usual bills that come with adulthood, and I’d love to get good skincare again 😩 HIRE ME.
Well, my dad is pissed at cops and churches and ranting about how groups that don’t pay taxes shouldn’t get to use police as traffic control on Sundays. My dad is a minister.
Columnist @betsyphillips.bsky.social digs into the archives for details about Joelton's once-widespread American chestnut trees, which were all but wiped out by blight.
The Mystery of Joelton's Elusive American Chestnut Trees
Digging into the archives for details about the once-widespread trees, which were all but wiped out by blight
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Some people doubt I can write a whole column without cussing or dressing someone down. Those people don’t understand how much joy the legend of the Joelton chestnut brings me. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
The Mystery of Joelton's Elusive American Chestnut Trees
Digging into the archives for details about the once-widespread trees, which were all but wiped out by blight
nashvillescene.com