Nashville’s oldest flower shops are neighbors, in fact they are right next door to one another.

(Video by Jacqueline Lee and Sharon Yep)

Sisters in Silence: Unspoken Voices of Nashville Women celebrates the work of women living in the Nashville Community. The work of artists, Melinda Gail Harris, Marcella Renée Stallings, and Holly Chaffin Neuhoff gives voice to those often ignored in a community.

(Video by Ana Cubias, Rickeena Richards and Andrew Villegas)

Virginia’s Market is a well known lunch spot where local musicians flock for the meat and three special.

(Video by Maria Chercoles, Ashlee Clark and Chris Vongsarath)

Originally thought to be extinct, a rare sunflower has been found by a Vanderbilt undergraduate student.

(Video by Matthew Cooper, Astrid Galvan and Sergio Delgado)

Splashing through the morning commute, Nashvillians talk about getting soaked.
(Video by Shawntaye Hopkins, Martha Ramirez and Carlos Silva, Jr.)

Vanderbilt researchers test a robotic leg developed in hopes of helping veterans who lost a limb in the Iraq War to walk again.

(Video by Devin Wagner)

Trail West, near Second Avenue South and Broadway in Nashville, Tenn., has sold Western wear for 28 years. The store—one of three Nashville locations—has been in its current spot since May. It specializes in boots, belts and “anything to go honky-tonking with,” says employee Michael Schoff.
Schoff, during an April 7, 2008, store tour, explains the [...]

Springtime in Nashville is a time of change in weather, fashion and activities, captured in photos and sound.
Vanderbilt University students and workers talk about their personal springtime experiences as they go about their day on campus April 7, 2008.

Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas (1889-1979) evoked the history and future of African Americans in his work. Douglas used oils and gouache, a pigment suspended in water, for his illustrations and large-scale paintings. His subjects ranged from celebratory scenes in Southern jazz clubs to dancing in the hot jungles of the Congo.
The Frist Center for [...]

Overlooking the Vanderbilt University quadrangle, Jonathan Ertelt is in a world of his own as he manages seven of the school’s greenhouses. His passion for plants began when he nurtured a sweet potato vine and, as a college student, got his first orchid to flower. The plants don’t belong to him, but he perseveres through [...]