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About Nashville
"Music City USA" is the perfect setting for the Section's Spring
Meeting. In addition to an outstanding educational experience,
enjoy networking opportunities, distinguished speakers, exciting
social events, and top-notch activities! Filled with diverse and
interesting attractions, Nashville's cultural and entertainment
venues will delight you.
Sightseeing Tours
Nash Trash Tour
Thursday, March 31, 2005
2:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.
ABA guests, meet The Juggs. Not to be confused with The Judds,
Sheri Lynn and Brenda Kay are two sisters with foot-high hair,
inch-thick makeup and a serious fixation on the color pink. For 90
minutes, get a wacky immersion in hardcore fandom and celebrity
detritus and potentially a celebrity sighting you can share with the
folks back home. Once the bus door closes, everybody outside is
famous, and everybody inside is a rubbernecker. Whether it's real
hardly matters. Learn about the former cathouse smack in the middle
of downtown, and where on Music Row Elvis swam naked. The
Juggs talk about Garth, George, Billy Ray, and LeAnn as if they were
squirrelly relatives, or characters in a long-running soap. Step on
board and watch your hair...
Note: This is a grown-up type tour with a few bawdy jokes and
adult innuendos...may not be suitable for the youngsters!
BELLE MEADE PLANTATION AND CHEEKWOOD
Botanical Gardens Tour
Friday, April 1, 2005
9:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
A full one hundred year span of Tennessee history and architecture can
be found at Belle Meade Plantation. Today, 30-acres remain of the
once 5,400-acre plantation, making this one of the South's most
outstanding showplaces. On the National Register of Historic Places,
Belle Meade Mansion has been beautifully restored to reflect the
sumptuous elegance of the 19th century. We will visit the mansion's
colossal carriage house, which is filled with restored antique carriages,
and see the stables, which once housed some of horse racing's finest
lineage. After touring, we will enjoy lunch at Martha's at the Plantation.
Then it's off to visit Cheekwood, the estate of Leslie Cheek and the
home of the family who brought Maxwell House Coffee to our tables.
This wonderful tour includes a walk through the mansion and the
gardens with a special host, and will be followed by tea at one of
Nashville's finest homes.
The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, Tour
Saturday, April 2, 2005
9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
Andrew Jackson wrote to a friend in 1821, "Mrs. Jackson chose this
spot and she shall have her wish. I am going to build this house for
her." Set on more than 600 acres of rolling Middle Tennessee
countryside, The Hermitage offers a commemorative tribute to one of
America's most admired Presidents and great military heroes. Many
original furnishings, countless personal items, beautiful landscaping,
and gardens are kept much as they were when the Jackson family
lived there. When Jackson returned to The Hermitage after his
Washington years, he visited Rachel's grave every evening before
retiring to bed and awoke to her portrait above the fireplace every
morning. Guests will visit the Mansion itself, Rachel's Garden, and the
graves of Andrew and Rachel.
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