Regular Bacon contributor Laura Cooper recently returned from a family trip to Italy, where her army of three sons and a husband were equal parts barbarians at the gate and consumers of gelato. Today, she thinks about the American abroad, historically speaking. For Laura’s bio and…
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Don’t expect to see Ashley Levi’s cheerful, smiling face in Nashville too much this summer. She and the kids will be in Charlevoix, Michigan! It’s possibly her favorite spot in the world – a “simple little town in northern Michigan with…
I met Roger Moore this past Spring at the Ballet Ball; seated next to him at dinner, I couldn’t have asked for a finer evening! Roger is an absolutely enchanting conversationalist. That night, I learned that he is a professor…
No one needs to tell my dear friend Betsy Wills to lean in! She has managed a family and high-test career with energy and enthusiasm to spare. She is hard-working, fun-loving, and terrifically smart. Most recently, she co-founded YouScience, an…
“Brad Paisley, you can almost Start Me Up, but we are here for the Rolling Stones!” – Kobie Pretorius, Facebook, from LP Field, 6/17/2015. From George Cassidy, author and rocker (reposted from December 2014): A Prince Among Stones by Prince Rupert…
Elizabeth Colton Walls has a quick wit, a ready smile, and encyclopedic knowledge of both Nashville and New York City. She grew up here – part of the illustrious Colton clan – but lived in the City for 20 years before…
Josh Herring and wife Lauren hail from East Tennessee but stayed in Nashville after he graduated from the Owen School. Thank you again, Vanderbilt, for all that you do! When he’s not busy working at Merrill Lynch in the Private…
Dallas and her husband Fleming joke that they were the last single people left standing in Nashville and found each other by default. This was a few years ago, of course, before the current youth invasion. First date to wedding…
I first met author Alice Randall when she visited book club at my friend Lawrence Blank-Cook’s home years ago, when Lawrence and her family lived on Central. Our book club was discussing The Wind Done Gone, and Alice agreed to come and…