10-31-18
Happy Halloween from Nashville.

Did you know that Nashville is known as the Athens of the South?  Today we visited an exact replica of the Parthenon that was built here for the Exposition of 1897.  It was restored in the 20's during which a tornado ripped off the new roof.  Today it houses the art collection of James M.Cowan and a full sized statue of Athena.

There is a set of bronze doors here, each door weighing 7.5 tons. 

After our exposure to ancient culture we went to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum where we were treated to many more modern wonders. 

In Nashville it is permissible to cross a downtown street diagonally.  We did it just to have the experience.

Prominent on the skyline is the AT & T Building with its two distinctive spires.

Art of the day:

Australians call mosquitoes "moskies".  That would be adorable if I didn't have a necklace of bites on me.  I forgot!  We have very few moskies in Portland and I don't miss them.  Time to break out the OFF.  Or maybe I should call the extermination company whose ad we saw on a billboard here which said: