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  • Nov 08 Saturday

    Book Release Celebration of Howdy! The Minnie Pearl Story

    Blount Mansion
    03:00 PM - 05:00 PM on Sat, 8 Nov 2025

    How-DEE!! Join us on Saturday, November 8th at 3pm at the Blount Mansion Visitors Center for the Book Release Celebration of Howdy! The Minnie Pearl Story with authors Mary Ellen Pethel and Don Cusic.

    Purchase the book here: https://utpress.org/title/howdy/

    Mary Ellen Pethel is an associate professor and academic leader at Belmont University where she directs interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Global Honors Program. Pethel also leads Nashville Sites as executive director and serves as archivist at Harpeth Hall School.

    Don Cusic is the Curb Professor of Music Industry History at Belmont University, where he teaches in the music business program and serves as a leading scholar of American popular music. He worked on the Ken Burns documentary Country Music and serves as editor of the International Journal of Country Music.

    This event is a collaboration with UT Press.

    • The special speaking event will be at Blount Mansion Visitors Center, 200 West Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902.
    • Limited free parking onsite
    • $10 Donation suggested at the door. Cash and card accepted
    • RSVP to Rose@BlountMansion.org

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  • Nov 13 Thursday

    Book Signing with Kem Hinton, Author of NETHER LAND on Thursday, November 13th

    Blount Mansion
    Suggested $10 Donation
    06:00 PM - 07:00 PM on Thu, 13 Nov 2025

    Join Us on Thursday, November 13th at the Blount Mansion Visitors Center for the Book Signing of NETHER LAND by Kem Hinton!

    When Kem Hinton learns of the murder of his former classmate in high school and at the University of Tennessee, Ed Netherland, he’s stunned to unravel this individual’s wild career after serving as a football trainer for the Vols (1972-1976), Smart, inventive, and super ambitious, Ed soared to great wealth in toxic waste disposal schemes and enormous life insurance investments. Yet in 2014, he was killed in the USVI. This nonfiction saga documents Ed’s roller coaster lifestyle and attempts to answer questions that still exist about a crime in paradise that remains unsolved…

    By Kem Hinton, FAIA, B. Arch, 1977 (Torchbearer Award)

    The special speaking event will be at Blount Mansion Visitors Center, 200 West Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902.

    Limited free parking onsite

    $10 Donation suggested at the door, Cash and Card accepted

    RSVP to Rose@BlountMansion.org

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