Nashville State Capitol, Group Pic, The Elf

Morning, I am hoping 

that you all had a great

and Merry Christmas.

It was great being with the family

and watching the greats on 

Christmas day...

however, did I have the energy

to find that Christmas spirit?

No...

I kept a smile on my face and 

pushed on.

But, actually glad it is over.

Now to move on...

1940

Our state capital. Wow, 

seeing it like this is strange and 

knowing that just 38 yrs. later, 

it was thriving and I was working just 

across the street from this

capital.

None of those wooden ransacked buildings

were left and there were high rise buildings

all around.

 

Most folks are not aware, esp

if you never visit Nashville  or taken

a tour through the capitol, but in the 

cold stone walls of our State Capitol 

are the remains of two men. 

When the powers that be, whomever

they were wanted to build the 

state capitol Nashville,

they knew that they wanted a 

big name architect to build it. 

That is when they hired a man 

by the name of William Strickland.

Apparently the building of our

Capitol was his crowing 

achievement. 

Strickland whom died five years

before the Capitol was finished, 

was entombed in the northeast wall.

Also, Samuel Dold Morgan, 

chairman of the State Building Commission, 

was entombed in the southeast side of the 

Capitol. 

Both interior and exterior was built

of limestone. Greek revival style and 

contains three floors. 

Some inside pics.

I have always thought it as 

an impressive building.

I used to work in the TN Towers, 

which is catty corner across the street

from the Capitol. But what is cool, is 

that when delivering pictures to the offices

of Reps. and Sentors, if the weather was bad,

I would dart across the street,

enter a set of doors and 

proceed to the capitol via the 

tunnel. 

Yep, like most capitols, there 

is a tunnel leading to it under

ground. But, that is nothing, to 

my understanding, told to me 

by telephone repair guys, the streets

of Nashville has an aray of tunnels

all under the streets of Nashville.

Here is what I found when looking

up tunnels under Nashville on 

the internet. 

The numerous tunnels under the 

streets of my fair city rage from

historic (Prohibition, Civil War-era)

and functional (sewer, district energy)

to recently discovered ones and planned

future transit loops like Elon 

Musk's proposed 

Music City Loop, connecting

old stories of escape routes and 

secret passage

o recently discovered ones and planned 

future transit loops

 like Elon Musk's proposed Music City 

Loop, connecting 

old stories of escape routes and secret passages 

with modern infrastructure and new tech. 

Interesting what is being built

under your feet on the streets 

of Nashville..

I know, sloppy looking bunch in 

this pic.

Amber wanted a Christmas pic,

and although everyone knows that we

do this, they don't even dress for the 

event. LOL.

When I loaded up the pic I thought,

crap, I don't usually get off that bad with 

having to level out the pic...then I realized

it was just that one end of folks. No

clue what the lean was all about!!

Several pics taken and this would have

to be the best. I have shot many pics of

big groups and NEVER have I had

several that would not even listen.

Left to right ~ Caleb (first born grandchild) 

and his GF. The three children in the 

front after Caleb and Triniti, is Alistur, 

Evie and Felicity. The three adults behind 

Alistur is Hannah (Evies mom), the silly

adult child learning over into Hannah is 

Chandler aka Chan Man. Next to him is 

Evie's dad and Chan Mans brother, 

Big Brayden.

In the green shirt net to Hannah, 

is Will, son in law, next to him is 

my daughter Amber. Amber is holding 

Kyler. He younger man next to Amber

and behind the Elf is Namath. Guy holding 

the baby is Jesse, baby is Beckham and 

behind them is Little Braden. The big 

football player looking dude is DJ.

I think you all know who the elf is.

I did not tell anyone about 

the elf outfit, although I have been

planning this day for almost a yr. 

I just walked in wearing it.

No one commented, just like I 

was wearing a pair of jeans and 

and a shirt. When I mentioned that 

Amber just said, nothing you do 

surprises us. 

When later on talking with 

Cory on the phone he replied, 

"mom, we know you". 

Is it a good thing that they 

were not surprised or is that bad?

Pam