After a recent visit to the exhibit at the Tennessee State Museum that highlighted the Nashville sit-in movement I was struck buy the lessons to be learned about Nashville youth.
The leaders of the movement in Nashville were young. The students understood that to take action was the only option. As I look at the flood relief movement in Nashville 50 years later I see the same type of encouraging youthful leadership.
Have you noticed it? T
en-fifteen years ago if you asked a random Nashvillian where they were from they’d say; California, Michigan, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, New York .. all sorts of places. Very few would say they grew up here. It’s changed. The often written about, Generation Y in Nashville, TN is so much more often now actually FROM Nashville, TN.
Some may say it’s simply a generational transition, this since of community, this pride in home and the basic effort to love your neighbor.
I think it may be in the water.
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