A History of Nashville's Warner Parks

A History of Nashvilles Warner Parks is a story of Percy Warner Parks and Edwin Warner Parks 3200-plus acres from 500000000 years ago to the present. The transformation of the land is not however one simple story with a happy ending but a tapestry of many stories of conflict and cooperation over millennia culminating in an irreplaceable community asset. The all-encompassing volume addresses the geologic topographical natural social cultural military business governmental environmental and philanthropic histories of the area.Sixteen authors tell the stories in 53 short engaging chapters (copiously illustrated with approximately 175 maps photographs illustrations artifacts and reproductions of nationally known artists oils watercolors and drawings) wherein readers can learn chronologically how the beloved parks (listed in the National Register of Historic Places) were roughly over the past century acquired forged enjoyed neglected and resurrected ultimately to be cherished expanded and protected. Current maps a wide-ranging timeline and a species list with over 1100 species are key elements in the appendix.Edited and written in part by Nashville author F. Lynne Bachleda. Design by Gary Gore and page layouts & production by Bruce Gore of Gore Studio Inc.