Posts tagged park
Day Trip: Discovery Park of America
Day Trip: Discovery Park of America

An expansive flock of slate grey clouds span the sky as I drive along the narrow highway. The landscape rolls beside me, before me. The hills and subtle ridge lines guide the highway that bears my passage. Rural fields are dotted with gigantic cotton gins, dilapidated barns. Small colonies of trailers and rented houses populate gravel side roads, sprouting like branches from the main highway. I am northward bound, driving into an increasingly brisk wind.

Read More
EssaysGuest ContributorJackson TN, Tennessee, Sam Tilleros, Kristi Woody, Discovery Park of America, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1, West Tennessee, tourism, Union City TN, Robert Kirkland, Kirkland's, Jenny Kirkland, park, dinosaurs, history, Davy Crockett, Reelfoot Lake, aquarium, Thomas Tilleros, education, family, kids, children, fun, Obion County, Gibson County, Obion River, Tourism Guide 2020
Southern Safari
Southern Safari

After you crank your car down from the sixty-five miles-per-hour speed limit, you’ll make a turn onto a shaded, gravel road, and if you are lucky you’ll catch your first glimpse of the exotic: radiant peacocks, enormous camels, ancient buffalo, and vibrant zebras. In a way, you will feel that you have just stepped into a new world filled with wonder and excitement. And you’ve only just pulled in. Tennessee’s only drive-through safari park is truly a captivating place.

Read More
StoriesSeth HardenJackson TN, Tennessee, West Tennessee, Alamo TN, Tennessee Safari Park, safari, park, animals, Seth Harden, Katie Howerton, TCAT, Tennessee College of Applied Technology, John Conley, tourism, peacocks, camels, buffalo, zebra, endangered species, Vol. 2 Issue 1, zoo, Africa, Asia, Europe, kangaroos, Australia, wildebeests, bison, fallow deer, pot belly pig, drive-through, giraffe, exotic, Yellowstone National Park, antelope, Père David’s deer, China, Boxer Rebellion, San Diego Zoo, bontebok, ellipsis waterbuck, scimitar oryx, extinct, gemsbok, wildlife, nature, conservation, preservation, children, kids, education, addax, dama gazelle, pygmy hippo, Highway 412, Tourism Guide 2020
To Preserve & Promote Beauty
To Preserve & Promote Beauty

When I first moved to Jackson, my only regret in my college choice was (what seemed to me) the lack of natural beauty in the university’s town. As a Middle Tennessee native and an East Tennessee enthusiast, I grew up enthralled by the beauty of Tennessee’s landscape: the rolling hills, slow-moving rivers, and Blue Ridge Mountains in the east. Hence, my relocation to West Tennessee was, quite literally, flattening.

Read More
StoriesGuest ContributorJackson TN, Tennessee, Lauren Bone, Josh Garcia, Parks & Recreation, Middle Tennessee, East Tennessee, nature, river, West Tennessee, outdoors, beauty, park, Cypress Grove, litter, graffiti, forrest, woods, Sandy MacDiarmid, Mayor Jerry Gist, green belt, Jackson Fairgrounds, Kate Campbell Robertson Memorial Park, I-, tourism, urban nature center, Airways Boulevard, 45 Bypass, education, children, scout, Union University, wildlife, conservation, Friend of Cypress Grove, kids, fishing, birds, Mile for Mile, Patagonia, Kris Tompkins, Conservation Patagonia, trees, service, volunteer, community, land, I-40, Vol. 2 Issue 1
Vol. 2, Issue 1: Discovery | Spring 2016 Promo Video
Vol. 2, Issue 1: Discovery | Spring 2016 Promo Video

We are so excited to bring you Vol. 2, Issue 1: Discovery! Preorder your copy of this spring 2016 magazine today, available February 20, 2016. It premieres first at the Star Center's Andrew Peterson Concert. You can pick up your preordered copy at the concert or theCO, or you can have it shipped to you. Enjoy this short promo video hinting at some of our best stories, including Marmilu Farms, Tennessee Safari Park, Cypress Grove, Rugged Reclaimers, and HaliHannigan's.

Read More
FilmsKatie HowertonJackson TN, Tennessee, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Katie Howerton, Star Center, concert, music, Andrew Peterson, fundraiser, literacy, Marmilu Farms, Tennessee Safari Park, farm, park, animals, safari, Cypress Grove, nature, Rugged Reclaimers, local, local business, local shop, local food, local restaurant, food, restaurant, cupcake, HaliHannigan's Cupcakery, Discovery, Vol. 2 Issue 1, Alice Calvery, Alice Hardin, The Kissing Tree, OJH Promo
Concrete Ain't Cuttin' It
Concrete Ain't Cuttin' It

The pine trees towered over us, swaying precariously in the winds high above, but down on the pine needle-laden ground my boys and I hardly felt the gusts. Besides, we were hard at work and couldn’t be bothered with the weather. We had gathered pieces of mostly rotting wood with plans to erect a grand establishment: a place that would say, “We were here, and we did something great.”

Read More
EssaysGinger WilliamsJackson TN, Tennessee, Ginger Williams, backyard, family, tree, woods, park, North Park, parenthood, parents, mother, motherhood, childhood, children, My Side of the Mountain, imagination, Union University, University of Memphis Lambuth, arboretum, plants, pretend, leaves, creativity, explore, exploration, discover, discovery