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Nashvillians Explore Local Sustainability Efforts Through New Documentary ‘It’s All Connected: The Art of Sustainability’
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Nashvillians Explore Local Sustainability Efforts Through New Documentary ‘It’s All Connected: The Art of Sustainability’
The Contributor newspaper means more to me than just having my own business — that in and of itself is huge.
In the 50s and 60s, people came to Nashville to make it big in the music world. They either made it big or went back home. People lived in boarding rooms for about $10 a week. Eating was cheap: for about $12 or $13, you could eat a steak dinner. Everything was centrally located, so you could walk everywhere you needed to go.
The Contributor is an award winning street newspaper, but that’s only part of the story. As a vendor and writer for this publication, when I look through its pages every two weeks I see so much more. There is a vast array of stories that can be used to teach people of ALL ages something new, much like the Weekly Reader did for me as a young child and as a teenager, really throughout my scholastic life. Every Friday like clockwork our classroom would receive the latest edition. I would immediately open it up.
‘Holland’ turns Americana idealism on its head.
“We need this belief in people’s agency and dignity. That is what I remembered the spirit of The Contributor being.”