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Not for Sale

A Mount Juliet family protects land passed down through generations Article by Elise Newkirk | Photography by Courtesy of Jeremy Hayes In a town growing as quickly as Mount Juliet, it’s easy to assume progress always comes at the cost of the past. New neighborhoods rise. Businesses expand. Land that once held stories becomes something new. But for Jeremy Hayes, some stories aren’t meant to be replaced. They’re meant to be protected. For families like his, the land isn’t just a backdrop to...

Arts + Culture

A Legacy Built on Song

How Mount Juliet's Chris Blair created a songwriter haven in the heart of Nashville Article by Elise Newkirk | Photography by Courtesy of The Listening Room For more than two decades, The Listening Room Cafe has offered something rare in Music City: a place where the songs - and the stories behind them - take center stage. For founder Chris Blair, the vision was never complicated. “The vision was simple: to create a place where songwriters could share the stories behind the songs and where...

Food + Beverage

Summer Street Corn Dip

A fresh, flavor-packed summer dip perfect for cookouts, porch nights and pool days Article and Photography by Elise Newkirk Every summer seems to have that recipe - the one friends request over and over, the one that disappears first at every gathering, the one people casually hover around with a tortilla chip in hand pretending they’re “just trying one more bite.” For our family this year, it’s Summer Street Corn Dip. I first found the recipe during a late-night Pinterest scroll and...

Arts + Culture

Finding the Funny

How a Mount Juliet comedian finds purpose, perspective, and humor in life’s most unexpected moments Article by Elise Newkirk | Photography by Taylor Brown When Aaron Weber first stepped onto a Nashville stage in 2015, there was no grand plan - just a mic, a room, and the realization that comedy didn’t come with a gatekeeper. “You kind of just have to start doing it,” he says. More than a decade later, Weber is still doing just that - only now, the stakes feel a little different. In the...