In July 2024, we had an all-day event in Cumberland County. Here’s the group at the Cumberland Homesteads Tower.
In July 2025, Tennessee History for Kids will produce three all-day summer inservices — one in each Grand Division of the state.
We will start accepting reservations for these events in January 2025.
In 2019, at an all-day event in Greeneville, we got a tour of the Andrew Johnson Mansion. Teachers who attend our event on July 11 will do this tour!
The first will be on Friday, July 11, in Greeneville, at the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site and the General Morgan Inn.
It will include a walking tour of the Andrew Johnson Mansion and a trip to the grave of President Johnson.
David Ewing, shown here giving a tour to teachers in 2023, will be giving the tour of downtown Nashville on July 18, 2025.
The second will be on Friday, July 18, at the Main Nashville Public Library in downtown Nashville.
It will have a Civil Rights theme, with presentations on the what race relations were like between 1910 and 1950; Highlander Folk School; Fayette County Tent Cities; integration of Oak Ridge and Clinton High Schools; and the Nashville Sit-Ins.
It will also include a walking tour through Downtown Nashville.
Here was the crowd in 2019, when we had an all-day event at Discovery Park of America
The third will be on Monday, July 21, at Discovery Park of America in Union City.
The theme of this event will be “Tennessee and the Wild West.”
There will be presentations on David Crockett; West Tennessee’s Land Rush; the coming of the railroads; the California Gold Rush; and more.
This event will also include a guided tour of Discovery Park of America — which you REALLY need to see if you haven’t yet.
Stay tuned for more details!
