Adelicia Acklen: The Woman Beyond the Belmont Lore
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
28-9-2022 11:00 AM
Description
While stories of the Belmont Mansion’s matriarch haunting its halls have long contributed to Nashville’s legend and lore, they are patently false. More accurate, though seldom told, are tales of the ways in which the antebellum and Civil War-era South, itself, haunted Adelicia Acklen during her lifetime, and continue to do so to her memory. This talk seeks to push away those antebellum ghosts and cobwebs, place Acklen appropriately in nineteenth-century Nashville, and reveal there was more to her than the pink house she built at the top of the hill.
Recommended Citation
Jackson-Abernathy, Brenda, "Adelicia Acklen: The Woman Beyond the Belmont Lore" (2022). Humanities Symposium. 26.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2022/2022/26
Adelicia Acklen: The Woman Beyond the Belmont Lore
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
While stories of the Belmont Mansion’s matriarch haunting its halls have long contributed to Nashville’s legend and lore, they are patently false. More accurate, though seldom told, are tales of the ways in which the antebellum and Civil War-era South, itself, haunted Adelicia Acklen during her lifetime, and continue to do so to her memory. This talk seeks to push away those antebellum ghosts and cobwebs, place Acklen appropriately in nineteenth-century Nashville, and reveal there was more to her than the pink house she built at the top of the hill.
Comments
The Theme of September 28 is "Unleashing Social Innovation at Belmont University"
Convocation Credit: Intellectual Well-Being