MONTHLY
Letter from the Publisher
"Home isn't a place, it’s a feeling" The YOUR Williamson Dunk Tank returns to Main Street Festival on April 23rd & 24th on the corner of 3rd Avenue South and the Square!
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Dear Readers,
With this issue every year, it feels like spring has sprung. Or, in the case of most Tennessee Aprils – it is certainly trying to! It’s no secret that the home industry in Williamson County is always and increasingly over the top. Over any number of years and even economic crisis, our community has seen the home building, home selling and home buying markets thrive and exceed most national thresholds of success. Houses, in general, have always been of interest to me - whether they be historic or simply beautiful. I love to know more about many of the houses surrounding us here in Williamson County.
SHELLY AND FRIENDS,HIGH TEA AT CARNTON C. 1987
pass them. Each house speaks to its inhabitants and all who visit there.
When spring does come, I think nearly everyone’s thoughts turn to home. It’s time to spruce up, replant, clean out, clean up and spit-shine everything, especially outdoors. Will we just plant more flowers this year or go all out and do a garden? I know I am always watching my rose and hydrangea bushes as soon as the weather turns warm, and it doesn’t truly feel like the season is here until I see those first buds. Yes, we all suffer thanks to the wonderful Tennessee pollen, but with red eyes and sniffing Perhaps no other home in Williamson County noses, we still welcome their colorful displays with enthralls me as much as Carnton. So, in writing this glee every year. month’s home feature on Carnton, I remembered my own fascination with the house and my personal With spring comes events, and I can think of no history there. We go on to honor community legend better occasion to showcase spring in Williamson Robert Hicks in this issue, who passed away in County than the Main Street Festival. It is a two-day February and left behind a legacy of contributing celebration of art, music and culture set against to the preservation of not only Carnton but our the backdrop of downtown Franklin and spring. entire community – our home. It doesn’t get any better! And, of course, spring means rebirth and our acknowledgment of the We make a home in many different ways and in true Resurrection through our Easter celebrations, many different measures, but wherever we make our also as synonymous with spring as any flower. I home, the home itself represents more than brick see all things new and reborn through the lens of and mortar, three bedrooms or six, a pool or zero Easter morning when the Lord is risen, and he is lot line. In so many ways, a home represents who risen indeed! we are and what we value. When I think of home, I think of the different homes I grew up in, whether Enjoy your spring, your home and garden, a grandparent’s or my family’s. These places, and Williamson County and remember – don’t break our experiences there, define us. The antiques and out that white until Easter morning! NO matter how other collections I have inherited from numerous much you may want to! It just isn’t right. family sources and those of my husband – gathered in the same manner, fill our home now, and each piece speaks to me when I encounter it within my own home’s walls. Photos of loved ones, important Shelly Robertson Birdsong moments and indelible memories etched in our Editor In Chief | Publisher mind’s eye, become current in a moment when we shelly@robertsonmediagroup.com
