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Shelby Park
Sprawling greenspace built over a bankrupt Victorian-era streetcar amusement ground, with a lake and wooded trails.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Shelby Park in Nashville opens on a Sunday afternoon in eighteen ninety-four, when a parachuting aerialist and her poodle drifted down over a private pleasure ground built by a streetcar company to sell trolley rides. You will hear about the crowds, the jugglers, and the brass band that packed this meadow through the eighteen nineties. It follows what a business built entirely on Sunday crowds does once they stop coming.
This audio guide was created using AI.