Category: Local Writing
Extensive catalogue found at Bryce Harmon, Author at The Murfreesboro Pulse.
Contributing F&P Authors found in Category, “Local Writing.”
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Boro Fondo 2025: As Cocky as a Nuclear Family, We Pedal.
Murfreesboro, TN – Murfreesboro’s annual, non-profit, music, cycling and arts festival, Boro Fondo Festival, took place, this year, Septembers 19 – 21, organized by a group of volunteer, event staff featuring area bands playing along at a preset route of stops down Main St., Saturday, September 20, 2025 from beginning festival venue, almost-51-year-old, Century 21…
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Full Throttled Music and Bikes at Big Daddy’s Rock Festival: TN Blues Mob Confirmed on new John Carpenter series.
A manifold of motorcycles [with a mix of local club patches] rolled into Big Daddy’s Handlebars for an inaugural, all-day, live music festival, Big Daddy’s Rock Festival, featuring a lineup of six, area-local bands including Rebels Opera, Rattle Trapp, Hammerhead, Pull, Tennessee Blues Mob, and Rising Up Angry, with Evil Twin performing before Nashville, 70’s…
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The Laboratory Mixes Up Murfreesboro’s Art and Music Community.
A diverse lineup of bands, including Section 1, Carburator, Scex tape Massacre, and Wound Flower, jammed the basement of Murfreesboro square cannabis dispensary, The Laboratory, August 22, 2025, for a newly established music and arts venue curated by area artist and muralist/Laboratory manager, Ryan Frizzell, August 22, 2025. While local vendors set up shop in…
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Amber Lelli: local artist/MTSU grad/understudy of Alan LeQuire, the guy who did the Athena statue in the Parthenon. The gallery she works out of is having a big thing in June honoring the anniversary of the making of Athena. I think her being a Blue Raider might be of interest. Let me know what you think and if it can get into the paper. Also, if you need me to send it to a different spot let me know.
By William Womack Let’s assume the question was posed, “Where does someone start if they want to learn more about the local Middle Tennessee art scene? The answer is quite simple: Mt. Juliet sculptor, printmaker, and marquetry artist, Amber Lelli, is a graduate of Murfreesboro’s Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), who has lived and honed…
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Flowers for a Place
Story by Matt Ward To the current residentsUpstairs Apartment302 Locust St.Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee No doubt you wonder why a stranger has sent you flowers. It is, in this instance, not because of who you are, but because of where you are-a modest little upstairs apartment that has much significance for me. Please let me tell…
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Whitewash Chronicles, cont’d (2nd installment)
with sweat running off his forehead and down his face. Now it was getting to be crunch time. If we didn’t get a really good ride now we weren’t going to make it to Ft. Myers. We would be doomed to spending the night out in the open and sleeping in a ditch somewhere along…
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The Whitewash Chronicles
…I went ballistic, “Gary, g–damn it, wake up! Hey! Wakeup! You’re asleep! Wake up! We’re running off the fckin’ road -but he wouldn’t wake up, so I climbed over the doghouse and grabbed the steering wheel to keep us out of the guard rails, and at the same time […] started shaking like hell.
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William Womack’s, “The Hotel”/WNXP, Bobby Nashville Rooftop Concerts/Great Barrier Reef Live(s)!
As he drove hurriedly down the street, he couldn’t help but notice the sun was shining. It was supposed to be a cloudy day; there was even a small chance of rain. He liked the rain. Rain, darkness, and clouds; these all fit his personality. The sadness that permeated his life was still very much…
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Is It Haunted? (true story)
When we moved into this house, it was already 71 years old. Having been built in 1903, it’s now over 100 and we are its longest occupants. People have a fascination with old houses, and when it passes the century mark, it becomes an object of speculation. “Is it haunted?” they ask. “If it is,”…
