Posts by Courtney Searcy
Around The World: A food tour of Jackson
Around The World: A food tour of Jackson

I love a good recommendation. If you can tell me what you love and why you love it, chances are it will open me up to trying a new dish I wouldn’t have tried on my own. Chronic indecision? Let someone else decide for you.

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Guides, Food, Local BusinessCourtney Searcylocal food, recommendations, Jamaican African Cuisine, Sakura, Takos Borukas, Mediterranean Cuisine, Tako Supremo, El Mariachi Tacos, International Food Market, asia garden, Thai Café, La Cubanita, Sizzler Cuisine of India, La Michoacana, Los Portales, Gonzalez Pupuseria y Restaurante, La Bamba, our jackson table, Food
Fresh Paint : Public Art in Uncertain Times
Fresh Paint : Public Art in Uncertain Times

There are plenty of conversations about what art is and isn’t, who it is and isn’t for. I’m interested in this conversation, but I can’t answer that question, unless I answer it for myself. This September, I painted a mural that is now one of the first things to greet you when you arrive in downtown Jackson. Nestled just past Grubb’s Grocery and the Jackson Walk on North Highland, it’s a bright and idyllic scene, and I’m not oblivious to the fact that it’s an even more idealistic message: Love your neighborhood.

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EssaysCourtney SearcyJackson TN, Tennessee, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 5 Issue 3, Courtney Searcy, Cari Griffith, downtown Jackson, art, public art, mural, Grubb's Grocery, Jackson Walk, North Highland Avenue, neighborhood, community, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Mr. Rogers, Fred Rogers, painting, Chandelier, Hope Café & BBQ, Hope Recovery Center, Sister Corita Kent, Immaculate Heart College, Scott Conger, Ava Pugh, Makoto Fujimura, Kintsugi, Aaron Hardin, Coalescence, ComeUnity Café, Forrest Hall, PPG Paints, Heather Lutz, Annalise, Blake Marlar, Leo Galan, Madison Borden, Jackson Chamber, JDDC, Jackson Downtown Development Coorporation, Visit Jackson TN, Women's History Month, Tourism Guide 2020
A Landscape in Lyrics
A Landscape in Lyrics

If you drive through the suburban sprawl surrounding Nashville, headed west towards Jackson, Tennessee, the rolling hills will soon taper to level ground. You’ll know you’re almost there when a field of trees swallowed in kudzu forms hovering masses, almost like ancient creatures gathered alongside the road. We don’t think about it too much, but there’s something to the landscape of a place. Plenty of artists have tried, but it shapes us in ways we can’t quite name.

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StoriesCourtney SearcyJackson TN, Tennessee, Erin Rae, Courtney Searcy, Kristi Woody, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 4 Issue 2, music, singer-songwriter, songwriting, Jackson native, Sally Mann, Erin Rae McKaskle, Erin Rae and the Meanwhiles, Putting On Airs, album, family, homosexual, Virginia Stackens-Crump, Nashville TN, the arts, Café Coco, Crazy Talk, Soon Enough, John Paul White, Single Lock, Joe Garner, The Kernal, Dan Knobler, Jerry Bernhardt, Dominic Billett, NPR, women, Women's History Month
Everyday Exotic
Everyday Exotic

When I think about the vocation of a photographer, I think of the words of Simone Weil, saying that “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Paying attention is what gets most photographers into their profession. They pay attention and capture a moment and then linger in the darkroom, spending hours waiting to see an image develop from the blank white of a sheet of photo paper, the details slowly emerging in a chemical bath.

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StoriesCourtney SearcyJackson TN, Tennessee, Courtney Searcy, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 4, Simone Weil, photographer, photography, art, the arts, film, place, Aaron Hardin, Alice Hardin, Jackson Sun, photojournalism, Ethiopia, Indigenous Outreach International, ministry, University of Hartford, education, parenthood, father, infertility, A Night of Storytelling, A Night of Storytelling Spring 2017
New Life
New Life

While most of us are prone to toss out old things and run to the new, others are gifted with the vision to make something out of what the rest of us leave behind. Ellen Bennett, the creator of “The Restored Attic,” creates home decor and furniture pieces by repurposing found and thrifted materials. From childhood trips to yard sales with her father, she learned that she didn’t have to pay full price for anything. As she grew up, it evolved into trying to search for furniture and other pieces to decorate her home.

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StoriesCourtney SearcyJackson TN, Tennessee, Courtney Searcy, local, local business, Vintage Market, Ellen Bennett, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 1 Issue 1, The Restored Attic, thrift, art, craft, handmade, Jackson Pop-Up Shops, trash, recycling, furniture, Christian, vulnerability, Women's History Month