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Well Done, Sister Suffragette
Well Done, Sister Suffragette

Did you know that Tennessee was the deciding factor in ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment? I’ve lived here my entire life, and I didn’t realize this until a few days ago. I’m a woman who started voting in Madison County elections in 2011, but I would not have had that privilege if I had been born before 1920. If I were a black woman, I would not have been able to vote in the South without threats to my life and racist voter suppression state laws until 1965.

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Olivia ChinJackson TN, Tennessee, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 5 Issue 1, women, Women's History Month, female, women's rights, voting rights, suffrage, Mary Poppins, Olivia Skelton, history, Nineteenth Amendment, politics, equality, Emmeline Pankhurst, activist, feminism, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Church Terrell, Memphis TN, Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, Black History Month, African American, slavery, black, Robert Church, Oberlin College, Washington D.C., National Association of Colored Women, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Sue Shelton White, protest, Henderson TN, Supreme Court, National Women's Party, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Gabrielle Harris, Wanda Stanfill, Jackson City Plaza, WRAP, RIFA
Gather: March 2019
Gather: March 2019

As the weather gradually warms up this month, we’re all eager to get out of the house and find unique ways to spend our weekends. This March is full of exciting events, new and old, and many of which are as fun for kids and they are for adults. Check them out!

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Events, GuidesKatie HowertonJackson TN, Tennessee, Katie Howerton, Peter Pan, ice skating, entertainment, event, Carl Perkins Civic Center, theatre, West Tennessee GenerosiTEA Party, tea party, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, kids, children, girls, family, fundraiser, The Barn at Snider Farms, beauty, fashion, Motor Mania Car Show, cars, car show, Rusty's TV & Movie Car Museum, Thomas Media, Jackson Fairgrounds, motorcycle, Interfaith 5k, 5k, running, race, KingDom SeeKers Interdenominational Church, RIFA, WRAP, athletics, Prohibition, Jackson Escape Rooms, escape room
Gather: December 2018
Gather: December 2018

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, y’all! Jackson has so much family fun for you this holiday season, so check out these five favorite events happening this December.

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GuidesKatie HowertonJackson TN, Tennessee, parade, tourism, Katie Howerton, entertainment, downtown Jackson, Christmas, holidays, Nell Huntspon, RIFA, concert, music, local music, the arts, LOLO, Coopertheband, Forked Deer Homeschool Parade, The Skeleton Krew, The Jukes, Pop-Up Shop, University of Memphis Lambuth, The Baker's Rack, Christmas in the City, non-profit, family, CrossFit, athletics, competition, sports, Dream Builders Gala, New Year's Eve, New Southern, fundraiser, Habitat for Humanity, event
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist

Ordinary guys don’t spend too much time thinking about the best escape route out of a restaurant or a home or out of town. And while most people I know aren’t worried about the trackability of their IP addresses or burner phones or whether or not they’ve been recorded on too many security cameras in public, that’s not the case for Lee Wilson. But then again, Lee isn’t exactly having an ordinary moment.

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StoriesJosh GarciaJackson TN, Tennessee, Josh Garcia, Hunted, CBS, TV, television, Lee Wilson, Hilmar Skagfield, Jackson Escape Rooms, reality TV, Union University, local business, entrepreneur, theCO, Jared Dauenhauer, CO.STARTERS, RIFA, Murfreesboro Escape Rooms, Murfreesboro TN, Waco Escape Rooms, Waco TX, tornado, Beth Wilson, competition, City Fellowship Baptist Church, community, church, Food For All, Best of 2017, tourism
On: Jackson's Best-Kept Secret
On: Jackson's Best-Kept Secret

Eggs. Flour. Milk. Sugar. Your basic ingredients for a cupcake. But so much more than that goes into the cupcakes at HaliHannigan’s Café & Cakery. Five years ago a cozy little space in the Columns bedecked in pink and black opened its doors—and its heart—to the Jackson community. Neill and Christi Bartlett, the husband and wife team that co-own HaliHannigan’s (whose name is derived from various parts of the names of their three daughters), were ready for a change.

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StoriesGuest ContributorJackson TN, Tennessee, Tracie Barnard, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1, HaliHannigan's Cupcakery, bakery, cupcake, cake, South Jackson, local, local business, local restaurant, local food, The Columns, Vann Drive, Neill Bartlett, Christi Bartlett, Alabama, baking, food, donate, fundraising, Belle Mitchell, brain tumor, St. Jude Children's Hospital, brain cancer, cancer, death, Michael Brockmeyer, police, Jackson Police Department, Adopt-A-Team, Newborns in Crisis, RIFA, Regional Inter-Faith Association, The Dream Center, Angel Tree, Operation Christmas Child, Carl Perkins Center, holiday, Taste of Home, Olivia Newton-John, Richard Marx, lunch, sandwich, salad, soup, Madison South Shopping Plaza, coffee