Some of my favorite moments as a tour leader are watching the expressions of our travelers as they first encounter some of these wonders. There is a particular corner where I like to skip ahead just a little so I can savor the expressions as the group rounds the corner and sees the magnificent Eiffel Tower towering above them in all its glory.
Most people assume it was country music that gave Nashville its nickname, Music City. But you have to go back to the year 1871, when George L. White, music professor at the five-year-old Fisk School in Nashville, started a 9-member choral ensemble at the fledgling Fisk School.
