🪑 Morgan Wallen faces chair fallout

😞 Graves of Enslaved People Found at the Hermitage

Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage has discovered the graves of at least 28 enslaved people just 1,000 feet from the mansion. An anonymous donor interested in finding the gravesite funded archaeologist James Greene’s investigation, which uncovered the graves. [AP News]

• Related: Belle Meade Plantation’s Journey to Jubilee tour revision. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🍻 Morgan Wallen Resubmits Sign Proposal

Morgan Wallen’s This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen is again seeking Metro Council approval on a 20-foot aerial sign for the Broadway business, which the council denied earlier this year. We chat about that and more on today’s City Cast Nashville podcast episode. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

• Yesterday, Wallen pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts, which were reduced from felonies prior to the hearing, for throwing a chair from the roof of Chief's in April. [The Tennessean]

🏈 Vanderbilt Commodores Win SEC Honors

The Vanderbilt Commodores racked up two honors after their historic season. Head coach Clark Lea was chosen as the SEC Coach of the Year, and quarterback Diego Pavia became the league’s first SEC Newcomer of the Year. [VU Commodores]

🌱 Hemp Industry Attempts To Stop Ban

New rules that will go into effect on Dec. 26 would bar the manufacture, distribution, and sale of many hemp products sold in Tennessee. On Monday, the Tennessee Growers Association and the Tennessee Healthy Alternatives Association will seek a temporary injunction from a Nashville court. [TN Lookout]

• Benny the CannaBUS explains what’s being sold in Nashville. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

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