Across the river from the downtown core is LP Field, also known as the Coliseum and the home of the Tennessee Titans football team. Some consider the competition with NFL football in the city to be hockey's biggest problem in Nashville. We heard from local fans that in the fall when football is going strong, attendance for the Predators is a shadow of its spring figures.




There was a plaque for this statue that explained it is in honour of Tim Demonbreun who most assuredly would not have spelled his name that way given that he was a French-Canadian fur trader who went on to becoming Lt-Gov of Illinois and the "first citizen" of Nashville. Being not far from Louisiana I guess we shouldn't have been too surprised to find traces of French heritage in the area, including the name of the Predators' arena (we'll get to that in a minute).




The plaque outside the small settlement reconstruction near the waterfront says it all. I liked the inclusion of the dogs in the narrative.




On the opposite side of the Columbia River was a rather large, rather inexplicable steel sculpture. Given my art theory that you can replace the word "postmodern" with "useless" and not lose any meaning, I'd say this is a postmodern sculpture.




The country culture is certainly prevalent in Nashville, as is the tourism business, so we felt we had to make a stop in a clothing store to see if anything was reasonably priced. (Answer: no.) Here, James inspects the array of boots.

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