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March 29, 2022 26 mins
In part 2 of our pod615 conversation with Tennessee author, playwright and song writer Margaret Britton Vaughn we go backstage at the Grand Ole Opry.
Her love for the Historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN is evident.
Stories about Minnie Pearl, Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr., The Carter Family including A.P. Carter, Janette Carter, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, String Bean, Roy Acuff, Tom T. Hall, Ernest Tubb, Marty Stuart and more.
As first creative recipient of the Mark Twain Fellowship from Elmira College in New York, she wrote here the popular work Foretasting Heaven; Conversations with Twain at Quarry Farm. She closes with stories from her time there.

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