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Bridging Past & Future

f you look up the word “Americana” in the dictionary, don’t be surprised if the definition reads: Franklin, Tennessee. Its downtown features a quaint town square, a quintessential Main Street lined with boutiques and restaurants, and a 1930s theater with red neon enhanced by a thriving arts scene—not shocking, given the location is in the shadow of country music’s capital, Nashville. But the icing on the cake? A novel-turned-Hallmark-television movie in the

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