In 2022, we made a promise to meet you where you are — and we delivered

In 2022, our first year on air, the This Is Nashville team went out all across this city and region getting to know you and your community better. From the start, we wanted to deliver you a variety of voices and perspectives in a fresh and dynamic way. Most of all, we set out to meet you, our community, where you are. For this special episode, we retraced some of the steps we took last year to bring you the best stories of 2022, from posting up under the Jefferson Street bridge in search of the missing purple martins, to riding shotgun with a cab driver on a busy Friday night. These are just a few of the stories highlighted in this episode. Press play for more. ‘It is built on a rock’: A historic Black church in Hendersonville reflects on the legacy buried in its foundation by Rose Gilbert Displaced purple martins struggle to find new Middle Tennessee roost by Tasha A.F. Lemley The case of the missing fang and the meteoric rise of Nashville’s beloved hockey team by Rose Gilbert Larkspur’s natural burial restores the land and returns the dead to their roots by Tasha A.F. Lemley How a Persian-owned rug business in Nashville is keeping the art of weaving alive by Dereen Shirnekhi ‘This is church for some people’: After nearly two decades in business, Lipstick Lounge is a fixture of queer community by Rose Gilbert