Episode Four: Repair

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of community pride and cleanliness in North Nashville through the experiences of Larry Turnley Jr. and his father.

Keeping North Nashville clean is important to Larry Turnley Jr., who owns a trash hauling business. It's about making a living, but it's also about pride in community. His father, Larry Sr. — known in the neighborhood as Fever — now works alongside him. For a long time, this didn’t seem like it’d ever be possible. After the tumult of the '60s and '70s, the destruction that made way for the interstate, and the hard times that followed, Fever found himself among those in the community struggling to make ends meet. He ended up incarcerated, and then, his son was sentenced to life in prison. Hosted by M. Simone Boyd and Andrea Tudhope Produced, mixed and edited by Andrea Tudhope Original music by S-Wrap Additional production by Steve Haruch

People in this episode

Hosts: M. Simone Boyd, Andrea Tudhope

Guest: Larry Turnley Jr.

Topics covered

• community pride
• history
• family
• incarceration
• cleanliness
• North Nashville

Keywords

• North Nashville
• community
• trash hauling
• incarceration
• family legacy
• pride
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: We Are North Nashville, S-Wrap, Steve Haruch

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