Laura Dileonardi: Bring your mess

Laura Dileonardi: Bring your mess

LAURA DILEONARDI’S life felt like a cluttered room of chaos with no doors. In 2012, she became pregnant for the first time. With the new reality came anxiety, exhaustion, and loneliness. She struggled to make connections in her community. Mother support networks...
Matthew Black: Crafting spaces, creating change

Matthew Black: Crafting spaces, creating change

CONSTRUCTION CAN be a sweaty, dirty job, and shed manufacturing is no different. But Matthew Black of Blacks Buildings isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty for his business or for the community. As a modular certified home builder, Blacks Buildings constructs sheds,...
Francis Garcia: Building hope for Lebanon’s youth

Francis Garcia: Building hope for Lebanon’s youth

MENTAL HEALTH is an issue for people all across the United States, especially for children — but Lebanon has a champion fighting back. Francis Garcia has lived in Middle Tennessee for over 21 years and in Lebanon for five, and his work changes lives across the state. ...
Letter From the Editor

Letter From the Editor

THE SOUNDS of the self-checkout registers beep through the entire store. The short lines of people with baskets and carts move across the reflective tile like a conveyor belt and out the door. Uh, oh. A man at the checkout stood frozen. The total amount due on the...
Mary and Harry Harris: A legacy of love

Mary and Harry Harris: A legacy of love

Sitting side by side on a comfy couch in the cozy living room of their Lebanon home, Mary and Harry Harris were surrounded by a lifetime of memories — old magazine articles, newspaper clippings, awards, and accolades carefully laid out as if to tell the story of their...