Nerdy Trivia at Smyrna Library

Trivia is coming!

Join us at Smyrna Public Library as people from all over the seven kingdoms come together for a battle of wits!

The winner will win a prize, fit for a Lannister!

Saturday, May 27 at 2 PM - 4 PM

Turtles!

Turtles. Turtles. TURTLES! Turtle? Turtle. Turtle. turtle turtle turtle! TURTLE!!!!  May 20.

Event Reminder

There are still two more "All Around the World" events left, so if you have not gone yet, there is still time. Thursday May 18th and the 25th.

Help the Smyrna Police

The Smyrna Police Department needs help finding this suspect

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A Beach Party

In Murfreesboro they are having a beach party on May 12th at 5pm and it is just made for kids. So schedule ahead and have fun.

It's here...well soon anyway.

I talked last year in November about a movie being shot locally about the All Saints' Episcopal Church. Well guess what will be showing soon in August. All Saints is going to be a great movie.

About All Saints
ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock (John Corbett), the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all. 

After trading in his corporate sales career to become a pastor, Michael’s first assignment is All Saints, a quaint country church with a dozen members. It comes with a catch: he has to close the church doors for good and sell the prime piece of land on which it sits. While developers eagerly eye the property and the congregation mourns the inevitable, Michael and his family look forward to moving on to an established church where they can put down roots. 

But when the church hesitantly begins welcoming Karen (kuh-REN) refugees from Burma—former farmers striving for a fresh start in America—Michael feels called to an improbable new mission. Toiling alongside the Karen people, the congregation attempts to turn their fertile land into a working farm to pay the church’s bills and feed its newest people. 

Jeopardizing his family’s future by ignoring his superiors, Michael must choose between completing what he was assigned to do—close the church and sell the property—or listening to a still, small voice challenging the people of All Saints to risk it all and provide much-needed hope to their new community.

Here is also a video that has been released about the leaders of the community and their struggles.

Theaters & Tickets
ALL SAINTS opens in theaters on August 25 and as we get closer to that date, we will have a full list of theaters, show times, and tickets available. For now, be sure to sign up to get the latest updates about ALL SAINTS.

Website news

Well it is pretty much official on my end. Unless disaster strikes, I will be moving to Murfreesboro in Mid-July. At that point, unless I can find someone to take over here, I will be shutting down and turning off the lights as I leave.

If there is someone that wishes to take up the site, I will repurchase a year for the internet page ThisisSmyrnatn.com (all this page does is redirect to the blogspot site) and transfer the ownership and free hosting over to you, I will assign you admin control of Thisissmyrnatn.blogspot.com and the two facebook pages connected with the site. I will also help you find the resources and such for information to share here.

It has been fun and I hope I have helped you connect to the many services and events that occur in Smyrna.

Free comics!

Our local Library is hosting Free Comic Book Day...and you are invited

Come to Smyrna Public Library and enjoy Free Comic Book Day! There will be free comics, crafts, games, refreshments, and more! Come dressed up as your favorite character. All ages welcome.

Saturday, May 6 at 9 AM - 4 PM
400 Enon Springs Rd W, Smyrna, TN

Grand Opening

The old Town Centre has been rebuilt into something so much more. They are having their official grand opening and you should drop by for the fun and to check out a new resource for our community.

Smyrna has released some information on the offerings at the center.

They also got rid of that darn English style 'Centre' spelling and is now using 'center'. My computer always underlined it as a misspelled word. 

Free Quality Music

The Nashville symphony and Curb Youth Symphony is offering you a chance to hear some quality music. and it is FREE.  It is a trip to Nashville, but the cost, free, might make it worth the trip.

Side-by-Side Concert
Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 

SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER
PERFORMERS
Nashville Symphony
Curb Youth Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor

PROGRAM
Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
Plus one additional work to be announced
Featuring some of Middle Tennessee’s most gifted young musicians, the Curb Youth Symphony joins forces with the Nashville Symphony to perform Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a work of genius that sounds every bit as astonishing today as it did two centuries ago.

A joint program of the Blair School of Music and the Nashville Symphony, Curb Youth Symphony is open by audition to local students in 8th through 12th grades. The Side-by-Side Concert is the culmination of their hard work over the past year and will also feature the still-to-be-announced 2017 Curb Concerto Competition winner.

Admission is FREE. Seating is general admission, and tickets will be available in the Main Lobby of Schermerhorn Symphony Center starting at 5:30 p.m. on the evening of the performance.