NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — As we all know, Nashville has often played a role in US history. Sometimes there are elements of those stories that become undertold.
One of those stories will now reach people in a new way.
Even in the rain, a crowd showed up on Church Street Saturday morning. A blue tarp covered something about to be unveiled. It was a bit of history so important to Richard Schweid, it brought him from his home in Barcelona back to the city where he grew up; Nashville.
"I feel great about the number of people who have turned up, many of whom I haven't seen for a long time," Schweid said, looking around.
It's all changed so much now, but on a stretch of Church Street, there used to be two particular bookstores.
Schweid's grandfather, Reuben M. Mills, opened R.M. Mills Bookst