New Information about the 2008 Nashville Reunion
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The very best thing about the 2008 1st Marine Division Reunion is that it will take place in Nashville, Tennessee, aka Music City USA! The crowning jewel for visitors to Nashville is the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. This opulent hotel is seven miles from Nashville's International Airport, 10 miles from downtown, and within walking distance of the Grand Ole Opry and the breathtaking Opry Mills Mall.
You can relax in 1 of 3 nationally acclaimed indoor gardens, the Cascades, the Conservatory, or the Delta. The Cascades, which cover two acres, features a 44-foot waterfall that cascades into a 12,500-square foot indoor lake. The Conservatory, which also comprises two acres (indoors), is devoted solely to tropical plants. The Delta covers 4.5 acres and features restaurants, shops and a water fountain that jets water 85 feet into the air to the accompaniment of music.
Complimenting the feel of the Delta is a river that wanders throught it with passenger-carrying flatboats. Admission to all this is free. (For a more thorough look at the hotel, access their website.)
For those who like statistics, the Opryland complex has 78 meeting rooms, 20 ballrooms, 5 boardrooms, and 8 exhibit halls. The Convention Center has 3 levels and 5 sections that provied 5 dining rooms, 3 cafes, 4 bars, 8 retail shops, and 4 recreation areas.
Opryland is world-renowned as a visitor's dream-and the pride of Nashville. (To get a feel for the city that music calls home, visit www.visitmusiccity.com/visitors/index.)
For the first-time visitor, Nashville is easily accessible by both air and ground. Interstates I-65, I-40, and I-24 intersect in Nashville. Music City USA is within 600 miles of 50% of the U.S. Population, providing extreme accessibility by air or by surface transportation.
By "extreme," we mean the Nashville International Airport has 16 airlines serving 86 markets and offers 404 daily airport arrivals and departures.
You've heard of "Southern hospitality?" In Nashville, more than 50,000 jobs are directly related to the hospitality industry. There are 32,851 hotel rooms in the city, and the Opryland Resort and Convention Center is now the largest non-gaming hotel property in the U.S., with 2,881 rooms and 288,999 square feet of exhibit space.
This Middle Tennessee area is a land of lush, green rolling hills, home to tulips, azaleas, irises, redbuds, magnolias and dogwoods. Nashville is the geographic and social center, home to music and fun loving recration of every stripe. Live outdoor concerts are scattered around town, from country music to pop and rap, to the best of classical at the brand-new Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
From the novel new zoo, to Opryland's acclaimed Gaylord Springs golf course, to the Wildhorse Saloon near the dock of the Memphis Belle riverboat, there truly is something for everyone in Nashville, Tennessee.
Now, in Nashville, when we issue an invitation, we simply say "Y'all come." But, when we invite everyone, as we're doing now to all members of the 1st Marine Division Association, we say, "All y'all come!" You don't want to miss this one.
