Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 1:48 pm

Superintendent Stuart Johnson of Stones River National Battlefield has announced that Linebaugh Public Library will host the traveling exhibit Listening to the Landscape: The Stories of Stones River National Battlefield now through March 9.

The exhibit highlights the changes that occurred on the battlefield landscape prior to the Civil War through the present. One of the four exhibit panels highlights the African American community called Cemetery that formed around Stones River National Cemetery
after the Civil War. Linebaugh Public Library will also feature books from its collection related to the exhibit.

History students from Middle Tennessee State University produced the exhibit, sponsored by Eastern National, the Public History Program at MTSU, the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, and Stones River National Battlefield.

Linebaugh Public Library is located on 105 W. Vine St. in Murfreesboro. Stones River National Battlefield is located on the Old Nashville Highway, northwest of Murfreesboro. More information is available at the visitor center, at the park web site (http://www.nps.gov/stri) or by calling (615)
893-9501.