点评:How special is Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee? When singer/songwriter Taylor Swift, who lived in Nashville during the beginning of her music career, returned in 2003 for her Eras Tour, a bench dedicated to her was installed in the park. Located at 2500 West End Avenue, two miles west of downtown Nashville, across the street from the campus of Vanderbilt University, Centennial Park is a 132-acre urban park that opened in 1903 and is most famous for being the site of the Parthenon, one of Nashville's most recognizable attractions. Once a farmland owned by one of the city's earliest and richest families, it had a large sheep herd, a son who was known as the "Wool King of the World," owned 300 slaves and produced a daughter who married Andrew Jackson. The park also contains Lake Watauga, a small artificial lake, sunken gardens, a bandshell, the Confederate Private Monument, a recreation center, the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument and Cockrill Springs. In 2005, the park became Nashville's first wireless internet park by offering free Wi-Fi internet access to park patrons.
翻译:位于田纳西州纳什维尔的百年纪念公园究竟有何特别之处?歌手兼词曲创作人泰勒·斯威夫特(Taylor Swift)在其音乐生涯初期曾居住在纳什维尔,2003年她带着“时代巡回演唱会”(Eras Tour)重返纳什维尔时,公园里特意为她设立了一张纪念长椅。百年纪念公园位于西区大道2500号,距离纳什维尔市中心以西两英里,与范德比尔特大学校园隔街相望。这座占地132英亩的城市公园于1903年开放,最著名的当属帕特农神庙,它是纳什维尔最具代表性的景点之一。公园的前身是纳什维尔最早也是最富有的家族之一的农场,该家族拥有庞大的羊群,其子被称为“世界羊毛大王”,拥有300名奴隶,其女嫁给了安德鲁·杰克逊。公园内还有瓦陶加湖(Lake Watauga,一座小型人工湖)、下沉式花园、露天音乐台、南方邦联士兵纪念碑、休闲中心、田纳西州妇女选举权纪念碑以及科克里尔泉(Cockrill Springs)。2005年,该公园成为纳什维尔首个无线网络公园,为游客提供免费Wi-Fi上网服务。