Professor to discuss study abroad trip

Derek Frisby, assistant professor of history at MTSU, will talk about his upcoming study-abroad trip to some of the sites of World War II's European Theater of Operations on the next edition of MTSU on the Record" with host Gina Logue.The program airs at 8 a.m. Sunday on WMOT-FM.
From May 19 to June 23, Frisby and students in his Warfare and Public Memory in Europe class will tour Normandy, Bastogne, Dachau and the Eagle's Nest, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's retreat in the mountains above Berchtesgarden.

Students will follow the route of the 101st Airborne Division's Band of Brothers.Tours of Omaha and Utah beaches, Arnhem and the Battle of the Bulge site. They will also see the Bayeux Tapestry, Paris, Verdun, Waterloo and Operation Market Garden, fought in Germany and the Netherlands.During January, Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation is offering 25 percent off Individual yearly and monthly passes at SportsCom and Patterson Community Center. The discount begins Jan. 2 and ends Jan. 31.

Passes include use of pools, wellness centers, full court gymnasiums, Tot Watch, water and land exercise classes, recreation programs and more at both facilities.Admission to the new outdoor pool at SportsCom requires a premium pass.Sons of Confederate Veterans Murfreesboro Camp No. 33 will have its annual Battle of Murfreesboro memorial service at 2 p.m. Jan. 2 at the Confederate Circle in Evergreen Cemetery.The site is the final resting place of about 2,000 Confederate soldiers that were killed during the Civil War.This is the start of the Civil War's sesquicentennial and this is one of the events that Murfreesboro SCV Camp No. 33 has planned to commemorate the occasion.