The Big Ponder
The Big Ponder
Goethe-Institut
What’s a Sister City Really?
28 minutes Posted Mar 27, 2019 at 10:00 am.
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In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days - complete with corndogs and cowboy hats. This is one of the fruits of the sister city relationship between Nashville and Magdeburg. Our producer Jakob Lewis, a Nashville citizen, goes to Magdeburg to see where the rubber meets the road for Sister Cities' idealistic vision to “promote peace one individual, one community at a time.”