Nashville and The Arts
The Ingrams first settled in New Orleans, Louisiana, before eventually moving to Nashville. While Bronson was engaged with his family's business interests in the city, Martha raised the couple's four children and devoted herself to the local arts scene. After her appointment to the advisory board of the Kennedy Center in 1972, Martha Ingram began to work to develop a local performing arts facility. While the idea initially met considerable resistance, her eight-year fight gave rise to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC), a three-theatre facility located in downtown Nashville.
Much later, Ingram would help develop the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, which opened in 2005 and houses the Nashville Symphony. The center is named for the late Kenneth Schermerhorn, with whom Ingram was romantically linked after her husband's death.
Ingram's contributions to the arts, as well as her work in the volunteer community, in Nashville were recognized by The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. when they awarded her with the Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award in 1999.
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