Posts Tagged ‘museum’
A Dream Reborn: National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
// November 14th, 2012 // No Comments » // Places
[Memphis, TN] — The assassin’s bullet that tragically ended the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 sent shock waves throughout the world and rattled the American Civil Rights Movement to its core. Although Dr. King died that day on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, his dream …read more…
Tennessee’s Museum of Appalachia preserves a disappearing way of life
// May 29th, 2012 // 2 Comments » // Places
[Clinton, TN] — John Rice Irwin was (and presumably, at 80+ years old, still is) a mountain man. Growing up in Tennessee’s Appalachian Mountains, he was fascinated with the stories told by the area’s old-timers and realized the culture of Appalachia was slowly disappearing as those residents passed away. Starting in the early 1960s, Irwin …read more…
America’s Secret City: Oak Ridge, TN and the American Museum of Science and Energy
// May 24th, 2012 // 1 Comment » // Places
[Oak Ridge, TN] — In an era of instantaneous information, it’s difficult to imagine the U.S. government being able to keep the existence of an entire city a secret. But 70 years ago, that’s exactly what happened. It was a time of unquestioning patriotism. What the government wanted, it got. And what the government wanted …read more…
Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY: Not just for boxing fans
// May 15th, 2012 // 5 Comments » // Places
[Louisville, KY] — At the Muhammad Ali Center, context is everything. If you come here expecting simply a boxing museum, you’ll be disappointed. In fact, I’ll admit that the Ali Center is normally the last place I’d have visited. While it’s widely recognized that Ali was perhaps “The Greatest” boxer ever — in fact, that …read more…
Testing…Testing… The Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
// November 18th, 2011 // 6 Comments » // Places
[Las Vegas, NV] — A nondescript office building on East Flamingo Road in Vegas holds secrets to America’s Atomic Age, and you don’t have to read WikiLeaks to learn them. On January 27, 1951, the first atomic bomb test was conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the remote desert north of Las Vegas. The …read more…
