With the aid of my trusty iPhone, we traveled to downtown Memphis to first visit the Pink Palace which is not what it sounds like. It is a museum (natural history, science, history, planetarium, IMAX) that got its beginning in a Hugh mansion built by the inventor of the super market. He was the first to let the shopper pick up their items and take them to the check out. Became Piggly Wiggly. The building was greatly enlarged into a very classy museum. We were impressed with their evolution exhibit. They hit hard on the scientific evidence and emphasized the process of science vs religion.
Also their civil wash exhibit was interesting to us because it showed it from the souths vantage. Their minerals collection was beautiful.
Our second stop was the national civil rights museum which is in and across the street from the Lorraine Motel where MLK was shot.
While we were there a soldier took her oath as she re enlisted for another four years of military service in front of the motel. A man told me that many people choose to do this kind of thing frequently in this place
After lunch we headed back to the suburb of Germantown where Sherrill and Bev Ray live. Their house is full of family antiques of all types. I consider their house to be the third museum we visited today! Sherrill (who shares an ancestor with me, Swedish of course) and spent the afternoon looking at photos she has from her grandmother. She is trying to find out who is in the pictures. I didn't recognize anyone.
Sherrill and husband Bev
I enjoyed driving in and around Memphis. Without the iPhone it would have been a nightmare. Violet, my Prius navigator, was not helpful.
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