Monday, November 10, 2008

Tour of Memphis....field trip























































































October 28, 2008
I signed up (what was I thinking...only joking) to attend a field trip with Bryson's class to take a Tour of Memphis. Now I thought that being still relatively new to this area it would be great and even more so when I heard people who have lived here almost all their lives talk about things that they learned about after taking this field trip with their child. The thing that I didn't know was that it was going to be a six and a half hour field trip! :0( Honestly though it was not bad at all and we rode on Coach buses. BUT I must say that the weather in Memphis has been absolutely gorgeous...until the day of the field trip. I had to donn leather coat, scarf and even took along gloves just in case!!! Wouldn't it figure! And you know I don't do cold!
Well, we loaded onto the buses a little after 9am and started out tour. I will let you look at some of the pictures that I took and I am going to list some of the interesting facts about Memphis that I learned on this trip-
Love to you all and til next time-
DID YOU KNOW????
1. Although BB King is the KING of the Blues, WC Handy is the Father of the Blues
2. At St Jude, the hospital founded by Danny Thomas (who incidentally is buried there on the grounds) they treat children with catastrophic/terminal illnesses and no child is ever turned away for ANY reason.
3. The population for Metro Memphis is one million (WOW)
4. There is a house on Adams Street called Lee Fontaine Carriage House that supposedly has a ghost living in the attic named Molly.
5. The oldest dry goods store on Beale Street is A. Swaub. It has been running for over 100 years and has been in the same family.
6. Cotton is called "white gold" here in Memphis.
7. Robert Church is the first African American millionaire in memphis.
8. Lorraine Hotel is where Martin Luther King was assassinated.
9. 3 movies that were filmed in Memphis (amongst others) were 'Cast Away', 'The Firm' and "silence of the Lamb'.
10. The largest employer in Memphis is Federal Express
11. The Peabody hotel is famous for it's parading ducks.
...and there are many, many more neat fact and places to visit. Come see us and we can take you there!

1 comment:

Jennifer said...

Hey Handsome Bryson! Missed you this weekend! Great pix!!!