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Pinewood Derby Car Here at the Pink Palace we have a large permanent collection of artifacts related to the Mid-South’s cultural and natural history. Like all accredited museums, we have a collections policy that lays out our procedures and responsibilities for acquiring, protecting and using the…
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The Museum’s Best Friends
Originally posted on The Pink Palace Family of Museums:
In 1959, a group of volunteers from the Junior League of Memphis started the Youth Museum project at the Pink Palace. They created touchable exhibits and led tours for school children. After several years of working with the museum, League volunteers Sara Misner and Merri Briggs…
Just don’t talk about my body
My body is mine. I know that other people can see it, but seeing is not ownership. Seeing what I look like and knowing what I think and feel are not linked. My body is not a topic for conversation. My body is not the most interesting thing about me, but it can do wonderfulContinue reading “Just don’t talk about my body”
Hard work
Every morning, I watch my almost toddling toddler begin his hard labor. This work will be constant throughout the day, but he starts every morning in a frenzy to make up for the hours spent on his stomach sleeping. First is reasserting his friendship with his seventy pound mutt. After a lot of mutual kisses and pats,Continue reading “Hard work”
My Valentines
This year, I have three Valentines. My kid: My niece: And, of course, Greg. Instead of painting me a card, he is going to grill nice steaks in the cold and share a bottle of wine with me. It’s our traditional way to show we care.
Be Mine, Valentine
Originally posted on The Pink Palace Family of Museums:
Legend tells us that St. Valentine was an early Christian martyr who was imprisoned and sentenced to death for secretly marrying young soldiers despite Roman Emperor Claudius II’s ban on the practice. Before being executed, Valentine befriended his jailor’s daughter and wrote her a note signed…
Libraries We Love – The Pink Palace Library
I wrote a guest post for the Little Free Library’s blog about our LFL at the Pink Palace. Check it out! Libraries We Love – The Pink Palace Library.
Down and up again
To set the scene: there is peace in the kingdom. The dog is upstairs; the kid is playing with a toy. I’m sitting in a chair alternately reading and having a conversation in repeated monosyllables while exercising my peripheral vision. Then it gets too quiet for a moment and the crying starts. Baby down. AfterContinue reading “Down and up again”
A Collection of Jars
Originally posted on The Pink Palace Family of Museums:
The Memphis Pink Palace Museum has a wide variety of objects in our permanent collection, including a biological collection of organic specimen in jars. The “wet collection” is stored in fluid, usually a pure alcohol solution or a mixture of alcohol, formaldehyde and acetic acid. The…
“Floppsy Woppsy is Dead, Dead, Dead!”
Originally posted on The Pink Palace Family of Museums:
When the first Piggly Wiggly opened in 1916, it had a cousin named Floppsy Woppsy. The Floppsy Woppsy was a fruit window located inside the lobby of the original stores. It carried grapes, citrus, peaches, apples, pears and cantaloupes (but never watermelons). Floppsy Woppsy turned out…
Caroline Mitchell Carrico 