The Memphis 10: Time for change at Tom Lee Park

A double-fistful of observations on the week in Memphis

By , Daily Memphian Published: April 02, 2019 3:13 PM CT
<strong>A jogger passes the Tom Lee memorial, named after the local hero who rescued 32 people from a sinking steamboat in 1925.</strong> (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)

A jogger passes the Tom Lee memorial, named after the local hero who rescued 32 people from a sinking steamboat in 1925. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)

Chris Herrington
Daily Memphian

Chris Herrington

Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.

For decades now we’ve treated Tom Lee Park – 30 precious acres linking the heart of Downtown to the Mississippi River – as a kind of Liberty Bowl West: a venue to be fully used a few days each May, a de facto fairgrounds.

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