There are 52 article(s) tagged Overton Park:

• July 2021

  • Free concerts return to Levitt Shell with scaled back, locally focused fall season

    The Levitt Shell’s fall concert season lineup has a Memphis-first bent.

    By Chris Herrington July 08, 2021

• May 2021

  • Opinion: A new course of optimism, from Sweetens Cove to Overton Park

    The remarkable Sweetens Cove Golf Club inspired Parks Dixon’s campaign to bring its designers to Memphis and turn them loose on Overton’s storied but long neglected nine.

    By Dan Conaway May 29, 2021

  • Whoa. Careful. Mind the ‘baby grass’ at Overton Park, please

    Careful where you step, please. Baby grass is growing on the Overton Park golf course.

    By Tom Bailey May 08, 2021

• April 2021

  • Activists saved Overton Park; now they just may stop a pipeline

    Two women are leading the effort to stop Byhalia Pipeline from running its crude oil through South Memphis neighborhoods. The fight is reminiscent of the battle won decades ago by women who stopped a freeway from running through Overton Park.

    By Don Wade April 19, 2021

  • In life and art, a happy ending to the park-freeway saga

    The Citizens to Preserve Overton Park took its fight to stop a highway all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Playwright Virginia Ralph saw an imaginative children’s musical in that real-life story.

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    Activists saved Overton Park; now they just may stop a pipeline

    By Don Wade April 19, 2021

  • ‘Dirt fishing': Old golf course shows its mettle

    What do you get when you mix bulldozers with acreage that has been populated for generations? “The opportunity of a lifetime,” says one hobbyist who spent 10 weeks hovering his metal detector over the Overton Park Golf Course.

    By Tom Bailey April 18, 2021

• March 2021

  • Opinion: Lessons from the grassroots environmental victory at Overton Park

    How did a small group of citizens persevere for so long to block an interstate route through the park? They cultivated relationships with the place, through walks in the forest and picnics by the lake. Close connections led to enduring affection.

    By Brooks Lamb March 02, 2021

• February 2021

  • Herrington: Celebrating a rare, brief and real Memphis winter

    Here’s to the iced-over trees that began our winter week. We got the eerie beauty without much of the damage. Here’s to the giant icicles forming from gutters and awnings, giving neighborhood strolls a beyond-the-Wall “Game of Thrones” vibe.

    By Chris Herrington February 19, 2021

  • Artists on dozers: ‘Shapers’ carve new landforms for Overton golf

    The people designing the changes at Overton Park golf course — and those on the bulldozers — consider the entire landscape as one big sculpture, not nine different holes with spaces in between.

    By Tom Bailey February 08, 2021

  • Overton Park during the pandemic and beyond

    Eric Barnes talks to Overton Park Conservancy director Tina Sullivan about the park, the future of Rust Hall, the golf course renovation and the change and development happening in the surrounding neighborhoods.

    By Eric Barnes February 03, 2021

• January 2021

  • Overton Golf Course closes Monday for reconstruction

    Overton Park golf course may be jammed this weekend with golfers playing one last round before the nine-hole track closes until the fall. The course is being redesigned and rebuilt.

    By Tom Bailey January 16, 2021

  • Designers share vision for Overton golf on walking tour

    So far, $2 million of the $2.5 million goal has been raised to rebuild Overton Park golf course and renovate its Abe Goodman Clubhouse. 

    By Tom Bailey January 04, 2021

• December 2020

  • Opinion: The Overton Park golf course is about a lot more than golf

    For 114 years, longer than any other municipal golf course here, one golf course has introduced this city to the game, more than any other. Short and certainly sweet, first pars are found on this course, first birdies sing, and first eagles soar. And they come back for a lifetime.

    By Dan Conaway December 04, 2020

• November 2020

  • Opinion: Imagine, and be thankful

    People are called visionary after whatever seemingly crazy idea they’ve envisioned becomes reality against all odds. Otherwise, they’re just called crazy. And it’s just crazy how many visionaries this city has been blessed with.

    By Dan Conaway November 27, 2020

  • Conservancy seeks young ideas for old Overton Park

    Overton Park Conservancy is asking the public to complete by Nov. 30 a 21-question survey to help guide a new master plan for the park’s east side. The survey is found at www.overtonpark.org/zone1.

    By Tom Bailey November 25, 2020

  • Falling under the spell of autumn

    Soak up the beauty of a crisp autumn day through photos of Mid-South scenes including Overton Park in Midtown, Links at Galloway and Shelby Farms Park in East Memphis, and Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park in South Memphis.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 22, 2020

  • Metal Museum confident it can raise $13M more for Rust Hall work

    Museum’s leadership expresses confidence it can a meet a proposed city deadline: Within two years, add $13 million to the $12 million it has already raised to make Overton Park its new, expanded headquarters. 

    By Tom Bailey November 16, 2020

  • 100-year lease proposed for Metal Museum in Overton Park’s Rust Hall

    The Metal Museum has raised $12 million toward a $35 million goal to both renovate Rust Hall and create an endowment, states a resolution before the City Council.

    By Tom Bailey November 12, 2020

• October 2020

  • City playgrounds set to reopen Friday, Oct. 9

    Like at other city parks, Overton Park Conservancy is reopening its playgrounds on Friday, Oct. 9. The conservancy is also launching a weeklong campaign to raise donations that will be double-matched by International Paper.

    By Tom Bailey October 08, 2020

• August 2020

  • City pulls permit for new fleet maintenance shop

    The city applied for a building permit Aug. 5 for a $12 million fleet maintenance facility and fuel center at 3720 Knight Arnold Road in southeast Memphis.

    By Wayne Risher August 07, 2020

• July 2020

  • Metal Museum gets recommendation as Rust Hall’s next tenant

    Mayor Jim Strickland will consider the committee's recommendation that the Metal Museum be Rust Hall's future occupant. If he accepts it, the City Council would have final say.

    By Tom Bailey July 01, 2020

• May 2020

  • As art school winds down, what’s next for Rust Hall, Brooks buildings?

    The pandemic may be delaying the city's process for selecting the next users of Rust Hall and the Brooks Museum of Art building in Overton Park.

    By Tom Bailey May 08, 2020

• April 2020

  • Legacy Catalog will live online long after MCA closes

    The Memphis College of Art Legacy Catalog celebrates the school's 84-year history with lots of photographs and names.

    By Tom Bailey April 30, 2020

  • Keep your distance: Packing parks during pandemic not permitted

    Following restrictions set in place by Mayor Jim Strickland, public park-goers appear to be adhering to social distancing standards.

    By Jared Boyd April 05, 2020

• March 2020

  • Mayor threatens to close parks if restrictions ignored

    Abuses of social-distancing restrictions at city parks could force the city to close them.

    By Tom Bailey March 28, 2020