Souvenir vendor sees more than business in quest to honor city’s founding
Don Hassell, a member of the West Tennessee Historical Society, has been on a mission to get Memphis to recognize a Founders Day. “I sell Memphis souvenirs and gifts. I got interested in the founding of this city because of what I do,” he says. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Don Hassell says Memphians should wear their civic pride on May 22, the day the city's first land was purchased.
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