City’s history, bicentennial review draws crowd to library

By , Daily Memphian Published: January 27, 2019 6:29 PM CT

The start of a Memphis Public Libraries lecture series on the city's bicentennial draws a standing-room-only crowd, while the Memphis Pink Palace museum prepares for a March opening of its own bicentennial exhibit.

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Memphis Bicentennial Memphis Public Libraries Nur Abdalla Pink Palace Scott Lillard

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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