Tom Lee Centennial concludes with pop-up museum in Klondike
Klondike Smokey City Community Development Corp. celebrated 100th anniversary of Tom Lee's river rescue with a pop-up museum Saturday, May 10 at 1396 Jackson Ave. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The museum on the larger history of the Klondike area is in an old bank building on Jackson Avenue, about a block from the house where Tom Lee lived the last 27 years of his life.
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