Conaway: Guns to Gardens — Despair to hope, death to life
Evergreen Presbyterian Church will host Guns to Gardens, a one-day safe surrender event where unwanted guns will be dismantled to be transformed into garden tools. Sections of a rifle barrel, right, sit next to blacksmithing tools on a table at a 2022 Guns to Gardens event at a church in Denver. (Thomas Peipert/AP Photo file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
At an upcoming event, unwanted guns will be turned into something that plants new seeds and instills new hope.
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