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 was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
At an upcoming event, unwanted guns will be turned into something that plants new seeds and instills new hope.
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