A new director takes science-history museum ‘back to our roots’
Kevin Thompson took over as director of the Pnk Palace Museum in January. He was photographed April 6, 2020, outside the mansion built by Piggly Wiggly founder Clarence Saunders (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Within a week of the city order to close because of the coronavirus, lesson-hungry homebound families were able to access Museum To Go, a sampler of Pink Palace artifacts, activities and movies. Kevin Thompson mobilized his gloved-and-masked education team to make museum content available in record time.
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Jill Johnson Piper
Jill Johnson Piper is a second generation newspaper writer with roots in Memphis and Arkansas. She earned a B.A. in English from Rhodes College. Her work appears in Rhodes Today and Memphis magazine, as well as The Daily Memphian.
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