10-29-18

Given recent events and my perception of the national climate, maybe our visit to the National Civil Rights Museum was unfortunately timed.  The museum is located in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

It is very well done.  The first room was dedicated to his life and contributions and celebrated this year's 50th anniversary of his death.  After that, it was a detailed representation of the struggles of black people in this country, beginning with the slave ships.

This art is a depiction of the African-Americans being led to the mountain top.

In the second room, two women, one black and one white and Jewish were holding each other and sobbing.  They kept saying that nothing had changed. It was very difficult to see.

The history unfolded room by room.

I felt profoundly depressed after visiting the museum.  I wanted to feel a sense of hope for the future but I didn't.

Later we drove by Graceland.  We had already decided not to do a tour at $40 per person as neither of us had ever been Elvis fans.  From the road you could not see a thing, so we continued to lunch and back to the trailer to tend to the pups.

Later, we heard people hurrying to the river so we went out to see what was happening.  The American Queen was sailing by.

The smokestacks are lying horizontal on the top, I guess so they can pass under the bridges.

Art piece of the day: