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NEA Grant Helps Finish History Center Walking down the Trail of Tears water steps by the Aquarium or through one of the Civil War battlegrounds atop Lookout Mountain will tell you that Chattanooga is rich in history. “Chattanooga is a great place to work because history is already there.” said Dr. Daryl Black, executive director of the Chattanooga History Center. But Chattanooga’s history also includes stories that aren’t mentioned in classroom textbooks. These untold stories are memories of the people who made Chattanooga the city it is today. Wanting to create an exhibit that focuses on history and community memories,
the Chattanooga History Center created a campaign to build a 19,500 square-foot social history museum in the Aquarium Plaza. Helping to complete this dream is a $400,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities the center recently received. The funding will be used to finish the interactive exhibits, in which community memories start a conversation with visitors about where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we want to go. Visitors can listen to oral history soundscapes of Chattanoogans and see a 75-minute film narrated by Chattanooga native Samuel L. Jackson featuring interviews
IN THIS ISSUE
David Hedrick This week’s cover story is by David Hedrick, the Lead Ectotherm Keeper at the Chattanooga Zoo. David also serves as the Hellbender Working Group Coordinator for Southeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. He has worked
from Chattanoogans telling parts of the city’s history. The exhibit also contains six galleries, starting with the Trail of Tears, the inception of railroads, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the start of industrial development, the creation of TVA, the World Wars, the urban experience, the Civil Rights Movement, and Vision 2000. At the end, the exhibit challenges visitors to become engaged with their community by asking themselves what they can do to improve it. The Chattanooga History Center is scheduled to open at the beginning of 2015. — Madeline Chambliss
Tony Mraz in the zoo field for 14 years, and caught his first Hellbender about 30 years ago. David also manages social media for CaribPARC, the SEPARC Hellbender Working Group, and the International Iguana Foundation. A graduate of Ooltewah High School and Chattanooga State, he lives in the Brainerd area in an early-20th century restored bungalow with his wife and two children.
One of our newest contributors to The Pulse, Tony Mraz, is a local artist, musician, and writer. He grew up in Dalton, Georgia before moving to Chattanooga to attend high school at the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences. After his
time at the Kansas City Art Institute, he lived in Kansas City, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans and Northern California. In his career as an artist he has produced thousands of paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, murals, and works of digital art. He has written over 50 songs and is currently writing a novel. He now lives and works at his studio in Red Bank.
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