Front of Graceland, Memphis TN
Living room
TV room in basement
Kit
Pool room basement
"Jungle room"/makeshift recording room
1957 Gold lame "Ed Sullivan" suit
68 comeback special leather suit
Racquetball room, now w exhibits
Aloha suits
Grave site
History quiz: Memphis, 1968.
The actual spot
Wider angle
Museum includes across-the-street preservation of boarding house bathroom from which Ray fired his rifle.
Hornet's Nest, Shiloh TN
Infamous Sunken Road where Union forces hold off Johnston's troops on 4/6/62, setting up Grant's big win (with Buell's just-arrived forces) on 7 April.
The Bloody Pond at which wounded soldiers sought refuge.
Sunken Road, looking north from the Bloody Pond.
More Americans die at Shiloh than died cumulatively during the wars of Independence, 1812 and Mexico.
MN artillery monument
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"Hornets Nest" Center of Union Line.
One of the hinges of history, now a quiet spot in the woods.
It gives me a chill to see it.
God bless America.
And Elvis's nutty costumes. The freedom to live large and do things no one ever thought of before and come from a shack and get yourself a big old house.
God bless America for all that, too.
Posted by Lexington Green | July 3, 2009 11:58 AM
It is obvious that Tom is just a hunka, hunka burning love -
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Thank you very much.
Tom has left the building.
Posted by George | July 3, 2009 1:18 PM
It was an inspiring journey all around, especially the Civil Rights Museum. So much change in 40 years.
I am living in the best of times.
Posted by Tom Barnett | July 3, 2009 3:03 PM
Have you found the good BBQ yet? If not, look at the smaller places frequented by the locals.
Posted by Michael
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July 4, 2009 1:22 AM
BBQ ribs is Rendezvous.
BBQ chicken is Gus's. Both downtown not far from Mud Island terminal.
Posted by Tom Barnett | July 4, 2009 12:41 PM