The Commercial Appeal du lieu suivant : Memphis, Tennessee • 74

W02 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS THURSDAY OCTOBER 3 199ft" I COLUMNISTS Exchange Square never lived up to name VTA1 Auditorium hotel etc occupied site When the original proprietors of Memphis drew the plan for the new town they laid out four public squares and named them for their projected uses: Auction Market Exchange' and Court Only Market Square ever lived up to its name Today only Court Square remains as an open space Auction Square was swallowed up by the approaches to the Hernando DeSoto Bridge Market Square is covered over with parking lots with a tiny vacant portion called Brinkley Park Exchange Square occupied a half block on Front between Poplar and Exchange streets The proprietors of Memphis envisaged a bustling com and cotton exchange at that location but it never materialized The site has held a hotel city hall a medical school offices a farmers market and since 1924 The Auditorium In the early 1840s Edwin Hickman and his cousin Benjamin Sappington leased land from the city and erected the Exchange Hotel which faced the river across Exchange Park Historian Paul Coppock says that hotel owners probably had little trouble arranging to get it for their business Hickman was mayor several times beginning in The most famous visitor to the hotel was John Calhoun who came for the Commercial Convention in November 1845 He spoke from the hotel balcony to a mass meeting in the park In 184 then-mayor Hickman struck a deal with William Atkinson Bickford to erect a large building on the site City government was pressed for From Msmphla Sketches William Atkinson Bickford was tha force behind construction of the Exchange Building between Poplar and Exchange In the 1840a The area was the center of the city before the Civil War north of town Chelsea for the Boston suburb of that name In 1869 he donated 3 acres between Fourth and Fifth streets between Bickford and Henry for a park and named it after his son Dr Henry Bickford Bickford lived at the southeast corner of Third and Washington Until his death in 1890 he was a familiar figure in his frock coat and top hat He was a member of the group that financed the Overton Hotel in 1859 in the same block as the Exchange at the northwest corner of Main and Poplar Exchange Build- which opened in 1846 with 30 students The faculty had used a church and a hospital for the first lectures The seven doctors on the faculty paid Bickford $10000 for three large rooms and five smaller ones: the mayor and aldermen signed a mortgage to raise the cash Dr Charles Todd Quintard who later studied for the ministry and became rector of Calvary Church and then Episcopal bishop of Tennessee was a member of the faculty The college closed in 1849 because of financial difficulties and opened again in 1852 at the the Exchange Building was taken over for use as a Federal hospital during the Civil War Despite the festivities centering on the visit of the Russian Grand Duke Alexis in 1870 the hotel had financial problems After a fire in the early 1870s the hotel was sold to Shelby County and remodeled as a county courthouse After a fire at the county courthouse in 1916 committees met and decided the block between Poplar and Main between Front and Exchange was the perfect location for a new auditorium and market house The huge new building was dedicated in 1924 Next Week: The Auditorium and Market House City Hospital on the site of Forrest Park In 1848 the Exchange Building was the center of the city The town of South Memphis and Memphis merged on Jan 1 1850 and business gradually moved south The Overton Hotel at Poplar and Main in the same block as coal oil dealer who also published city directories James Steele a prominent merchant and Woodruff and Oliver dealers in buggies Another tenant was the Memphis Medical College Caterpillars catch class curiosity 1 srmw HOWARD PuMMwdl MEMPHIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CALL US Newt for Neighbors 529-2573 FAX for Neighbors 529-2522 Photo for Neighbor! 529-2340 Neighbor Calendar 529-2334 Advertiaing 529-2471 Home delivery 529-2666 To order extra copies 529-2565 WRIT! US Neighbors The Commercial Appeal PO Box 334 Memphis Tsnn 38101 SOUTH REPORTERS John Semien 529-6514 FAX 396-3023 2600 Nonconnah BIvcL Suite 131 Memphis Tenn 38132 Ron Maxey 529-2544 FAX: 683-2554 4990 Poplar Suite 419 Memphis Tenn 38117 WHITEHAVEN OAKHAVEN ZIP CODES: 38116 38118 38131 CORRECTIONS A AMPLIFICATIONS Neighbors tries to correct promptly any error in fact or clarify any misleading information ap-' pearing in news articles To report any error or need for clarification please call 529-2490 Lichterman will receive grant at fair from Gros By Ron Maxey The Commercial AppeM Peter Gros co-host of Mutual of Wild Kingdom on television will award a grant to lichterman Nature Center during this Pink Palace Crafts Fair The 24th annual crafts fair a fund-raiser for the Memphis Museum System runs today through Sunday in Audubon Park Hours are 10 am-6 pm each day except Friday when gates are open until 9 pm The fair site is east of the Audubon lake Ticket prices are $3 for children and adults 65 or older $5 for other adults and $8 for a two-day pass Lichterman one of the museum system attractions benefiting from the fair will receive Mutual of Wildlife Heritage Center Grant of Excellence for an outreach program that takes wildlife education into school classrooms and healthcare facilities The program serves primarily inner-city children The $2000 grant will be used for printed support materials Lichterman curator Larry Pi- ckens and museum system director Doug Noble will receive the grant from Gros at 2 pm Saturday on the main stage The Wildlife Heritage Center was established in 1992 to carry on the legacy of the long-running Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom television program The Wildlife Heritage Center each year awards cash grants al ires zations involved with wildlife preservation One of 10 wildlife and conservation organizations to receive the grant for 1996 Lichterman is a recipient for the first time Pickens said the source of the grant is more significant than the amount 'After the grant presentation Gros at 3 pm will present a rogram on the itage using animals from the Nature Center and on loan from the Memphis Zoo Gros also will relate stories and experiences from his years on Wild Kingdom on which he has been co-host since 1985 Also benefiting from the fair will be Memphis Pink Palace Museum Mallory-Neely House Magevney House and Coon Creek Science Center in McNairy County Tenn The fair is staged by Friends of the Pink Palace Fall festival set at Kirby Pines Kirby Pines Retirement Community will have its annual fall celebration Oct 22 The Harvest Hoot Holler Cookout will feature a cake and pie auction carnival booths a cake prize walk clowns live music doggers and a costume contest The event will be 11 am-2 pm at Kirby Pines 3535 Kirby Road li i HP" ml J5- 'If -Vi v'- jf'V -j PERRE MAGNESS Past Times space and Bickford promised offices and an assembly hall for the city He received a 99-year lease and $10000 in city bonds were issued Later there were complaints about leasing public land for private gain out at the time the city thought getting a new city hall was a good thing An 1850 city directory said "It was not until 184 that there was any attention paid to the erection of a public edifice In that year Mr Bickford one of our most enterprising citizens being aided by the City Council recommended the erection of the large and beautiful building on Front Row extending from Poplar to Exchange streets known as the Exchange Building 106 by 52 feet besides several smaller though spacious halls for other Eiublic purposes such as hold-ng of courts a Medical Hall Council Chamber and Bickford was born in New Hampshire in 1808 He taught school there then made nis way to New Orleans in 1832 He made money by inventing a new part for the cotton gin A riverboat captain told him that Memphis would be a good place to invest it He was 26 years old when he opened an office downtown for nis enter- -prises He became a contractor and supplied building materials for the Navy Yard He was a real estate developer and named a suburb JUDYTOLOSA Class Notes that in their herb garden Eventually one by one the butterflies emerged from their chrysalises and flew away but the learning stop there Since every one of them flew off in the same direction southwest there is still research to be done to find out where they will go to from here Art for life More than 60 elementary and middle school students participating in an after-school program are strengthening their self-esteem while developing artistic talents and an appreciation for art and culture In its fifth year Selecting Art for Life's Sake: A Cultural Alternative to Drug Use and Violence (Art ana Culture) is based at Brookmeade Elementary in Frayser Although the program is open to any interested area students most participants are from Brookmeade and Sharpe Elementary Students from Wooddale Middle Sherwood Middle Colonial Middle Germantown Elementary Farmington Elementary and Harding Academy also participate Participants concentrate their efforts in one of two VIRGINIA MCGUIRE Practical Pointers will turn them inside out when washing DO YOUR NECK chains get knotted up in your drawer or jewelry box? They if you slip each one through a drinking straw and press each end of the straw down GOT A BUNCH of keys you carry around? Put a dab of different colors of paint or nail polish on top of the two or three you use the most This keeps you from having to search through the bunch each time you need one areas: music or dance and drama Music students learn to play strings instruments such as violin or cello Others learn movement routines stage presence and playwrighting and do multicultural activities They also role-play significant social issues such as drug and alcohol abuse The boost in self-esteem comes from the satisfaction of gaining knowledge learning skills and becoming proficient and performing before audiences Program participants perform at area events such as Africa in April and the Mem phis in May International Festival They also entertain residents at places such as John Madison Exum Towers Rosewood Manor Health Care Center Saint Francis Nursing Home and students at area schools The teachers are Ptotla Furlow Eileen Mac-Naughton Sonny Ekpo Butch Mudbone Kepe Abioto Carol Lin Hattie Isen and Veijean McCracklin Isen also serves as the director The free program is jointly funded by Memphis City Schools the Memphis Arts Council and Target Stores Strings students must furnish their own instruments i Making an impact Many people look back on their nigh school years with mixed reelings some good some bad ana some truly significant Teacher Roger Brunson of Craigmont MiddleHigh School in the Raleigh Ridge neighborhood thinks a group of freshmen will remember eighth grade as significant the Science teacher Jane Hobson and her students at Macon Elementary School in the Berclair neighborhood got the new school year off to a flying start by solving a mystery that materialized shortly after classes began The mystery was the identity of more than a dozen uninvited fuzzy visitors caterpillars that suddenly appeared in the herb garden Hobson said the caterpillars looked like but did not act like the hainr larvae of monarch butterflies Monarchs are pretty picky eaters they only like milkweed These caterpillars seemed determined to devour every last anise leaf in the garden The students treated the situation like a science project and employed scientific methods of inquiry they regularly use in classes They did not want to just sit back and wait to see what hatched and unfolded from the eventual chrysalis they wanted to solve the mystery They did research in the library and perused the Internet They took measurements observed and recorded details and data and charted growth time spans and food consumption They even bartered for more information by trading a caterpillar and a supply or food for the use of a resource book on butterflies from Berclair Elementary School teacher Elizabeth Poole Good thing they knew they had spice bush swallowtails before the supply of anise leaves ran out Through their research they learned this particular insect also eats parsley They also had a ready supply of Ferre Magness is a Memphis freelance miter Source: Paul Coppock Mtmphla Skrtchm (1978) and Paul Coppock1! Mkt-South (IMS) FNee In the Mawphla Room of In pubic Library and information Cantor ANN MEEKS Streetscapes Portion of 1-55 honors late COGIC bishop On March 15 1995 the portion of Interstate 55 in Memphis between the Mississippi state line and Interstate 240 was named the Patterson Sr Memorial Parkway by the Tennessee State Senate honoring the late leader of the Church of God in Christ Patterson who died in 1989 at the age of 77 guided the 37 million-member denomination for more than 20 years as its presiding bishop James Oglethorpe Patterson was bom in 1912 in Derma Miss In 1934 he married Deborah Indiana Masoic daughter of Mason who founded COGIC in 1907 and led the denomination until his death in 1961 In 1968 Patterson was elected presiding bishop of the Memphis-based church the largest black Pentecostal denomination in the country He was also pastor of Pentecostal Temple Institutional Church of Gbd in Christ at 229 Danny Thomas for 47 years and he founded Patterson Mortuary under his leadership COGIC organized Bible colleges a seminary mission schools a publishing house and an education foundation Patterson was a member of the Black Leadership Council and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Black Leaders in America by Ebony magazine More than 5000 COGIC members attended Patterson's funeral service which was termed a Church ana civic leaders praised his many contributions and Mayor Dick Hackett dered that flags at all city facilities be flown at half-staff year they learned firsthand how citizens working together can make a difference in their community Craigmont is one of several dozen schools in the Memphis City Schools system implementing comprehensive new school designs from the program called New American Schools design The Audrey Cohen College System of Education places emphasis on purposefiil learning Throughout the year stu- dents at all grade levels work on projects and problems that help them relate the knowledge they learn in the classroom to what is happening in society English students worked together to solve a problem in their community A vacant house in their neighborhood had become a dangerous eyesore The gaping doors and windows permitted animals and unsavory characters ready entry and use The overgrown and weed-filled yard was strewn with garbage The students wrote letters to government officials to voice their concerns about the property They took pictures and reduced videos to illustrate ow unsafe and unsightly the situation was Then they waited The situation remained the same when they left for summer vacation Upon their return to school they were jubilant City workers had boarded up the windows and doors The yard was cut and free of garbage Instead of a dangerous eyesore the house stands as a reminder that students can make things happen To submit information for Class Notes call 529-2850 encouraged to come in non-scary costumes is being promoted as a place for parents to bring their children as an altema- tive to said Harrell the church is concerned with Halloween itself: its origins and who it he said celebrating The seminar Exactly What Is is set for 6:30 pm Oct 30 a Wednesday at the church is not necessarily ramming it down your throat that Halloween is evil although I like said Harrell to present the information and let people decide for More information can be obtained by calling the church at 274-3766 Phone tip another reason to read die fine print Church to host harvest festival ONE DAY I put the receiver to my cordless phone back into its and the red charging light come on I thought my phone was broken until I read a note on my phone cradle It said "Gently clean metal battery charge contacts monthly with a pencil The charge contacts are two little metal pieces at the end of your phone cradle and at the end of your receiver I ran an eraser over the little metal pieces placed the phone back into the cradle and my red charging light was blazing again PARENTS if you have children who want to write letters or thank-you notes try this: Buy them a box of personalized stationery You will be surprised how stationery with their names on it will motivate them to write YOU HATE for your sweaters and sweatshirts to when you wash them? It will really help if you By Wayne Rishcr Tb Commercial Appeal McLean Baptist Church will present a harvest carnival Oct 26 as an alternative to Halloween and a seminar Oct 30 to explore what some believe is the sinister side Both events are free and open to -the public said Forrest Harrell a church member and organizer of the events McLean Baptist is at 815 McLean in the Vollin-tine-Evergreen community The HallowHimHarvest Carnival is scheduled to run 2-5 pm Oct 26 a Saturday in the church parking lot It will feature food 'booths ganlbs and activities such as a dunk tank Harrell said children are Quota club set -to celebrate Quota International ofi Raleigh-Bartlett is celebrating? its 30th anniversary tonight gt the Colonial Country Club at The club serves the and speech-impaired and abused and abandoned women! and their children It recently' adopted a sister club in New Delhi India For more informal tion about dinnery contact Irma Peterson at 386 5497 i.