Earlier this month, area children gathered at Shelby Farms to break ground on the Woodland Discovery Playground.  As Deputy Director Laura Adams explains in the video, the playground is the culmination of worldwide research and will bring children closer to nature while giving them a chance to exercise.  Here’s to another jewel in an emerging [...]

On Thursday, ground was broken on the western segment of the Shelby Farms Greenline.  The biking, running, walking, and jogging trail will run from Shelby Farms to Midtown by the time it opens this summer.   This is  a huge stride for Memphis, and I can’t wait to bike this greenline myself as soon as [...]

It was great to attend the public input forums on Memphis’ new greenline to be built along the old CSX right-of-way to be opened in the next year.   Hearing from nationally-renowned greenway experts and local greening and county officals about making this project a reality elated me.  Seeing the photos and slides I could envision myself [...]

Hey, Looking for something to do this weekend?  How ’bout a bit of top-notch music in Midtown!  The Rhodes College MasterSingers Chorale will be giving a trilingual con-cert,  accompanied by members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, in the acoustically renowned Idlewild Presbyterian Church.  James Feddeck, Assistant Conductor of the MSO, will wield the baton as fifty [...]

It was great to be out at Shelby Farms this morning as Mayor Wharton planted the first of the million new trees going in at the park.  That’s enough for each person in the county to have their own tree–and then some!  With all the other ways they could have been spending their time, it was [...]

The suburb of Germantown has been named Tree City USA for 13 consecutive years by the Arbor Day Foundation.

Last night my choir was working on Bach’s “Nun danket alle Gott,” and I noticed the bass next to me wasn’t struggling at all with the German text.  “Where did you learn your German?” I had to ask. “I’m a native.”  It turns out he’s from Berlin but works here now. I had no idea! I thoght, How [...]

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