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"AT ORCHARD MALL, YOU'LL FIND
EVERYTHING ON YOUR GIFT-GIVING LIST"

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BARBARA'S ART CENTER — EUROPA ART GALLERY — HESLOP'S CHINA & GIFTS
ILONA AND GALLERY — KITCHEN GLAMOR — ACCENTS IN NEEDLEPOINT
SOLEIL CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE — WRAP IT UP

SERVICE

ALTERATIONS & MORE — GEMINI TRAVEL
LOIS GROSS DRY CLEANERS — STAR TRAX — WEST BLOOMFIELD LIBRARY

FINE JEWELRY

TAPPER'S DIAMONDS & FINE JEWELRY

FASHION

BETSY'S BRIDAL COUTURE — THE COVER UP — GREG SHOES — GUYS N' GALS
ROCHELLE IMBER'S KNIT KNIT KNIT — ROSALIE — SALLY'S DESIGN BOUTIQUE
SHERRI'S — WEST BLOOMFIELD — THE STUDIO — UNDER IT ALL

FOOD/DRUGS

bloodiest battle, Vicksburg; and the
National Civil Rights Museum, which
opened in 1991 adjacent to the old
Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin
Luther King was shot.
Designed by Robert Mills, famous
for the Washington Monument, U. S.
Treasury Building and part of the
White House, Hunt-Phelan, with its
grand Ionic columns, is thought to be
the only house where both Grant and
Confederate President Jefferson Davis
stayed — on different occasions, of
course. Prior to its recent restoration
and debut as a public attraction, it
had been in the same family for more
than a century and a half.
Visitors, greeted by costumed
docents, hear audio-tour tales of gala
balls, yellow fever epidemics, family
heroics, duels and intrigue. During
the Union occupation, Grant corn-
mandeered the library as his head-
quarters and made troops remove
their boots before tromping across its
inlaid parquet floor, still lovely after
all these years. Following the war, the
mansion became the site of one of the
first schoolhouses for freed African-
American slaves.
Not far away, the National Civil
Rights Museum traces the historic
struggle for equality from slavery to
modern times, including the role Dr.
Henry Moskowitz played in helping
plant the seeds of the NAACP follow-
ing the 1908 race riots in Springfield,
Ill., and Detroiter Viola Liuzzo's mur-
der as a Freedom Rider.
Visitors feel the tension of the civil
rights era through authentic audio
clips, such as the voice of President
John F. Kennedy during the James
Meredith-inspired Battle for Ole
Miss, and video footage of such inci-
dents as the water hoses and attack
dogs Police Commissioner "Bull"
Connor used against marchers in
Birmingham, Ala.

The movement is dramatized by
the statues of striking black Memphis
sanitation workers, carrying signs
declaring "I am a Man," and a re-cre-
anon of black student protestors sit-
ting-in at a whites-only lunch
counter. At one point, visitors file
through a bus, past a sculpture of
Rosa Parks, to the sounds of a click-
ing billy club and the driver's barked
orders to "Please move to the back of
the bus."
But nothing is as moving as the
sight, at tour's end, of Rooms 306
and 307 at the Lorraine Motel.
Preserved behind a Plexiglas wall,
they show an unmade bed and dirty
dishes on a room service tray, just as
Dr. King and his lieutenants left
them before stepping onto the bal-
cony that fateful evening of April 4,

1968.

Overcome by emotion, some visi-
tors leave the museum in tears.

DUCK IN FOR FUN

Continuing a tradition that began
in the 1930's, the Peabody Hotel's
famous Marching Ducks promenade
to and from the lobby's marble foun-
tain twice daily, at 11 a.m. and 5
p.m., to the music of John Philip
Sousa and the blinding flash of cam-
eras from throngs of spectators.
A short stroll away, Memphis' most
famous barbecue haunt, Rendezvous,
beckons. In east Memphis, Corky's
serves up barbecue beef brisket and
lip-smacking dry ribs, spice-rubbed
rather than sauced — beef as well as
the city's trademark pork. More than
100 other barbecue joints wait to be
tried.
After chowing down on hot food,
most Memphis evenings end with
cool blues back on Beale Street, where
everyone — from B.B. King to such
locals as Prof. Stephen Wachtel
cuts loose. Ili

EFROS DRUGS — SHOPPING CENTER MARKET

FURRIER

BRICKER-TUNIS FURS

BEAUTY

DERMA VOGUE — MOP SHOP SALON — PAPILLON SALON — PEARL OF PARIS SALON

DINING

CHEESE CAKE CAFÉ PANERA BREAD — SHANGRI-LA CHINESE RESTAURANT
OPEN SOON — LA SHISH RESTAURANT

Personal Service — Hassle-free Shopping — Convenient Parking

11/20

1998

West Bloomfield's Only Enclosed Center •Celebrating 25' Years - 248-851-7727

G26 Detroit Jewish News

Travel Information

For travel information, contact the Tennessee State Welcome Center;
119 N Riverside Drive, Memphis, TN 38103; call 800-8-MEMPHIS;
or visit www.memphistravel.com on the Internet. For Gracethnd reservations,
call 800-238-2000 or visit wwwelvis-presley.com. Reach Sun Studio at
800-441-6249 or www.sunstudio.com ; the National Civil Rights Museum
at 901-521-9699 or www.mecca.org/-crights/ncrin.btrn1 and the Peabody Hotel
at 901-529-3600 or www.peabodymemphis.com