BGuthrie Photos: TN -- Memphis -- Mud Island

TN -- Memphis -- Mud Island:

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Description of Pictures: The island doesn't open until April so these are just pictures of the monorail from the city side.

Same Event: Wait! There's more! Because I took too many pictures, photos from this event were divided among the following pages: [Display ALL photos on one page]:

2013_TN_CWT_Parks_130303: CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2013) in Memphis, TN -- Tour of city parks (101 photos from 2013)
2013_TN_Memphis: TN -- Memphis (12 photos from 2013)
2013_TN_Court_Sq: TN -- Memphis -- Court Square (17 photos from 2013)
2013_TN_Forrest_Park: TN -- Memphis -- Forrest Park (27 photos from 2013)
2013_TN_Ft_Pickering: TN -- Memphis -- Fort Pickering (5 photos from 2013)
2013_TN_Mud_Island: TN -- Memphis -- Mud Island (9 photos from 2013)
2013_TN_Natl_Ornamental: TN -- Memphis -- National Ornamental Metal Museum (8 photos from 2013)
2013_TN_Memphis_Riverwalk: TN -- Memphis -- Riverwalk (25 photos from 2013)

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Wikipedia Description: Mud Island, Memphis
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Mud Island (not actually an island) is a small peninsula, surrounded by the Mississippi River to the west and the Wolf River Harbor to the east. In 1960, the Wolf River was diverted so that it flows into the Mississippi River north of Mud Island, and Mud Island opened to the public in 1982. It is located within the Memphis city limits, 1.2 miles from the coast of downtown, and houses a museum, restaurants, and an amphitheater. It is accessible by the Memphis Suspension Railway (a monorail), by foot (via a footbridge located on top of the monorail), by ferry, or automobile.

Mississippi River Park and Museum:

The Mississippi River park located on Mud Island includes bike trails, pedal boats, and rafts, as well as a hydraulic scale model of the lower Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans.

Major cities and small towns located on the river are marked in the scale model, and markers explain history and facts about the river.

The model empties into a "Gulf of Mexico" replica which was once a waterpark named Bud Boogie Beach, and on the other side is a small wooden boat named the Maymay which is no longer open to the public. Admission to the park is free.

Mississippi River Museum:

The museum on Mud Island presents the history of the lower Mississippi river valley, with great emphasis on the steamboat, complete with a full-scale replica steamboat.

An admission fee is charged for the museum.

Amphitheater:

Mud Island is home to a 5,000 seat outdoor amphitheater which has been used for a summer concert series for over two decades.

The band Dash Rip Rock, which has played there several times, recorded a song named Mud Island that can be found on two of their albums.

James Taylor, performing in the amphitheater during a light rainstorm in 1992, stuck his arm out into the falling water and remarked, "Mud Island... ominous name, eh?"

Harbor Town:

The northern portion ...More...
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2013 photos: Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Memphis, TN, Jackson, MS [to which I added a week to to visit sites in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee], and Richmond, VA), and my 8th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Nevada and California). Ego Strokes: Aviva Kempner used my photo of her as her author photo in Larry Ruttman's "American Jews & America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball" book. Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600. Number of photos taken this year: just over 570,000.
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