ISSUE 3

VOLUME 1

JULY - SEPTEMBER 2006

 See Memphis

individual • group • regional
tours

When you come to Memphis, let See Memphis
take you places where history was made!

featuring The Woodruff-Fontaine House

Memphis has its share of ghost stories – creaking stairs, voices from nowhere and beings felt, but not seen. October is the perfect time to re-visit the unseen spirits and listen to their stories. Some ghosts you might encounter are:

  • Molly Woodruff, who occasionally makes her presence known at the Woodruff-Fontaine House
  • Mary, who still returns to the Orpheum to see the stars
  • Nathan Wilson, who died shortly after burying a chest of gold and before disclosing its whereabouts.

You’ll also hear about the ghost of Brinkley Female College and learn about the mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. You may even drive by Elmwood Cemetery, home of some beautiful Victorian tombstone art as well as four “gentleman ghosts.”

Those with additional time may want to spend a day or two in nearby Adams, where Tennessee’s most famous ghost taunted the Bell Family for years. That story is told in the recent film “An American Haunting.”

Call Mimmye or Myna today for reservations on this essential Memphis tour. 1-800-235-7311.

meet your tour guide: shelby childs

Shelby grew up in Memphis close to the First Assembly of God Church where both Elvis and the Blackwood Brothers worshipped. She remembers riding the streetcar and watching the iceman deliver ice in a horse-drawn wagon. She remembers one night at Rainbow Skating Rink when she refused to skate with a boy from Humes High because his hair was slicked back and he wore a leather jacket. Guess who that was! Even though she wouldn’t skate with him, Elvis later dated two of her friends. On a more serious note, she remembers Memphis on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and how that changed Memphis forever. Shelby is the quintessential southern belle with a sense of humor – she’ll charm your socks off!

“Somebody asked me what I missed most about Memphis and I said ‘EVERYTHING’.”

Elvis Presley

Memphis
Tid-Bits

Tasty morsels of Southern trivia

Thousands of Elvis fans carried lighted candles past his gravesite at the 29th anniversary of his death on August 16th. Memphis hotels are already filling for the 30th anniversary in 2007.

Memphis is the home of two major religious denominations – the Church of God in Christ and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

Memphis is a 7-time winner of the “Cleanest City in America” award.

SEE
MEMPHIS
recommends

PANDAS AT THE MEMPHIS ZOO
2000 Prentiss Place
Daily 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

THE MOUSETRAP
Playhouse on the Square
September 29 – October 22

HIP-HOP IMMORTALS
STAX Museum
September 8 – October 31
See Memphis
 

See Memphis, Inc.

378 South Main Street
Suite 3
Memphis, TN 38103

901-525-4617       1-800-235-7311

Visit our website at http://www.seememphisinc.com.