Snowy Day at Moran Place 1897 & 1979

 Moran Place 1979 and 1897

Moran Place in 1979.  View from down the street.

 Moran Place in 1979.  View from the driveway entrance.

 Moran Place ca 1897.  View from near the carriage entrance.  

Stereo Images by Ebenezer Elijah Henry, 1870

Though not in the best condition these pictures were found in the trunk of Sophia Gunn Moran located in the attic at Moran Place.  The pictures are dated June and July 1870.  The photographer was Ebenezer Elijah Henry of Leavenworth Kansas.  These photo's prove the stories that say the Gunn family was in Leavenworth for a brief time.  One of the photo's shows a line through Leavenworth and is penned Independence Missouri.

Happy Holidays from Ned Ray McWherter

Ned Ray McWherter was the Governor of Tennessee from 1987 - 1995.   He lived in Dresden and Kent has some funny stories and good memories to tell about Ned Ray, who owned the local beer distributorship.  The closest I ever got to Ned Ray McWherter was the library at the University of Memphis which was named for him.  I worked there from it's opening in 1994 till I moved on to Business and Finance in 1997.  Ria Moran saved holiday card and since it's the Christmas season I decided to post it in remembrance of Governor McWherter.  A son of Weakley County Tennessee.

Governor McWherter was born October 15, 1930 and died April 4, 2011.   He is interred at Sunset Cemetery in Dresden.