Big Black Creek Historical Association
Big Black Creek Historical Association
P.O. Box 50
Denmark, TN 38391
United States
The Smithsonian Museum's traveling exhibit in Mercer, TN.
"Journey stories – tales of how we and our ancestors came to America – are a central element of our personal heritage. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell. Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything – families and possessions – to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean. The reasons behind those decisions are myriad. Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often pushed aside by newcomers."
The "Journey Stories" Sunday February 27 opening at The Pennington Building in Mercer, TN.
WBBJ TV 7 interviewing Bobby Johnson in the exhibit hall.
The entrance to "Journey Stories."
These are recreations of old time "Pew Dolls." These were given to children to take to church services to eliminate noise made by their regular doll's wooden or porcelain heads banging against the wooden church pews disrupting services. 
Gift Shop and social center across from the exhibit building.
The first school to visit the exhibit was West Middle School
April 3, 2011 2:00 P.M.
was the final day for the Smithsonian Museum's traveling exhibit "Journey Stories." Bill King, President of the BBCHA stated that the next project is to bring the Summer Olympics to Hatchie Bottom !
The combined choirs of the churches in our community sang for a standing room only crowd on Sunday April 3
Thanks to all who visited and to the BBCHA members who invested so many hours to make the event so sucessful.
Big Black Creek Historical Association
P.O. Box 50
Denmark, TN 38391
United States
