Baptist gives Discovery Park a boost
Union City – Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City (BMH-UC) has become a Founding Circle sponsor at Discovery Park of America.
BMH-UC will be the name sponsor for a cabin in the historic farm area that will feature buildings and exhibits representing life in rural communities in the mid-1800’s.
Published in The WCP 8.23.12 Read More ...
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UTM, Discovery Park partnership celebrated with new endowment
The University of Ten-nessee at Martin recently received $300,000 from the Kathleen Elam Endowment that will be used to establish the Elam/Discovery Park Quasi-Endowment.
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DISCOVERY PARK
Photo - The natural history gallery at Discovery Park of America will feature life-size replicas of prehistoric fossils, including an Apatosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Read More ...
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Vision takes shape at Discovery Park of America
By GLENDA CAUDLE
Special Features Editor
When art and science can be induced to blend, something wonderful happens. Read More ...
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Discovery Park plans on track for 2012 opening
By GLENDA CAUDLE
Special Features Editor
The goal: smiling faces.
Discovery Park of America’s director of marketing and communications Larry Snider of Martin shared the vision of the Kirkland Foundation for its multi-million dollar project Thursday evening and was rewarded with a room full of just the reaction the projects’ planners are looking for. Read More ...
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Excitement taking off for Discovery exhibit
By GLENDA CAUDLE
Special Features Editor
Excitement will be “sky high” Tuesday at Everett-Stewart Regional Airport just east of Union City. That’s when the public can “discover” the architect’s final plans for Discovery Park of America’s centerpiece building, Discovery Center, and get an up-close and truly personal look at one of the chief exhibits — a Stearman plane like the ones in use at the airport when it was known locally as Embry-Riddle Field and was a World War II pilot training school. Read More ...
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Exhibit designer: Imagination key for DPA adventure
By GLENDA CAUDLE
Special Features Editor
It expands. It contracts.
It rips the boundaries of the quantitative know-able. It wraps warmly the qualitative human experience. Read More ...
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Hennes looks for the unique
You might want to work for Tom Hennes, or someone like him. You might want to establish your own exhibit design enterprise. Read More ...
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Discovery Park leaders pleased with new design
By GLENDA CAUDLE
Special Features Editor
“Excellent!” Jim Rippy said of the presentation made by Discovery Park of America architects and exhibit and landscape designers Wednesday at the Obion County Public Library. Read More ...
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Community commitment for DPA impressive to visiting architects
By GLENDA CAUDLE
Special Features Editor
If you’re expecting to see some interesting stuff, forget that. Instead, be prepared to feast each human sense.
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DPA progressing, meetings slated
By GLENDA CAUDLE
Special Features Editor
Union Citian Robert Kirkland will soon see things moving again on the grounds where Discovery Park of America is going to be built.
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Discovery Park work to resume
The Kirkland Foundation has selected a new architect and is in process of negotiating a contract to resume work on Discovery Park of America by mid-January. Read More ...
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Discovery Park of America founders turn to homegrown talent to fulfill dream
By GLENDA H. CAUDLE
Special Features Editor
Homegrown.
That’s been important to Robert and Jenny Kirkland from the beginning.
When their dream of an educational and entertainment complex that would attract attention across the nation — and even beyond its borders — was formally announced almost two years ago as Discovery Park of America, they stressed their desire for local involvement in making their vision a reality.
Published in The Messenger 9.17.09 Read More ...
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Discovery Park of America hire architect for grounds
DIGGING IN AT DPA — Robert Kirkland (left) and Greg Hnedak look over preliminary drawings on display at Monday’s local planning session with Discovery Park of America volunteers who will be working with the project’s botanical garden and Yesteryear Village components of the project. Read More ...
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On July 8, 2009, the Kirkland Foundation announced the termination of its contract with Douglas Cardinal Architects for the design of the 50-acre, mul
On July 8, 2009, the Kirkland Foundation announced the termination of its contract with Douglas Cardinal Architects for the design of the 50-acre, multi-million dollar Discovery Park of America. Read More ...
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