The home where Alex Haley spent his boyhood summers was officially opened today as a museum, and interpretive center. Haley is buried on the grounds of the Henning, Tennessee home.
Author Alex Haley, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Roots: The Saga of an American Family sparked a surge of interest in genealogy in the
1970s, is the subject of a new museum opening today.
The Alex Haley House Museum and Interpretive Center is in tiny Henning, Tenn., 45 minutes north of Memphis, and includes the 10-room bungalow that was home to his grandparents, along with a new $1.2 million interpretive center where, fittingly, visitors can research their own roots.
The 1919 house where Haley spent many boyhood summers (and where he’s now buried), has been open for tours in the past, but the interpretive center contains personal artifacts, such as the Emmy Haley won for the 1977 Roots miniseries, and more family memorabilia.
Other spaces will be used for writing and genealogy workshops. And two computer kiosks manned by volunteers from the Mormon church (known for its rich reserve of genealogical records) will instruct visitors in how to research family history.
Read the full article in the August 14, 2010 edition of USA Today.
Interesting news. Thank you for sharing.
Bill 😉
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Author of “Back to the Homeplace”
and “13 Ways to Tell Your Ancestor Stories”
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