words and photos by Melissa McMasters If you’re the sort to make New Year’s resolutions, now is the time to grudgingly start thinking about your plans for self-improvement. A few years ago, I set two goals for myself, thinking that if past was prologue, they were
words and photos by Melissa McMasters As the mornings finally start to turn crisp, I get a familiar feeling. It happens every fall: I’m so grateful to make it to the end of another long summer, to feel everything slow down a bit, to experience the
We’re excited to share that the Memphis Zoo and Overton Park Conservancy have been awarded a grant from the American Zoological Association’s Conservation Grants Fund. Our proposal to create a monarch butterfly habitat in Overton Park was one of just eight projects funded out of
words and photos by Melissa McMasters Here in Memphis, wood-warblers are birds that we see only in fleeting glimpses. Just a few species breed this far south, so our encounters with them are limited to a few weeks during their spring and fall migrations. After
Today officially marks my first day as your new Executive Director of Overton Park Conservancy. While we are lucky Tina will be sticking around a bit longer during a transition period and as we work to hire my replacement, I am eager to step foot
Sometimes small changes can have a big impact, and that’s been made thrillingly clear with Overton Park Conservancy’s addition of two pollinator-friendly planting beds at Veterans Plaza this summer. After we lost the crape myrtles in these raised beds to frost, we took the opportunity
Overton Park Conservancy is pleased to announce the selection of Kaci Murley as its new Executive Director, following the announcement earlier this summer that longtime ED Tina Sullivan would be stepping down. Kaci has served as the Conservancy’s Deputy Executive Director since 2019, where she
words and photos by Melissa McMasters I hope you’ve got your light-colored sheets and porch lights ready, because it’s time to celebrate National Moth Week! Mid-summer is the perfect time to appreciate the beauty and diversity of these mostly-nocturnal insects. Or, for those of you
by Dr. Malle Carrasco-Harris, Programs Manager Mrs. Fitzgibbons stands hollering on stacked cinder blocks in front of the blowing fan, creating a ruckus on this warm summer morning. I’m wishing for the umpteenth time in the past four years she would take it down just
After twelve years at the helm of Overton Park Conservancy, executive director Tina Sullivan has announced her plan to transition out of the role once a successor has been brought on board. Under Sullivan’s leadership, Overton Park has been restored as the crown jewel of
