While hundreds of park visitors converged on the Greensward in search of Pokémon, last week the Conservancy staff had an opportunity to see creatures that most park visitors will never encounter: copperhead snakes. University of Memphis graduate researcher Malle Carrasco-Harris let us tag along as she checked in
We’d like to thank everyone who rode with us during the first weekend of the Overton Park / Overton Square shuttle! We were glad to have the opportunity to test-drive this service and see how to make it run most efficiently. The run from the
This morning, representatives from the City of Memphis, Overton Park Conservancy, the Memphis Zoo, and Citizens to Preserve Overton Park met to discuss overflow parking on the Greensward over the next several weeks. The City’s CAO, George Little, reaffirmed Mayor Wharton’s commitment to ending Greensward
If you’ve ever sat in an Overton Park traffic jam and wished for a more convenient way to access the park, we’ve got excellent news for you. This past weekend, Mayor Wharton announced that the City of Memphis would work with Overton Park Conservancy and
Ken Nuckolls shares a memory of being not-so-lost in Overton Park when he was a boy. Almost all of my stories of Overton Park involve early memories of the Zoo (1950’s). This particular story involves both the Zoo and the Brooks Museum of Art. In
