In Tennessee, the late singer’s tiny schoolhouse has become a museum containing memorabilia sent by the star herself
: “She was fierce, and she was strong, and she was powerful, and that has stayed with me. As a little girl of color who didn’t have that type of role model in real life, it has stuck with me all these years.”
The museum – which will hold a twilight memorial service on Sunday – opened in 2014 inside the renovated Flagg Grove school at the WestDelta Heritage Center in Brownsville, about 50 miles north-east of Memphis. Turner attended school in the one-room building as a child growing up in nearby Nutbush, one of the small, rural towns that dot the farms and fields of western Tennessee.
The museum, which averaged 35,000 visitors a year before the coronavirus pandemic hit, contains a set-up of the classroom, including the original blackboard and wooden desks used by Turner and her fellow students. There are photos of Turner as well as the Armani, Versace and Bob Mackie dresses she wore on stage.“When she sent her stuff she really wanted the school to shine.
She adds: “Also inside the school, tucked away in a corner under straw, were some of the original desks and benches from the school when she was there. The chalkboard was still on the wall, the cubbies that the kids would have hung their coat on and put their books in was all still there, so that’s still a part of the structure now.is captured in this single room. The school had no electricity or plumbing . The toilets were holes in the ground with sheds built over.
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