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| Tourism and Recreation |
 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a world class medical research
facility in Memphis. Here, Peter Doherty won the 1996
Nobel Prize in Medicine. |
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| Tourists come from all over the world to see Graceland,
the home of Elvis Presley. Sun studios was where Elvis first
recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When Your
Heartaches Begin". Rock and roll is located in the city
also. Other famous musicians who got their start at Sun include
Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Charlie Rich, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison,
Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis. |
| Blues fans can head down to Beale Street, where
a young B.B. King used to play his guitar, and occasionally
still appears at a club bearing his name and partly owned by
him. |
| There is Libertyland Amusement Park and the adjacent
Liberty Bowl and Memphis Children's Museum, Mud Island, Detour
Memphis - an art and performing space, Lichterman Nature Center,
the Pink Palace Museum, The Pyramid, The Memphis Zoo, the Memphis
Queen riverboat. |
| The Mid-South Fair comes to the city every fall,
and every May there is the Memphis in May. Each year, the city
honors a foreign country, and each weekend hosts a special event,
including the World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest and
the Beale Street Music Festival. Also part of Memphis in May
is the FedEx St. Jude Classic, a PGA Tour golf tournament. Carnival
Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival), is
a series of parties and festivities staged every year by the
Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar
to that of Mardi Gras) during the early summer. Carnival salutes
various aspects of Memphis and its industries, and is reigned
over by the current year's secretly selected King & Queen
of Carnival. |
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