Word: eisterhold
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...barriers of good taste in its quest to create a sense of historical immediacy and emotional context for a jaded theme-park generation. "We estimate that 60% of those coming to the Civil Rights Museum will not have been old enough to remember the 1960s," explains exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold. "We are trying in the exhibits to give them a You Are There feeling...
...invited to peer through glass walls at two meticulously preserved bedrooms from the old Lorraine -- Room 307, where King often stayed, and Room 306, where he conferred with his lieutenants moments before he was shot on the adjoining balcony. "There was some discussion of populating Room 306 with figures," Eisterhold recalls but acknowledges that this seemed close to blasphemy. Nevertheless, he defends the decision to re- % create King's last supper (catfish) with a room-service tray and dirty dishes, as well as to leave a copy of the April 4, 1968, Memphis Press- Scimitar open...
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