Boaz Legacy Museum Story and photos By David Moore
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t’s five days before the Boaz Legacy Museum holds its ribbon cutting on April 30. A less optimistic soul might think there’s no way it can happen, no way by then that the tables full of photos and documents and the piles of random artifacts can be organized into inviting displays depicting Boaz days of yore. 50
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“Oh,” says Wayne Hunt, an optimistic soul who’s been dreaming of this for the past several years, “we’ll get it done. It’s not as bad as you think.” A literal walking history of Boaz, Wayne is pointing out photos on walls and reeling off their history from the top of his head. Boaz librarian Lynn Burgess typing his comments into a laptop. After editing, she’ll print out signage explaining the various displays.
Also volunteering at the museum this evening are Brandi Tarvin, head of the child nutrition program for Boaz City Schools, and Lindsey King, marketing and event coordinator for Snead State Community College and retired school teacher Denise Willis. Synapses firing on all cylinders, Wayne identifies a small white building on a large, wall-mounted aerial photo of the Snead campus shot some years back. Barracks, he
