Tara Willerup on Brad Davis 9 - 28 - 18

Tara Willerup spoke to Brad: Did the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. live in Connecticut? A group of Simsbury students set out to prove the popular suburban myth and discovered not only did he spend 2 summers working in Simsbury tobacco fields; his experience actually shaped his personal philosophies. Now the students have designed a permanent memorial to MLK that will be erected on the grounds of the Simsbury Free Library. The groundbreaking ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 11th and it has already been chosen as a destination on Connecticut’s Freedom Trail. Reps from the team of students, their teacher, staff of the Free Library and the architect are available to share this incredible piece of our state’s history to discuss the MLK memorial. Tara’s husband is the architect who helped the students design it