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    Parris Island Museum to display new exhibit

    Parris Island Museum to display new exhibit

    Photo By Lance Cpl. Javarre Glanton | An electronic display, similar to the one in the Douglas Visitors’ Center, will be...... read more read more

    PARRIS ISLAND, SC, UNITED STATES

    08.26.2011

    Story by Lance Cpl. Javarre Glanton 

    Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

    PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. - Drew Carey, Ed McMahon. Montel Williams. Bea Arthur. They’re all famous personalities, but they started as Marines.

    Such success stories can be found in the book, “Anyone Here a Marine?” which has inspired an upcoming exhibit at the Parris Island Museum.

    Construction began Aug. 16 for the exhibit, which will display photos and short biographies of the most well-known celebrities, politicians and famous entertainers who once served in the Corps.

    The museum had a very similar exhibit in the past, but the exhibits coordinator eventually felt it too makeshift to keep on display. The new exhibit will display about 60 names and will be accompanied by a 42-inch touch-screen monitor with information about veteran Marines not included on the panels.

    “We base a lot of stuff on what we see,” said Dana MacBean, exhibits coordinator. “We saw a lot of people looking at the old exhibit and people would go by, read each one and say ‘I didn’t know he or she was a Marine.’”

    Museum officials intend to use the display to make the general public more familiar with the history of the Marine Corps and better understand the impact it’s made on society.

    The exhibit, to be built right beside Alexander Shipp’s Store, is expected to be complete toward the end of the year or the beginning of 2012, according to Kim Zawacki, museum curator.

    “It will be just one wall but it’ll be the most popular exhibit in the museum,” MacBean said. “When we had this exhibit up before people would just get entranced in it.”

    The museum staff hopes visitors and tourists will take an interest in learning about people who have done amazing things and who can point to their experience in the Marines as the foundation of their success.

    “I want people to see this and come back,” MacBean said. “I want it to be so fascinating that they’ll want to return to see everything else.

    “It’s one of those exhibits that are timeless – there will always people looking at it,” he added. “We want the museum to carry out its intended purpose – education.”

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    Date Taken: 08.26.2011
    Date Posted: 08.29.2011 15:21
    Story ID: 76146
    Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SC, US

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