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Discovery Park grist mill near completion

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Volunteers at Union City’s Discovery Park are close to completing work on a grist mill that’s taken five years to build.  

The Union City Daily Messenger reports the mill’s framework is almost complete and the water wheel is in place.  The Discovery Park opens early next year and will feature a one-hundred-thousand square foot, three-storey exhibit hall.  The park will also hold a twenty-thousand gallon Reelfoot Lake aquarium and include a theater simulating earthquakes like those that rocked our region in 1811 and 1812.  

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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