Brown Bag Lunch and Learn: The Year the Rockets Came

The announcement on Friday morning, November 4^th, 1948, that the Army Missile Research and Development Team would be transferring in the spring of 1950 from El Paso, Texas to Huntsville Alabama set in motion developments that would transform Huntsville forever. This presentation is a snapshot of what Huntsville was like on that momentous November day.  We’ll explore what were the hopes and dreams of Huntsvillians; why were the textile mills surrounding Huntsville no longer the economic engine driving the city’s future; what was life like, and where did people shop and play? There will stories about and photographs of a city perched on the edge of profound changes. Presented by David Lilly.