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Peace Resource Center’s ‘Phoenix’ Exhibit to Open at Dayton Peace Museum

Peace Resource Center
Student-Produced Exhibit Was Featured at PRC from June through August The Peace Resource Center’s student-produced exhibit, “The Voyage of the Phoenix,” will open Sunday (Nov. 13) at the Dayton International Peace Museum with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. (PICTURED) The Reynolds family and crew of the Phoenix of Hiroshima. The program will include a presentation by Dr. Tanya Maus, director of the PRC at Wilmington College, and an introduction of the students that produced the exhibit: Maraya Wahl, Ellyse Herr, Hillary Mitchell and Jessica Fair. Maus will share the story of the Reynolds family and their expedition, in the mid-1950s, in support of a world free of nuclear weapons. Barbara Reynolds went on to establish the Peace Resource Center, which includes a large depository of materials related to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which hastened the end of World War II yet left 140,000 dead and dying. The exhibit focuses on the 1958 peaceful protest by the family sailing into the Pacific nuclear testing zone to protest the use of nuclear weapons and the then unknown dangers of radiation on persons and the environment. It features original artifacts, photographs and manuscripts from the trip. Wikipedia describes the watercraft, The Phoenix of Hiroshima, as a 50-foot, 30-ton yacht that circumnavigated the globe and was later involved in several famous protest voyages. Between its launch in 1954 and its sinking in 2010, the Phoenix carried a family around the world, was used to make protest voyages against nuclear weapons, was declared a Japanese national shrine and, ultimately, ended up offered free-of-charge on Craigslist — gutted and stripped of masts.