We believe all children can learn and deserve opportunities to reach their full potential. Jackson and financed with proceeds from the sale of the brothers' Goodlark Regional Medical Center, which they established in 1958. We want to push them to dream and fuel their passions. On most weekdays, the complex is bustling with excited children and teenagers on field trips from area schools. Mondays are reserved for adult visitors.
Seniors enjoy computer classes, exhibits, plays, and musical concerts for free.
Rounding out the center's resources are high-tech television and recording studios, a theater, a cafe, a visual arts gallery with changing exhibits, and a bookstore. The 455-seat Performing Arts Theater hosts plays and concerts enjoyed by the whole community. The center's own professional company of actors stages shows ranging from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. At the CyberCafe, tables are equipped with computers, allowing students to surf the Web while taking breaks from classes. The center's first year saw some 35,000 young visitors, says Sara Caudill, Dickson's director of elementary education.