This past Thursday night brought out many members of community as we all came together to celebrate the opening of the FIRST Ava Gardner Museum multi-media exhibit, The Most Photographed Woman In the World.  Together with the Greater Smithfield Selma Chamber of Commerce, which also held their monthly Business After Hours at the Museum, the evening was a smashing success!  Lots of smiles and positive comments as attendees mixed and mingled with each other all the while viewing the new exhibit and the rest of the Museum’s collections.  Here are a few pictures captured from the evening:

Attendees hear from Jessica Medows Hammett, Executive Director of the Ava Gardner Museum and Rick Childrey, Executive Director of the GSSCC

Checking out the displays

Three ladies enjoying themselves so much that they were happy to pose for a picture!

Checking out The Most Photographed Woman In the World

Mary Edna Grantham and a friend posing right in front of Ava

We hope to many of you visit over the next several months so that you too can see why Ava truly was THE Most Photographed Woman in the World at the height of her career.