Too many names: Nashville memorial for child violence expands for families

When Kelby Smith was just 6-years-old, seeing stories about violent crimes claiming other kids his age filled him with loss. But it also gave him a pretty powerful idea. In 1997 — alongside his horticulturalist father Ron Smith and former Tennessee First Lady Andrea Conte's nonprofit You Have the Power — Kelby helped establish the Children's Memory Garden of Nashville. It was intended as a quiet place to remember the names of the children the city lost to violence in the midst of Centennial Park on West End Avenue.