Editing Wright City, Missouri (section)

==Arts and culture==
From 1992 to 2007, Wright City was home to the Elvis Is Alive Museum, run by Baptist minister [[Bill Beeny]] in his local general store, which explored Beeny's theory that the singer [[Elvis Presley]] is still living.<ref>Malcolm Gay, [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/us/08elvis.html "Giving Up the Memorabilia, but Not the Belief: Elvis Lives,"] ''New York Times'', 8 Nov. 2007</ref> In 2007, Beeny sold the museum's collection of artifacts on [[eBay]], and the museum briefly reopened in [[Hattiesburg, Mississippi]] before being placed into storage.<ref>Joel Currier, [http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/E6AB7511255D3FC6862574CC005A8F38?OpenDocument "Wanna Buy an Elvis Museum?"] ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', 22 Sept. 2008.</ref>