Equality Trailblazers Monument: “A Gift to the City”
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Memphis’s newest monument is a testament to the years suffragists fought…
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That Memphis Photographer
Courage at the Emmett Till Trial This is THE image. The only image – snuck in with courage and defiance by photographer Ernest Withers – captured…
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David W. Cooley: In Memoriam
David W. Cooley was a native of Hendersonville, NC but made a big impact on Memphis. He twice served as the CEO of the Memphis…
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Shanktown: World Premiere at Theatreworks
World Premiere Opens Professional Theatre’s 54th Season There’s a patriarch whose power is waning fast, a questionable friend, an estranged son, and a clinging daughter. Like an…
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Memphis Historical Fiction with a Historian’s Stamp of Approval
The most useful interpretations of the past make history relevant and accessible to wide audiences. When authors use well-researched facts about Memphis’s complex history as…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis February – April 1962
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Your correspondent takes you to events that occurred in February, March,…
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Downtown Memphis: All Grown Up
Chris Johnson serenaded us with a smooth distinct voice that, at one time, captured the hearts of American Idol fans around the country. Chris wasn’t…
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A Pipeline & A Pandemic: Graphic Essay by Mikhaila Markham
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Funding for this project made possible by the Tennessee Arts Commission’s COVID-19…
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Lexi Perkins: Behind the Arts Artist Profile
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Eeyore is Faceless Wearing a Fried Egg Necklace She wore an…
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Memphis River Parks Partnership – Bringing Biodiversity to the River
Plants, Pollinators, and Programming at the Memphis River Parks Partnership At the new Pollinator Pod near Beale Street Landing on what promised to be a…
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