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Author: Elaine Blanchard

Arts Featured Story

PASS OVER at Circuit, in the wake of violence, could not be more timely

Elaine Blanchard September 22, 2022 Antoinette NwanduCircuit PlayhouseJared JohnsonPass Over

The first play to open on Broadway after the Covid pandemic shut everything down is now the first play to open in Memphis that directly…

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Literature Poetry

Ida B. Wells

Elaine Blanchard July 14, 2022 Downtown MemphisIda B. WellsIda B. Wells statuepoetrypublic art

Ida B. Wells She’s small, standing in her full skirt Between the music of Beale and the bells of the Baptist church. Ida B Wells,…

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Arts Featured Story

Green Places for Little Shop of Horrors’ Cast

Elaine Blanchard November 30, 2021 Behind the ArtsBreyannah TillmanBrooke PapritzCOVID-19Daniel Stuart NelsonLittle Shop of HorrorsMichael GravoisNoelia Warnett-JonesPlayhouse on the SquareSamantha MillerZan Edwards

Dancers lift their arms in unison and twirl as a unit. Actors march across the room, lips moving as they run lines. Crew members place…

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Community

Water is Wonderful for Clean Memphis and International Paper

Elaine Blanchard November 24, 2021 Clean MemphiscurriculumenvironmentInternational PaperlitterMemphisWater

No longer are teachers urging students to simply pick up litter and put it in the trash. Instead, teachers are being trained by Clean Memphis…

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Featured Story Literature Personal Narrative

“The saddest case I’ve ever run across” – Imprisoned since 2012, Pamela Green found a reason to live

Elaine Blanchard November 4, 2020 Elaine BlanchardHelena ArkansasHope

… there was something about the man’s posture or the way he stood between Pamela and the door that triggered the young woman’s paranoia… A…

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Community Literature Personal Narrative

Monologues for Healing, from the Women Who Lived Them

Elaine Blanchard July 30, 2020 Elaine BlanchardPrison StoriesStorytelling

Prison Stories “I ran like she told me to do. A neighbor man grabbed me up and carried me across the street to his porch…

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Community Featured Story Literature Personal Narrative

Behind “Prison Stories”: A Storytelling Program For Healing

Elaine Blanchard July 30, 2020 Elaine BlanchardPrison StoriesStorytelling

A much-needed program, now over, that resonates through today’s Black Lives Matter movement Originally published in the November 2018 print edition of StoryBoard By Elaine…

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