After the close of the 2021 college football season earlier last month, I looked back on a unique moment during the season when I played…
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Get Out of Town: Rollin’ Stone Weekend
Story and photos by Ken Billett, originally published in StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly, Vol. 1 Issue I September 26, 2021, approximately 9:00 am: the stainless steel…
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“Anything sweet in the cupboard?” I asked. December and the holidays bring out the worst in my sweet tooth. “We still have some of these…”…
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Paducah, Kentucky Words and photos by Ken Billett May 2021—Another big bike, this time a Harley, rumbles and grumbles under our second-floor window. With its…
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A ‘Little’ Memphis in the Verde Valley, AZ Time Capsules – this story was originally published in December 2019 Story and Photos By Ken Billett…
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Beginning with Paducah’s Hotel Metropolitan, Ken Billett’s new travel column takes us to historically significant places within a weekend’s drive from Memphis Words and photos…
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Time Capsules Words and Zoe Photos By Ken Billett A woman, bundled up for the frigid November morning, rounded a cement pathway, heading in our…
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By Ken Billett On a warm Saturday afternoon in late May, my birthday week celebration came to an end at the Stax Museum of American…
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Great fortunes in my treatment for stage IV metastatic melanoma By Ken Billett Seated in a waiting area just outside the Radiology department, a man…
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May Seventeenth By Ken Billett The metal slug lies in a small slot inside my wooden lap desk—the kind of old item you might find…
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