Author: Mark Fleischer

I was a career consultant and communications specialist in the payroll industry until moving from southern California to Memphis in late 2015. The Bluff City gave me a new start in the second half of my career, gifting me with a chance to return to my childhood fascinations with cities and my college passions in writing, theater, film, and storytelling, all the while allowing me to use my experience working with people, in consulting, teaching and communications, to bring a new voice to Memphis. This may be my first venture into multi-media publishing, but Life and Place - Memphis - gave me all the prep and tools I need.

Neighborhoods

Central Gardens’ History – Part II of A Neighborhood Association Born Out Of Activism

This month’s Central Gardens newsletter explores the 1975 turning-point decision that took the Central Gardens Neighborhood Association into the waning decades of the twentieth century.…

History

Aaron James’ Memphis, A Family Perspective

Mark Fleischer March 10, 2017

This is the first in a series, chronicling Memphian Aaron James’ journey in tracing his Memphis family roots. The family I had spent the first…

Neighborhoods

Central Gardens’s History – A Neighborhood Association Born Out Of Activism

Mark Fleischer February 17, 2017 Central Gardens Central Gardens Neighborhood Association Midtown

This month the Central Gardens newsletter explores the creation of the neighborhood association, from the original motivations to its ultimate formation in 1967, and its…

History

Wm C Ellis & Sons Building, Memphis, Tenn

Mark Fleischer February 8, 2017Image

This is the first in a series chronicling an important piece of Memphis history while it still lasts. Driving – or better yet, walking –…

Opinion

Memphis, My Blog Is Still Alive!

Mark Fleischer January 30, 2017

“I want StoryBoard to be a sanctuary. A respite from everything we see daily on the news and from the vitriol of FaceBook. However you…

History Neighborhoods

Central Gardens’ History – Celebrating Fifty Years as a Neighborhood Association

Mark Fleischer January 24, 2017 Central Gardens Central Gardens Neighborhood Association Midtown

(A version of this appears in the Central Gardens January Newsletter ) 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Central Gardens Neighborhood Association. And for their…

Featured Story Opinion

Welcome to StoryBoard Memphis

Mark Fleischer December 19, 2016

What Makes Memphis, Memphis? “StoryBoard uses collaborative storytelling to continually ask the central question: What Makes Memphis, Memphis? In re-examining Memphis’ glorious and painful pasts,…

History

The Battle For The Street: Madison Avenue

Mark Fleischer June 10, 2016 Madison Avenue Memphis History New Urbanism

“Madison is one of the last, walkable streets of its kind that we have left.” That’s what June West of Memphis Heritage told me when…

Opinion

My Own Private Memphis

Mark Fleischer March 18, 2016

All over the country, and the world, people have unique and personal connections to their cities, their neighborhoods. Their connections are often surface-level. Maybe it’s…