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Dateline: Memphis May 27 2020
By Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, your…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: May 1897. Spirits, Sightings, May-hem
Your correspondent takes you to points across the city including Beale Street, the Criminal Courts, Odd Fellows Hall, the Lyceum Theater, and Virginia Avenue, where…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis April 22, 2020
Your correspondent continues to report on the COVID-19 Pandemic and how it is affecting the Bluff City with another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating,…
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This Place In History – Medical District Haunts
Medical District Haunts By Julie McCullough I don’t recall particularly liking social studies as a child. However, when I realized my great-great grandfather was a…
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Beale Street: Home of … a Neighborhood
NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD Today’s neon Home of the Blues district was once a thriving Memphis neighborhood By Tiara Campbell Beale Street is the Home of the…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: a letter to Colonel Keating, who covered yellow fever
Your correspondent writes to J.M Colonel Keating, who covered the yellow fever epidemics of the 1870s, about our current state of the coronavirus pandemic Dear…
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Early History of The “U Club”
At the intersections of Cleveland Street, Central Avenue and Lamar Avenue, just outside of the Central Garden’s official western border, resides a neighborhood anchor and…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis March 2020
Your correspondent shares some of his Covid-19 experiences and offers historical context for this latest public health crisis. Disorder in the grocery store On Monday…
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Coronavirus? Memphis, We’ve Done This Before
Shelter in place, social distancing, self quarantine. Community spread, flatten the curve, herd immunity, essential services. Remember a bygone time when these buzz words were not in…
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