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Beginning with Paducah’s Metropolitan Hotel, Ken Billett’s new travel column takes us to historically-significant places within a weekend’s drive from Memphis Words and photos by…
View More New Column: ‘Get Out of Town’ takes us to Paducah, KY and the historic Metropolitan Hotel
Courtesy of our good friend Jimmy Ogle: With the July 16 ceremony unveiling the bronze statue in her likeness, Ida B. Wells reclaims her place…
View More Ida B. Wells presence in Memphis
Ida B. Wells Day today: Statue is unveiled at Beale and Fourth, capping a week and a day of celebration, education, reflection “We present you,…
View More Statue Unveiled: Ida B. Wells reclaims her place on Beale Street
Culminates with parade and statue unveiling Friday morning, July 16 “With the memorial to Ida B. Wells,” says the Memphis Memorial Committee, “we will honor…
View More Ida B. Wells’ Celebration Week begins Sunday, July 11
Marc Perrusquia, Willy Bearden, Daphene McFerren, John Ashworth and Bill Carey to present July 27 at the Cotton Exchange At a time when many members…
View More Tent City Movement, King Assassination to be discussed at July event in Memphis
With its first exhibit being unveiled Saturday, April 24, the new program honors and promotes engagement with the rich rural history of Southwest Tennessee As…
View More Introducing the Rural Heritage Trust, an active history of rural Shelby County
Hell on the Border continues the true story of a larger-than-life lawman By Michael Ray Taylor, for Chapter16.org In Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, Sidney Thompson…
View More Turning Back Evil
DIG Memphis Mysteries brings out the digital Memphis sleuth in all of us In April of 2020, as pandemic isolation was taking a firm hold…
View More Where in Memphis is this?
In the year of its 50th anniversary, a look back at the headlines, development and lingering aftermath of the epic, 1971 Citizens to Preserve Overton…
View More ‘It’s Too Late to Tinker’ With Expressway Route
Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…
View More Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route