Your correspondent experiences despair and discovers hope which he shares with Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878…
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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 the University Club –…
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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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What I Thought I Knew
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES By Mark Scott Memphis, I need to talk. Because after 32 years as a high school teacher in Memphis I thought I knew most, if not…
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“Bluff City Law” & Indie Memphis Continue a Long Memphis Film History
SPECIAL KEYSTONE – FILM BOARD By Charlie Lambert Years ago, in 1982 to be exact, there was a very short-lived TV series called “Filthy Rich,”…
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Idlewild Presbyterian: A Congregation’s Sense of Place
Cover photo by Fred Toma. NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD Idlewild’s Expansion Affirms Commitment to Community, Once Again By Margot Payne Midtown, Before Midtown When you think of…
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I. The Preservation Era Arrives, Finally, In Memphis
Memphis Historic Preservation Part I: The Slums & White Flight By Mark Fleischer “We’re late. There’s not much left to save. There has been a…
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