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Reuse and Adapt: Playhouse on the Square History, Part 3
1969 – 1971: The Lumbering Saga of Grace Slick, Chairman of the Board Visitors to Playhouse’s executive offices have occasionally commented on an ugly, yet…
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Joseph W. Martin: Curious Incident of the Missing Cotton Broker
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. On the morning of April 4, 1913, J. Lockhart Anderson arrived…
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Borrowed Spaces: Playhouse on the Square History, Part 2
If you missed part 1 of the history of Playhouse on the Square, you can read it here. Spring 1969: First Brushes with Celebrity As…
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The Circuit Players: Playhouse on the Square History, Part 1
1963: First Steps As students at Overton High School, Walter Slaughter and Jackie Nichols frequently worked on school productions together. But in the summer of…
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Equality Trailblazers Monument: “A Gift to the City”
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Memphis’s newest monument is a testament to the years suffragists fought…
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The Photograph: A New Perspective of the Emmett Till Trial
“That Memphis Photographer” captures courage in the face of white supremacy This is THE image. The only image – strategically snuck in with courage and…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis February – April 1962
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Your correspondent takes you to events that occurred in February, March,…
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A. Schwab Archives: Box 1 Finds and Theories
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. As I stood in the basement at A. Schwab looking over…
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S.C. Toof: A Memphis Institution
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. From its founding in 1864 to the present, Memphis-based printing company,…
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