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A. Schwab, DIG Memphis, and StoryBoard Memphis release the first few thousand digitally scanned items from the A. Schwab Collection with a Digital Scavenger Hunt…
Read More The Basement is Open: the First Set of Items out of the A. Schwab Collection to be Released
The store’s Brass Note set for ceremony Saturday, May 6 at 1:00PM on the Blues Stage in Handy Park has been postponed A. Schwab Dry Goods,…
Read More POSTPONED: Beale Street Original A. Schwab Dry Goods Store to Receive a Beale Street Brass Note
By Robert Lanier Monday, August 13, 1945 was another hot Memphis summer day. It was a special day for more reasons than one, however. The…
Read More The Peaceful German invasion of Memphis
From the Memphis Room archives: A newspaper-clipping history of the “Queen of Memphis” Historic Sterick Building bought by local developer Midday Friday, March 31, the…
Read More To Live Again: A News-clipping History of the Sterick Building
March to Mace: The Sanitation Strike before Martin Luther King Jr.’s invitation to Memphis, and a look at Memphis newspaper coverage of the first few weeks…
Read More From the Archives: Coverage of the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike in the White Press
Looking back at March, 2020, when the world stopped. By Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent shares some of his Covid-19 experiences and offers historical context for…
Read More From the Archives: Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis March 2020
For the sake of soul and $52 million*, The Coliseum, and Memphis communities, deserve better StoryBoard Memphis was founded with the mission to support local…
Read More The Mid-South Coliseum, the “People’s Building,” must be given more fair grounds to work with
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Originally published in the print edition of StoryBoard Memphis in April, 2019 as part of our “Newman to Now” series; it has…
Read More The Coliseum, the People’s Building that has it all: It Says “Memphis”
There is nothing quite like the HBCU experience! Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a pivotal role in the lives of many African Americans.…
Read More Reviving a Lasting Legacy: the Grigg’s College Photo Contest
1993-2015: A Philanthropist Arrives: Memphis Theatre Hits Boomtime One fateful day in 1993, a top executive at AutoZone dropped by Playhouse on the Square and…
Read More More to Come: Playhouse on the Square History, Part 6