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Love List 2020, Day 18: Pappy and Jimmy’s Restaurant

Brantley Ellzey May 29, 2020 Brantley EllzeyBrantley’s Love ListI Love MemphisLost Restaurants

By Brantley Ellzey This whackadoo souvenir plate has hung in the kitchen at Ellfrow (our house name) for over twenty-five years and always makes me…

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Introducing ‘Love List 2020,’ Brantley Ellzey’s daily odes to joy and inspiration

Brantley Ellzey May 21, 2020 Advance Rubber StampsBest Rubber StampsBrantley EllzeyBrantley’s Love ListRubber Stamp CollectingStamps

By Brantley Ellzey Forward: In January of this year, I began a daily blog on Facebook called Love List 2020. I hoped it would act…

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Memphians At Home: A Renewed Obsession With Bookshelves

Arts Board May 18, 2020 BookshelvesBurke's BooksCorey MeslerJulie McCulloughRichard Alley

Home bookshelves fascinate as the new TV studio backdrops All over the airwaves during the shutdown, talking heads have been appearing against a backdrop of…

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Arts Personal Narrative

Creatively Coping: Amanda Willoughby, perfecting her green thumb

Arts Board May 12, 2020 Amanda WilloughbyCOVID StoriesCreatively CopingKristin JonesPlanting

One of six artists profiled in Creatively Coping, Kristin Jones’ essay on the therapeutic power of working with one’s hands during uncertain times The Arts Board,…

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Why We Love Memphis, Volume II

Community Board May 10, 2020 I Love Memphis

For the Valentine’s Day, Love Issue of StoryBoard last February – an era ago, 2019 that is – we asked Memphians to share what they love about…

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Arts Personal Narrative

Creatively Coping: Stippling, dot by contemplative dot, with Rebecca Phillips

Arts Board May 5, 2020 Creatively CopingKristin JonesRebecca PhillipsStippling

One of six artists profiled in Creatively Coping, Kristin Jones’ essay on the therapeutic power of working with one’s hands during uncertain times The Arts Board,…

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Arts Personal Narrative

Creatively Coping: For Jess Tinsley, Painting is Relief

Arts Board May 3, 2020 Creatively CopingJess TinsleyKristin JonesPainting

One of six artists profiled in Creatively Coping, Kristin Jones’ essay on the therapeutic power of working with one’s hands during uncertain times The Arts…

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Arts Featured Story Personal Narrative

Creatively Coping, By Touch

Kristin Jones May 1, 2020 Amanda TorresAmanda WilloughbyCopingCOVID ReliefCreatively CopingGeoffrey Brent ShrewsburyJess TinsleyKatie BurrissKristin JonesRebecca Phillips

Seven creatives share how their craft helps them cope, and stay in touch. “I discovered it was my form of therapy. . . to be…

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Featured Story Personal Narrative

Why We Love Memphis, Volume I

Community Board April 26, 2020 I Love MemphisI Love Memphis BlogMemphis

For the Valentine’s Day, Love Issue of StoryBoard last February – an era ago, 2019 that is – we asked Memphians to share what they…

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A fleeting pleasure in the garden, before the return to ourselves

Kristin Jones April 17, 2020 Dixon Gallery and GardensGarden WalksGardensKristin JonesMemphis Botanic GardenSpring

The visions, thoughts, and sounds, of a spring garden walk before the pandemic shutdown by Kristin Jones The Japanese have a phrase, mono no aware,…

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