NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES By Candace Echols It was the smell of root beer brewing in the basement. Or at least that’s what they told her. …
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Yes Folks, Fall Is Coming
NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD By Candace Echols Soon, very soon, a morning is going to come and it will bring with it something delightful. We will all…
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Intersections
NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES By Mark Scott Whenever I hear Chris Daughtry’s song “Home” it brings up conflicted emotions within me. Emotions of place. Both lost and…
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Writing Like a Camera
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH By Donal Harris During the Spring 2019 semester at the University of Memphis, I led the course “Writing Like…
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Boxtown: The Land of Broken Promises
FORGOTTEN NEIGHBORHOODS By Aubrey Ford, Phoebe Weinman & Walker Weinman Mrs. Alma Adams, 76, was still going without indoor plumbing. She had to walk through…
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The Heartbeat of a Neighborhood
A Fixture of Poplar Ridge Farms NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES By Ken Billett Paul Drake watched our neighborhood like a hawk. Either from his living room window…
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Hiraeth for 901 on 9.01
TRIBUTES By David Merrill Hiraeth is a Welsh concept of longing for home. ‘Hiraeth’ is a word which cannot be completely translated, meaning more than…
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Soaring Past Dogwood Drive
By Ron Buck Stuart slipped into the mineral room and switched on the black light’s ultraviolet rays. The jagged, translucent, crystalline forms in the display instantly glowed…
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Mud Island Monorail
Editor’s Note: StoryBoard Memphis is proud to introduce to our readers the Southern writer Niles Reddick. Niles, while not new to Southern readers, may be…
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