Dulaney’s Districts Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. In this special series, the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties…
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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…
Read More Idlewild Presbyterian: A Congregation’s Sense of PlaceJava Cabana, My Place to Dream
NEIGHBORHOOD ASPIRATIONS By Mary Burns Early on when I was so young, I had a dream of opening a coffee shop. I wanted to ‘hold space’ where…
Read More Java Cabana, My Place to DreamSix Degrees of Frayser
NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES By Kelly King Howe It’s just another Friday night. The football game is over, and the real fun has just begun. Frayser Boulevard…
Read More Six Degrees of FrayserSwooning Over Squeaky Floors
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. …
Read More Swooning Over Squeaky FloorsYes 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…
Read More Yes Folks, Fall Is ComingIntersections
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…
Read More IntersectionsBoxtown: 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…
Read More Boxtown: The Land of Broken PromisesThe 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…
Read More The Heartbeat of a NeighborhoodHiraeth 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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