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  • Radio Days

  • The Faraway Joys of Collecting Stamps

  • Reconciliation: Dock of the Bay

  • Your Library Diary

  • The Malco, the Orpheum: In Search of Your Memories

  • Finally, a Path to Conservancy for the Mid-South Coliseum

  • Luke Lea and the Tennesseans who tried to kidnap the Kaiser

  • Featured Story History Personal Narrative

    Radio Days

    By Robert Lanier, While young people today may not know that an old-time radio was once like a piece of furniture in virtually every household,…

    Robert Lanier June 15, 2024
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  • Community Featured Story History

    Your Library Diary

    The library. The name alone strikes reverberating cords of innocence and joy, craning our necks to read titles, flipping through pages of a well worn…

    Mark Fleischer May 15, 2024
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  • Arts Featured Story History

    The Malco, the Orpheum: In Search of Your Memories

    Hello readers, As StoryBoard navigates the next few chapters of our ongoing history of the Orpheum Theatre, we are inviting the memories of Memphians and…

    Mark Fleischer April 13, 2024
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  • Community Featured Story Historic Preservation

    Finally, a Path to Conservancy for the Mid-South Coliseum

    An announcement and a conversation give a Coliseum revival new hope In its most hopeful development to date, with the clearest path yet to solvency…

    Mark Fleischer March 24, 2024
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  • Featured Story History

    Luke Lea and the Tennesseans who tried to kidnap the Kaiser

    “I’d have given a year’s pay to have been able to have taken Lea’s trip into Holland and to have entered the castle of Count…

    Robert Lanier March 9, 2024
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Obituaries

John “Tommy” Lambert, Jr., a Real Patriot and an East Memphis Pioneer, Dies at 97

Mark Fleischer June 16, 2022 Colonial AcresWillow RoadWorld War II Veteran

John Thomas “Tommy” Lambert, Jr. November 2, 1924 – June 12, 2022 John Thomas “Tommy” Lambert, Jr., World War II veteran, husband, father, grandfather, great…

Read More John “Tommy” Lambert, Jr., a Real Patriot and an East Memphis Pioneer, Dies at 97
Arts Featured Story

Thomas Campbell solo exhibit Corollary at the Metal Museum

Caroline Carrico June 16, 2022 Exhibit ReviewMetal MuseumThomas Campbell

Inside the Keeler Gallery – the first exhibition space behind the Metal Museum’s visitor desk – large, curving steel sculptures hang on walls and sit…

Read More Thomas Campbell solo exhibit Corollary at the Metal Museum
Featured Story Neighborhoods

Annesdale Park: A Subdivision with a Watermelon Legacy

Neighborhood Board June 15, 2022 Annesdale ParkNational Register of Historic Places

This story was originally published in StoryBoard Memphis in November 2018 By Cathy Winterburn & Annesdale Park Archives  “When the next history of the city…

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Arts

Estate Art Auction to Benefit Four Memphis Nonprofits

Arts Board June 14, 2022 ArtAuction

The late Jimmy Beck was an avid art collector, and he bequeathed several pieces to be jointly shared by Church Health, MIFA, Calvary Episcopal, and…

Read More Estate Art Auction to Benefit Four Memphis Nonprofits
Featured Story Get Outta Town

Exit 56 Blues Fest: Real, Genuine, and Authentic

Ken Billett June 14, 2022 BluesBrownsville TennesseeDelta Heritage Center

Words and photos by Ken Billett I navigated my way through a good-sized crowd that occupied lawn chairs, camping chairs, and a couple of wooden…

Read More Exit 56 Blues Fest: Real, Genuine, and Authentic
Arts Featured Story

Mary Jade Learned Wins Prize for Play Arm in Arm

Caroline Carrico June 13, 2022 Performing ArtsPlayhouse on the SquareWriting

Mary Jade “MJ” Learned, a rising senior at First Assembly Christian School, won Playhouse on the Square’s 4th annual Play Slam! 10-Minute Young Playwright’s Festival…

Read More Mary Jade Learned Wins Prize for Play Arm in Arm
S.C. Toof letterhead
Featured Story History

S.C. Toof: A Memphis Institution

Caroline Carrico June 9, 2022 Madison AvenueOtto ZahnS.C. Toof

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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TN Shakespeare actors perform Macbeth
Arts

TN Shakespeare Awarded Dual Grants by N.E.A./Arts Midwest

Arts Board June 9, 2022 Performing ArtsTennessee Shakespeare Company

Tennessee Shakespeare Company has been announced as one of only four professional regional theatre companies to receive both the Shakespeare in American Communities-Schools grant and Shakespeare in American…

Read More TN Shakespeare Awarded Dual Grants by N.E.A./Arts Midwest
Summer Avenue in 1958
Featured Story Planning & Urbanism

Focus On Cities: Summer Avenue Complete Streets Study

Dane Forlines June 9, 2022 Complete StreetsSummer AvenueTransportationUrban Planning

This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Few roads in the United States could be described as “iconic.”…

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Navy Leap Frogs will jump at Navy Days at Memphis museum
Community

Ahoy! Navy Days Coming to MoSH

Community Board June 9, 2022 Museum of Science and HistoryNavy

The Memphis Museum of Science & History (MoSH) will host the United States Navy for Navy Days, three days of exciting activities, including the U.S. Parachute Team,…

Read More Ahoy! Navy Days Coming to MoSH

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