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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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Community Featured Story

Dorothy Day House: Providing Homes for Families

Dannon Thornton February 17, 2022 Dorothy Day HousehomelessnessMemphisVolunteer Odyssey

“If you need it in your house, we need it in our house times nine.” – Sister Maureen, Executive Director of the Dorothy Day House…

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Choices
Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Choosing to Set the Tone

Candace Echols February 17, 2022 Ice Storm 2022

“I’m thinking of writing my column this week on choosing a good attitude,” I said to my teenage daughter. “Can you think of anything else…

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Featured Story Poetry

Withers Work Will Never Wither

Jeanine Jones February 17, 2022 Ernest C Witherspoetry

Withers Work Will Never Wither By Jeanine Jones They say a picture is worth 1000 words His are worth more than 1 million before the…

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Literature

Speaking Ida’s Truth for a New Generation: Interview with Michelle Duster

Julie Danielson February 14, 2022 Book ReviewChapter16Ida B. WellsJulie DanielsonMichelle Duster

Michelle Duster writes a children’s book about her great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells By Julie Danielson, originally published on Chapter 16 on February10, 2022 The work of…

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Community

White Station High selected to pilot AP African American studies class

Chalkbeat Tennessee February 11, 2022 African American studiesShelby County SchoolsWhite Station High School

Memphis’ White Station High selected to pilot AP African American studies class By Samantha West, Chalkbeat Tennessee This story was originally published by Chalkbeat on…

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Literature Poetry

Penning, Printing and Pressing On: The Ida B. Wells Statue

Jeanine Jones February 10, 2022 Downtown MemphisIda B. Wellspoetrypublic art

This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue I of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in November 2021, page 22-23. Penning, Printing and Pressing On There’s nothing civil about…

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Featured Story

A. Schwab Project Receives SHARP Grant

Caroline Carrico February 10, 2022 A. SchwabHumanities TennesseeNational Endowment for the HumanitiesSHARP grant

StoryBoard Memphis is thrilled to announce that we have received a SHARP grant from Humanities Tennessee and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the…

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Personal Narrative

Fire and Ice: Ice Storm 2022

Caroline Carrico February 7, 2022 FireIce Storm 2022Memphis

Fire and Ice: Ice Storm 2022 “We are all fine. Our house is not.” I have texted, emailed, and repeated those words in my heart…

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Community

Three Performers Join Opera Memphis’s Handorf Company Artist Program

Arts Board February 7, 2022 Opera MemphisThe Handorf Company Artist program

Opera Memphis welcomes three exciting performers to the Handorf Company Artist program The Handorf Company Artist program, which provides career building experiences to emerging singers…

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Literature

Foot Soldier for Justice: Interview with Kathlyn J. Kirkwood

Julie Danielson February 7, 2022 Book ReviewChapter16Children's BooksKathlyn J. KirkwoodMLK Day

Kathlyn J. Kirkwood discusses her memoir for young readers on the making of MLK Day By Julie Danielson for Chapter16.org, originally published January 25, 2022 “I was…

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