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,…
Title Insurance and Neighborhood Revitalization
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LAW CORNER By Danny Schaffzin & Steve Barlow Very often after a foreclosure auction, a property is so delinquent on taxes that it…
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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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A Preview of The Central Gardens Home Tour, the Annual Revival & Walk Thru of Midtown History
NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD By Mark Fleischer In mid-1970s Memphis, after two decades of white flight when the physical center of Memphis felt closer to Poplar and…
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Changing of the Guard
MEMPHIS PASTIMES By Ken Billett Ted and I looked around a room that had become an impromptu cooling station. We were easily the oldest guys…
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The Second Chance Market: How A Once Start-Up Receivership Program is Helping Rebuild the City of Baltimore
By Fadi Assaf In a crowded room at a Radisson Inn in North Baltimore, an auctioneer stands in front of a podium and waits for…
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Midtown, Are You On The Map?
You should be – sign up today! Just $35 for a business listing; $60 for listing and logo placement; $350 to be a neighborhood sponsor;…
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The Incredible Journey of Horn Island: Celebrating an MCA Legacy
“It’s this precious gift of an experience that is solely unique to the MCA family. I’ve never experienced anything like it.” By Marilyn Koester, Memphis…
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Changes Coming To StoryBoard
Dear friends, Help StoryBoard Memphis stay in print! Read on. I am writing to you now because it is about the time of the month…
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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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Mother Jones, “The most dangerous woman in America”
A MEMPHIS CONNECTION – INSPIRED by WILLIE BEARDEN By Joe Lowry The most dangerous woman in America was a title coined by a United States…
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