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,…
Partially Blind, Beautiful Vision: The Art of Michael William
Michael Williams is legally blind. His vision is 20-100. That means that on a standard eye chart, he cannot read the letters on the second…
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Partnering With The Urban Land Institute For UrbanPlan Workshops
Neighborhood Preservation, Inc., is partnering with ULI Memphis to coordinate the UrbanPlan workshops. The Urban Land Institute (ULI), founded in 1936, has members in 95…
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Law Student Attorneys Aid City in Addressing Problem Properties
In our first Community Development Law Corner piece, we highlighted the complex web of legal ills that so often causes a property to devolve into…
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Winners In The 2018 Neighborhood Preservation Summit and Awards
OCTOBER 19, 2018 — Neighborhood Preservation, Inc., is proud to report on the Memphis Neighborhood Preservation Summit 2018. At the Summit, community stakeholders interested in…
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Volunteers Build A Neighborhood Garden
In the spring of 2014, as part of our work at Neighborhood Preservation, Inc., we began Carnes Garden on a vacant lot at 916 J.W.…
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Skyline Reflections Old and New
Landmarks Lost and Revived Memphis has about the most arcane, varied city skylines anywhere. Composed of half a dozen true high-rise buildings and a few…
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Midtown Alleys: Their Long, Functional, Hard-to-Research History
With Peter Pace and Aaron Klimek The alley. The term bring images to mind of darkness and shadows, the unknown between streets, lone figures walking…
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Dateline: Memphis, August 1950
The war in Korea dominated this month in Memphis history as young Memphians were conscripted for duty in the Far East and the first reports…
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Tennessee’s practice of suspending licenses from those who owe court fees is found unconstitutional
Originally published July, 2018. Feature Image: A new ruling states that Tennessee can no longer revoke driver’s licenses from people who cannot afford court fees.…
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Dateline: Memphis, July 1979
Your correspondent explains the significant events of this month in Memphis history, including the story of a railroad worker’s Memphis moment, a very brief-ing on…
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