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…
In a word, Empathy. It’s been a week since the world heard the news that Anthony Bourdain – the culinary adventurer and storyteller of CNN’s…
Read More Why Anthony Bourdain (Still) MattersCrossing Peabody, south on Front Street, past a vast and soulless parking lot, down the hill through the intersection at Beale, and across the street…
Read More A Vision For Ellis & Sons and One BealeBy Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent explains the significant events of this month in Memphis history including a government official’s visit to the Bluff City, a…
Read More Dateline: Memphis, June 1937Editor’s Note: StoryBoard Memphis is proud to introduce to our readers the Southern writer Niles Reddick. Niles, while not new to Southern readers, may be…
Read More Mud Island MonorailLike most other cities around the country, the 1920s were boom years for Memphis. Not only were major structures being erected vertically downtown, such as…
Read More East Memphis Subdivisions – The VillageAcross the nation, Memphis is getting a reputation as a dangerous place. Take it from Frank Gurnsey. Gurnsey came from the small town of Weyauwega,…
Read More Murder and Mayhem in Memphis“We’re completely outraged…” It was the summer of 1992. For Midtowners who had quietly filed out of council chambers after a July 28 meeting at…
Read More A House And A City Council At Odds With History, Part IIApril 1968 was the most important month of the 20th Century for the city of Memphis. The Sanitation Strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin…
Read More Memphis, April 19682018 marks Central Garden’s twenty-fifth year as a Historic Overlay District under the jurisdictional protections of the Memphis Landmarks Commission. For this two-part installment, we…
Read More 1585 Central Ave: A House, And A City Council, At Odds With History, Part IThe week of March 19, 2018, the Midtown Nursery and the old Idlewild Theater were razed to pave way for a proposed mid-city-type 5-story apartment…
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