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,…
What Memphis Loses With Gannett’s Commercial Appeal Layoffs
The layoffs this week of about 30 percent of The Commercial Appeal’s newsroom by its corporate parent Gannett Co., Inc. are a blow to the…
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Part II – Wm C ELLIS & SONS, Memphis, Tenn
This is the second photo essay in a series chronicling an important piece of Memphis history. Crossing Peabody, past a vast and soulless parking lot,…
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Central Gardens’ History – Part II of A Neighborhood Association Born Out Of Activism
This month’s Central Gardens newsletter explores the 1975 turning-point decision that took the Central Gardens Neighborhood Association into the waning decades of the twentieth century.…
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Aaron James’ Memphis, A Family Perspective
This is the first in a series, chronicling Memphian Aaron James’ journey in tracing his Memphis family roots. The family I had spent the first…
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Central Gardens’s History – A Neighborhood Association Born Out Of Activism
This month the Central Gardens newsletter explores the creation of the neighborhood association, from the original motivations to its ultimate formation in 1967, and its…
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Wm C Ellis & Sons Building, Memphis, Tenn
This is the first in a series chronicling an important piece of Memphis history while it still lasts. Driving – or better yet, walking –…
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Memphis, My Blog Is Still Alive!
“I want StoryBoard to be a sanctuary. A respite from everything we see daily on the news and from the vitriol of FaceBook. However you…
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Central Gardens’ History – Celebrating Fifty Years as a Neighborhood Association
(A version of this appears in the Central Gardens January Newsletter ) 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Central Gardens Neighborhood Association. And for their…
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Welcome to StoryBoard Memphis
What Makes Memphis, Memphis? “StoryBoard uses collaborative storytelling to continually ask the central question: What Makes Memphis, Memphis? In re-examining Memphis’ glorious and painful pasts,…
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“Madison is one of the last, walkable streets of its kind that we have left.” That’s what June West of Memphis Heritage told me when…
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