By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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Before LibertyLand: MEMORIES of the Old FAIRGROUNDS AMUSEMENT PARK
Nothing says summer like the Fairgrounds. And nothing says Memphis like the old Fairgrounds of Memphis memories, a perfect diversion during these challenging times as…
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Off the Endangered List: The Hotel Chisca
Profile #1 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Gordon Alexander Located at the corner of Martin…
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Elvis is Everywhere
A ‘Little’ Memphis in the Verde Valley, AZ MYTHIC MEMPHIS Story and Photos By Ken Billett Junior Wells wails out another sad line about loving…
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‘ANARCHY IN MEMPHIS’ Looking Back At The Infamous 1978 Fire (and Police) Department Strikes
1978. Forty-one years ago this summer the Memphis Fire Department Strike left over 200 structures in ruins. To hear witnesses, journalists and historians recall it,…
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