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…
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Tag: Memphis Public Libraries
The Basement is Open: the First Set of Items out of the A. Schwab Collection to be Released
A. Schwab, DIG Memphis, and StoryBoard Memphis release the first few thousand digitally scanned items from the A. Schwab Collection with a Digital Scavenger Hunt…
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Saturday at the Central Library, the Bookstock Author’s Festival is here!
The Memphis Area Authors’ Festival, celebrating over 10 Years of Local Authors, begins Saturday at 11AM in the main lobby of the Benjamin L. Hooks…
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Support your Library, and enjoy a Sunday at Wiseacre on Broad
Looking for a way to both enjoy a Sunday afternoon at a local brewery AND support an awesome cause?! Look no further than getting a…
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Do You Love Our Public Libraries? Take Their Survey!
Do we love our public libraries? You betcha we do! Don’t know what we’d do without them here at StoryBoard. The Memphis Library Foundation is…
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CLOUD901: Teens Creating, Connecting, and Chilling at the Public Library
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. As an artistic teen, East High School senior Tashi Richmond is…
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DIG Memphis Mysteries: Where in Memphis is this?
DIG Memphis Mysteries brings out the digital Memphis sleuth in all of us In April of 2020, as pandemic isolation was taking a firm hold…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, September 23, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent surveys the disruptions of American life due to the Covid-19 pandemic in another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating,…
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Women’s Suffrage in Memphis and Beyond
We celebrate Women’s Equality Day on August 26th to commemorate Colby’s certification of the Nineteenth Amendment, but for many Americans, August 18th was the day…
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Dialogue: Jacqueline Wallace and Willy Bearden
Since becoming President of Friends of the Library, Jacqueline Wallace has put her creative and entrepreneurial skills to work building more and more programs for…
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