Your correspondent continues to report on the COVID-19 Pandemic and how it is affecting the Bluff City with another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating,…
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Tag: Yellow Fever
Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: a letter to Colonel Keating, who covered yellow fever
Your correspondent writes to J.M Colonel Keating, who covered the yellow fever epidemics of the 1870s, about our current state of the coronavirus pandemic Dear…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis March 2020
Your correspondent shares some of his Covid-19 experiences and offers historical context for this latest public health crisis. Disorder in the grocery store On Monday…
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Coronavirus? Memphis, We’ve Done This Before
Shelter in place, social distancing, self quarantine. Community spread, flatten the curve, herd immunity, essential services. Remember a bygone time when these buzz words were not in…
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Memphis, April 1968
April 1968 was the most important month of the 20th Century for the city of Memphis. The Sanitation Strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin…
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New Waring Sewer System Salvages The Future
By Aaron Klimek, with Mark Fleischer (a version of this story appears in May’s Central Gardens eNews) This month’s newsletter references the Standard History of Memphis,…
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