Category: Memphis History
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Red Wallet Photo Gallery
During the holidays, I was looking through boxes of old photos at my parents’ house when I came across an old red wallet crammed full of small Polaroids taken from the mid- to late 1960s. They feature me, the little boy in the photos, and my family as we lived and played more than 50…
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The Bettis Family Cemetery
Sunday morning, I was up early, researching the Patterson branch of my family tree, when one little leaf led me to a cemetery I had driven past for years yet never seen. The Bettis Family Cemetery sits off Angelus Street between Madison and Poplar avenues, tucked into a busy retail strip between Home Depot and…
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The Rubble of the Union Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
What Memphis Lost at Union and Cooper In 1924, the congregation at Union Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, South, installed an M.P. Möller pipe organ inside its new sanctuary at 2117 Union Ave. The instrument had 1,457 pipes, enough to fill that corner of Union and Cooper with the sound of hymns, weddings, funerals and Sunday…