Memphis Tennessee Field Guide

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A field guide to Memphis: soul food and art museums, filmmakers and journalists, music history and neighborhood lore. Inside Wildsam Memphis you find city stories from prize-winnin g writers, past and present; illustrated maps to rock and soul, Civil Rights history and barbecue; interviews with musicians, radio station managers and restaurant owners; delightful miscellany from the archives, selective recommendations about authentic Memphis experiences and trusted travel essentials. "Author Robert Gordon once wrote that Memphis is a place where "the ideas are strong because, like weeds growing in a concrete sidewalk, they must force themselves through," Never more apparent than today, Memphians continue that honest hustle to turn pearls out of their city's grit." 145 pages, printed in the U.S.A. Back-pocket size, 4 x 6.5 inches Featuring more than a dozen local voices Founder & Editor in Chief Taylor Bruce Editor Hannah Hayes Illustrations Maggie Russell Contributing WritersJesse Davis, Wesley Morgan Paraham, David Grivette FeaturingBoo Mitchell, Robert Gordon, Tara M. Stringfellow, Julien Baker, Hampton Sides, Ida B. Wells Show more