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Sultana museum opening in November
The Sultana Disaster Museum will open at a new location in Marion, Arkansas, on Nov. 14 to tell the story of the sinking of the Sultana steamboat across the Mississippi River from Memphis. The Sultana was carrying more than 2,100 people north on the Mississippi, many of them newly released...
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This Tennessee Hobby Shop Is Packed With Treasures You Rarely See Anymore
Some stores sell stuff, and some stores hold memories. Mid-South Hobbies on Summer Avenue in Memphis is the second kind, a place stuffed with model kits, trains, RC cars, and paints that many towns lost years ago. Independent hobby shops like this one are getting harder to find, which makes a visit feel extra special.
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Meet Lizzie Davis: Paragould’s Bachelorette for the ‘Blind Date with The Red Clay Strays’
Jonesboro, AR – Jonesboro Right Now – Out of 44 hopeful candidates, a Paragould woman has been chosen to put her love life in the hands of Northeast Arkansas. Meet 35-year-old Lizzie Davis, of Paragould. As the chosen bachelorette for 104.9 the FOX’s “Blind Date with The Red Clay Strays” contest, Lizzie is gearing up for a night of live country music, a stretch limousine ride, and a blind date with a lucky local bachelor–chosen by you, the listeners.
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Bordello, bathhouse, Elvis lore. Memphis hotel has stories to tell
There is something fitting about a bar called The Dame opening its doors inside a building that has spent more than a century collecting stories. At 69 E. Pontotoc Ave., just off South Main Street in Downtown Memphis, the Hotel Pontotoc has never been an ordinary address. Built in 1906, the historic building has passed through a colorful succession of identities, including a bordello, a Turkish bathhouse and a nightclub. It also carries a particularly intriguing piece of Memphis lore: the rumor that Elvis Presley lost his virginity there in 1953. Naturally, this is the first question we asked the hotel and bar owner Joey Lewis. “That’s what I hear,” he said, with a laugh. “Dan Rather even reported on it once. You can find it on YouTube." DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS: State of Downtown talk highlights growth, upcoming projects in Memphis A building with a colorful past For the 42 years leading up to Lewis' plans for the property, the building had served as a private residence, with a family living there for decades. It was during this period, a few years back, that Lewis began imagining what the old building could become: his own boutique hotel and bar. First, there