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A gift granted her as a child helped Grace Fragoso find her calling.
By Marilyn Sadler |
July 1, 2010
When she was 10 years old, living with her many sisters and brothers at the orphanage her parents founded in Brazil, Grace Fragoso met a Memphis man who admired her love of reading. "I had gotten a dictionary as a gift," she recalls, "and I was trying to memorize English words.
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The St. Jude Classic boasts a volunteer who proves age is but a number.
By Frank Murtaugh |
June 1, 2010
Stan Caummisar saw a lot of the world before settling in Memphis on New Year's Day, 1965. A native of Louisville, Caummisar built a career as a salesman — insurance, then typewriters — that took him to Atlanta, New Orleans, Clearwater (Florida), and Dallas before he took a job in Memphis as the first branch manager for Xerox in Tennessee.
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Entering its second decade, Visible School spreads its unique gospel to the sound of music.
By Frank Murtaugh |
May 1, 2010
As a guitarist in the Nineties Christian rock band, Skillet, Ken Steorts managed a rarity in harmonizing entertainment and ministry. Today, as president of Visible School, Steorts and his staff of 30 are harmonizing education, music, and faith as part of a three-year college program that's changing — and shaping — the lives of young people from as far away as Alaska and the Czech Republic.
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From cafe receipts to FBI reports, a former police dispatcher has compiled an incredible library of Martin Luther King files.
By Michael Finger |
April 1, 2010
Vince Hughes thought April 4, 1968, would be a slow night. The 23-year-old dispatcher was training a rookie on the switchboard in the old Memphis Police Department headquarters at 128 Adams, sitting at his elbow as they fielded routine calls from squad cars checking into service, reporting a railroad crossing signal down, a traffic light out.
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A research program at the Memphis Zoo may be the last chance for saving some of the world's endangered species.
By Michael Finger |
March 1, 2010
In a nondescript building a dozen yards from North Parkway, Dr. Andy Kouba gives visitors a look at the "frozen zoo." Unlatching the lid of an insulated container the size of a beer keg, he gently lifts out a stainless-steel rack of test tubes suspended in liquid nitrogen.
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A local church reaches the homeless where they live.
By Marilyn Sadler |
February 1, 2010
It's a teeth-chattering Sunday in early January, but the finger-numbing cold doesn't chill the spirits of those gathered at a downtown park to sing, testify, hear scripture, and praise God. At the front of the group — which starts with about a dozen but gradually swells to 50 or more individuals — are two men and two women clad in parkas, hoods, and scarves.
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A group of equestrians hp out of the saddle and into the carriage.
By Marilyn Sadler |
January 1, 2010
In Wanda Chancellor's barn, along with her three horses, are several carriages she's accumulated through the years: a road cart made by the Amish; a two-wheeler built by a cabinetmaker; and a restored antique "dress-up" carriage with lanterns and wicker sides. But her favorite is tucked away in a trailer; it's a marathon carriage for cross-country driving: past hurdles, through water, up and down ravines.
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A Chernobyl survivor brings her art and insights to Memphis
By Marilyn Sadler |
December 1, 2009
in April 1986, she was a 6-year-old living at her parents' summer home in her native Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), when a nuclear reactor erupted 13 miles away. That disaster, known as Chernobyl, exposed hundreds of thousands of people to radiation and its ravaging effects.
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