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Having a blast! Celebrating Independence Day

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Published July 1, 2009 at 5:28 p.m.

Fourth of July festivities, including fireworks, parades, speeches and concerts, are being held around the area. Downtown Memphis' Red, White and Blues Celebration begins at 5 p.m. Friday in Beale Street's W.C. Handy Park, with music provided by local rapper Muck Sticky and others. At 9:30 p.m., fireworks will erupt over Tom Lee Park. On Saturday in Germantown, Municipal Park will be the center of activities beginning at 5 p.m., with fireworks at 9:10 p.m. Here's a list of Independence Day

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Withers Museum Headed to Beale

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Published April 30, 2009 at 7:09 p.m.

An agreement has been struck between Beale Street's Performa Real Estate and the Ernest C. Withers Trust to create museum to preserve and promote Withers' photographic legacy in his former studio space ... Read more about it in Sing All Kinds ...

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Ernest Withers Museum Headed to Beale Street

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Published April 30, 2009 at 2:50 p.m.
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One of the great joys of living in Midtown Memphis in the days before digital photography was being able to walk into the Walgreen's on Union Avenue on any given day and have a conversation with noted Civil Rights photographer Ernest C. Withers who, prior to his death in 2007, could often be found there waiting for his latest roll of film to be developed. He was a common, down-to-Earth man with an uncommon talent for documenting the extraordinary people and events that shaped Memphis in the last

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