We were standing by Elvis Presley’s grave.
“Do you remember where you were when you heard he was dead?” I asked, pen poised over my notebook.
Her name was Laura Pomeroy. She was 37, from La Crosse, Wisc., and this was her second visit to Memphis.
“Uh huh,” she nodded. “I was in 11th grade, in Galesville, Wisconsin, […]
The latest Elvis record is not the kind you download. If you were in Memphis, you knew you weren’t on Lonely Street at all those sold-out events. But Graceland spokesman Kevin Kern says the official attendance figure for the week was 75,000. Even in the sweltering heat, 55,000 took part in the candlelight vigil. “The […]
In collaboration with Elvis Presley Enterprises, executive director of Memphis Heritage June West unveiled the Memphis Heritage calendar for 2005 at the organization’s Downtown offices on South Main.
The calendar represents black-and-white Don Newman images of Memphis that have a direct connection to the life of Elvis.
Images such as the Memphis Public Employment office, where Elvis […]
Once the site of Assembly of God Church, which Elvis attended through 1954, and where the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and their families were members. Elvis would sneak out of Sunday services to go a mile down the street to East Trigg Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, to hear Rev. Herbert Brewster and the singing of Queen C. Anderson and the Brewsteraires.
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