Exploring Our Stories. StoryBoard Memphis is a nonprofit multimedia resource for news and feature-length stories on local arts, culture, history, and community. This podcast is a longer cut of the half-hour radio show that airs on Memphis's FM 89.3 WYPL each Sunday evening at 5:30 PM. Taken right out of the pages of StoryBoard Memphis, this show asks Memphians to talk about their passions, their initiatives, or to just talk about what makes Memphis, Memphis.
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episode 68: SB 30 Episode 68: The A. Schwab Basement Tapes, Part 1
The introduction to StoryBoard's multi-year project to bring the basement archives and collections of Beale Street's iconic and historic A. Schwab Dry Goods & General Store to the public and the collection scanned and added to DIG Memphis, the digital archive of the Memphis Public Library. Listen in as host Mark Fleischer joins original project administrator Caroline Carrico as they discuss the origins of the project and the outlines as to how this massive project will move forward.
Recorded upstairs in the events space at A. Schwab, at 163 Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, in December of 2021.