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TRUTH – STRANGER THAN FICTION

FROM THE BANKS OF TODD’S CREEK

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FAMILY

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CHURCH

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FAMILY

Who is the genteman carrying the sign in the snow? He’s an old family friend who made a bit of history by staging a one-man protest against Mayor Henry Loeb and in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968. [Read More]

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WORK

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Rassling

While I was teaching harmonica at U of Memphis, the Memphis in May folks decided to host an International Harmonica Festival, which included among other events, a jam session on the Mississippi River party barge (Remember Richard Manning’s party?). The Memphis in May people asked me to attend this festival as an evaluator. Being friends with the director of the festival, world renowned harmonica virtuoso and former Harmonicat Pete Pederson, I was able to get complimentary passes to the river boat party for my class.

To my delight and surprise, one of the attendees at this party was star of Saturday Studio Wrestling, Billy Wicks. Yes, Billy, father of Frayser’s own Debbie Wicks, is a harmonica player too. [read more]

The Mayor and I

There once was a county clerk in Memphis, by the name of Dick Hackett. He was a hard line fundamentalist right winger who required female employees to wear bras. I wrote him and volunteered to be the county bra “inspector.” Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.

His brother, Mark, took over the Mayor’s Action Center – handling complaints on stuff like weeded lots, trash pick-ups, etc. I figured his brother was just as goofy a right winger as Dick was. [read more]