There are 4 article(s) tagged Brooks Lamb:

• May 2025

  • Guest column: State takes needed action to protect farms

    Tennessee’s new Farmland Preservation Fund helps farmers secure their land and legacy, supports local and regional food systems, conserves wildlife habitats and stimulates rural economies.

    By Brooks Lamb 58 minutes ago

• August 2023

  • How farmers persevere despite ever-growing challenges

    Brooks Lamb, who wrote “Overton Park: A History,” joins Eric Barnes to talk about his new book, “Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place.”

    By Eric Barnes August 12, 2023

• December 2018

  • Change is constant in newly published Overton Park history

    Brooks Lamb was making final edits on his book about Overton Park when he found out the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art was planning a move out of the park to Downtown Memphis.

    By Bill Dries December 18, 2018

• November 2018

  • Nelson: Overton Park and how the good guys finally won

    With a new master plan for Overton Park in the works – the first in 30 years – what better time than now for Brooks Lamb’s new University of Tennessee Press book “Overton Park: A People’s History” to appear in Memphis bookstores?

    By Michael Nelson November 22, 2018