There are 8 article(s) tagged Kemmons Wilson:

• August 2025

  • Conaway: Genius both honorable and despicable. We’ll take it.

    “Kemmons Wilson and Fred Smith were honorable men. Both were native sons. Neither of our new saviors, Henry Ford and Elon Musk, are either of those things.”

    By Dan Conaway August 15, 2025

• April 2025

  • Conaway: You can’t sell Summer Drive-In memories; they’re priceless

    “If the drive-in was mine, what would I do with it?"

    By Dan Conaway April 04, 2025

• April 2024

  • Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: ‘Curiosity does the heavy lifting’

    “Macsovits has taken what she’s been taught in the course of a lifetime, married it with the deeper and broader perspective she has earned in motherhood, and is now passing it on to others.”

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    By Candace Echols April 03, 2024

• May 2020

  • Coronavirus live blog, April 28: Watch interview with Shantelle Leatherwood

    The CEO of Christ Community Health Services discusses her organization's response to the COVID-19 crisis. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 08, 2020

• November 2019

  • Central Station hotel, lobby bar on track to open this week

    The Central Station, a Curio Collection by Hilton hotel in Memphis' historic train station, aims to open during the week of Oct. 21-25. The Daily Memphian provides a sneak peek.

    By Wayne Risher November 26, 2019

  • Conaway: A few of us

    What these people have in common is Memphis – a place from which seemingly ordinary people send extraordinary things to the world.

    By Dan Conaway November 15, 2019

• June 2019

  • Nelson: Sam Phillips was a small-town boy with big-city ambition

    It’s called the music business for a reason, and from the beginning, Sam Phillips’ never-ceasing struggle was to make records he loved while keeping his shoestring operation financially solvent.

    By Michael Nelson June 18, 2019

• January 2019

  • Hotel Indigo Memphis readies slice of authenticity for 2019 debut

    The Hotel Indigo in Downtown Memphis has begun taking reservations for the New Year as a $15 million project to retrofit a former Holiday Inn winds toward conclusion.

    By Wayne Risher January 11, 2019