There are 4 article(s) tagged Willy Bearden:

• May 2022

  • Meet Willy Bearden, fillmmaker, storyteller and limo-rider

    Willy Bearden, who has been making movies and documentaries, writing scripts and stories and producing events of all kinds all over the world, is on this week’s edition of The Sidebar. 

    By Eric Barnes May 04, 2022

• August 2020

  • This year ‘ghosts’ of Elmwood can visit you at home

    Some of the Memphis figures buried at Elmwood Cemetery star in a film by Willy Bearden that will be streamed Oct. 10. Bearden's documentary includes a key role for himself as a former mayor of Memphis. 

    By Chris Herrington August 10, 2020

• January 2020

  • Conaway: A life chock-full

    On Saturday, there will be a memorial service for Norman Blackley – “Cap” to so many – at the Memphis Botanic Garden. The place will be chock-full of stories. And gratitude.

    By Dan Conaway January 24, 2020

• September 2019

  • Conaway: A Memphis life, saved in India

    This country has the best medical care in the world, and only money and insurance makes it readily available, with few and far-between exceptions like St. Jude.

    By Dan Conaway September 13, 2019