There are 7 article(s) tagged Willy Bearden:

• August 2024

  • The Sidebar: Willy Bearden on his memoir

    The Memphis historian describes his new book as Mississippi Delta pool hall existentialism.

    By Eric Barnes August 06, 2024

• July 2023

  • Bearden: Three Months On: The Rolling Fork Tornado

    “What is emerging in Rolling Fork is a story of both optimism and uncertainty. Can this community, which was already struggling, come back?”

    By Willy Bearden July 24, 2023

• March 2023

  • Of small towns and tragedies: Memories of Rolling Fork before the tornado

    “I’m from Rolling Fork, Mississippi, in what I like to call the Deep Delta. It is the place that made me. It is the place that gave me the confidence to do all the things I’ve dreamed of and accomplished.”

    By Willy Bearden March 28, 2023

• 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