Memphis @ 200
Yearlong bicentennial series will explore city’s past, present and future
A jogger passes the Tom Lee memorial located in the riverside park in Downtown Memphis named after the local hero who rescued 32 people from a sinking steamboat in 1925. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Truck and train traffic pass over the Mississippi River at the Highway 55 bridge on Feb. 27, 2019. The river was expected to crest the week of March 3 at 41 feet, the fourth-highest level on record for the Memphis area. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
A FedEx plane passes low over Shelby Drive as it lands at Memphis International Airport. Mainly due to the presence of the FedEx hub, Memphis International is the world's second-largest cargo airport. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Liz Marlow and her son Ryan Malow, 3, hunt through the Piggly Wiggly exhibit at the Pink Palace Museum, looking for a checklist of dry goods on Feb. 28, 2019. Founded in Memphis by Clarence Saunders in 1916, Piggly Wiggly was the first self-service grocery store with shopping carts, individual pricing and check-out counters. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Cortavius Thompson (left) and Duke Warren play a game of one-on-one at the pop-up park in the parking lot of Beale Street Landing as barge traffic passes by on the Mississippi River. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Survey technician Donnie Armstrong with the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, conducts a daily river patrol on Feb, 27, 2019, to monitor river depth and levee conditions as the Mississippi reaches high flood stages. The river was expected to crest the week of March 3 at 41 feet, the fourth-highest level on record for the Memphis area. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
A yearlong series of stories will chronicle the past, present and future of Memphis as part of the city's bicentennial celebration in 2019.
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Ron Maxey is a Memphis native with 45 years of journalism experience in the city and surrounding area.
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