Conaway: Southern river towns — dark waters, new currents
Before trains, airplaines or internet, the Mississippi River (where a passerby photographed ice at sunset Feb. 19, 2021) connected Memphis to ports around the world. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
‘People in river towns understand better than most that nothing good happens when the flow stops, worse still, if it flows backwards.’
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