Guest Column: My Friend, Memphis
Cars and trucks zip across the Mississippi River along Interstate 40. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Kemp Conrad
Kemp Conrad served on the Memphis City Council from 2009 to 2019 and was elected chair twice by his peers, in 2016 and 2019. He is a principal at Commercial Advisors LLC and serves on the Board of Directors of Pure Youth Academy, a State of Tennessee non-public Category 1 boarding school.
Gina Weathersby
Gina Weathersby is a wife, mother of two, an avid marathoner, and cyclist. She is a commercial real estate manager and has lived in Memphis for over 20 years.
Memphis weeps for the beautiful lives and souls of those cut short by monsters. Yet all of this — all the horrors and the beauty — are a byproduct of the same place. A juxtaposition that is difficult to comprehend.
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