Calkins: What brought you to Memphis?

For St. Jude’s Penny DeGoosh, it was something she found on her late father’s desk

By , Daily Memphian Published: May 01, 2019 6:22 PM CT
<strong>How did you come to Memphis? Were you born here and decided to stay? Or did you leave and decide to come back? Maybe it was pure chance you wound up in Memphis. Maybe it was by design.&nbsp;</strong>(Daily Memphian file)

How did you come to Memphis? Were you born here and decided to stay? Or did you leave and decide to come back? Maybe it was pure chance you wound up in Memphis. Maybe it was by design. (Daily Memphian file)

Geoff Calkins
Daily Memphian

Geoff Calkins

Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.

What brought you to Memphis? We’d love to hear. For St. Jude’s Penny DeGoosh, it was something she found while going through her father’s estate in Vermont. 

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