Mid-South Features

By Candice Ludlow

By Rob Grayson

Memphis, TN – "I walk a lonely street." A five-word goodbye note addressed to no one. No ID on the victim, so the author of that efficient summation of a life of quiet desperation remains a mystery. Not unnoticed and not forgotten, though, as the song the five words inspired haunts us to this day.

By Rob Grayson

By Michael Hibblen

Little Rock, AR – This weekend an opera that looks at the Arkansas childhood of future president Bill Clinton will premiere in New York City. Michael Hibblen from KUAR in Little Rock spoke with the woman behind the project.

The opera has been five years in the making and is set in Bill Clinton's boyhood hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

By Candice Ludlow

Memphis, TN – StoryCorps is a national oral history project based on the idea that ordinary people tell the most extraordinary stories of our time. Here, Fred Davis tells his friend Timothy Russell about his run for Memphis City Council.