User:Zantastik/Orange Mound notes

Notes for the upcoming Orange Mound article

Web-based sources

 * Commercial Development Potential In the Orange Mound Neighborhood -- a study done at the University of Memphis.


 * Orange Mound Community Garden Project
 * Memphis Flyer interview with Alcene Arnette (an elderly resident) and others about the neighborhood and the community garden


 * Orange Mound Collaborative - neighborhood association website
 * Orange Mound Connection - the Orange Mound Collaborative newsletter (all the articles listed online appear to be about 5 years old)

Books

 * Education and community assessment, Orange Mound neighborhood, Memphis, TN. Elmer Dean Butler and Carol P. Etheridge. University of Memphis. 1993.
 * An early history of Orange Mound Day Nursery Marian Brown ; edited by Barbara Turner. Memphis, Tenn. 1992.

Perodicals

 * Orange Mound Connection(at main library)
 * Memphis Press Scimitar
 * Tri-State Defender
 * Commercial Appeal

Articles
October, 1993. Yacoubian Research. Collaborative.
 * Neighborhood & Family Initiative Survey: The Orange Mound Neighborhood, Memphis, TN.
 * The Neighborhood & Family Initiative: Orange Mound Perceptions. 1993. The Orange Mound
 * Oral History Project is Open Mike for Voices of Experience. Pamela Perkins. August 12, 1999. The Commercial Appeal
 * Orange Mound 'A special place' and how it came to be. Tri-State Defender. Arthur L. Webb. December 31, 2003.

Interviews
to complete

Possible candidates

 * Tyler Glover `The Mayor of Orange Mound.'

Places to visit

 * Orange Mound Community Service Center
 * Orange Mound Park
 * Orange Mound Grill
 * Orange Mound Development Center -- 989 Tunstall Street Memphis, TN 38114 (E-mail: omdevcorp@aol.com)
 * Orange Mound Neighborhood Association
 * Area churches
 * Deadrick cemetary

General Notes
"Orange Mound was named such b/c there was an abundance of Osage Orange trees in the area when it was still rural. I had many Italian relatives who lived and farmed there about 80 years ago." -- verify this.


 * Formally Deadrick Plantation (1000 slaves lived there, many residents descend from them)


 * Google Search for "Orange Mound -- to finish examining

Music

 * Orange Mound Community Choir
 * Orange Mound Records - the website if of little use, though
 * 8 Ball and MJG - well-known rap group from the area
 * DJ Zirk - DJ, producer, rapper

Notable Residents

 * Larry Finch - former basketball player and University of Memphis head coach