TUPELO, MS ‒ The distance from here to Memphis, Tennessee, is about 115 miles ‒ an easily traveled span of wooded hills and sunbaked asphalt, churches and truck stops, strip malls and at least one ...
In 1956, Elvis Presley returned to his hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, wearing a navy blue shirt his mother made for him. He sang to an appreciative crowd at the Tupelo Fairgrounds, and the mayor ...
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Declan Fassler, 6 years old and grinning, struck a pose with his new Savannah brand acoustic guitar. His three siblings crowded around. Sebastian, a 4-year-old mischief-maker, couldn’t resist plucking ...
In January 1945, Gladys Presley took her son Elvis into Tupelo Hardware Company in his Mississippi hometown to pick out a gift for his eleventh birthday. He tried to talk her into a .22 caliber rifle, ...
The Twitterization of history, and with it, culture, is a trend that deeply worries Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, the Danish music enthusiast and archivist who’s been overseeing Elvis Presley’s recorded ...