ASK VANCE
BY VANCE LAUDERDALE
from
the publishers of Memphis magazine
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The best questions and answers from Memphis magazine's history
and trivia expert, Vance Lauderdale. This book contains more than
50 columns that originally appeared in the pages of Memphis magazine
from September 1995 to the present day. Fully
illustrated and indexed, Ask Vance uncovers compelling mysteries
in and around Memphis. The cost per copy is $25; price includes
applicable taxes, shipping and handling.
Just some of the fascinating mysteries you'll explore are:
- The pair of empty graves in Historic Elmwood Cemetery
- The children's faces carved above a doorway at Idlewild Presbyterian
Church
- The log cabin concealed withinthe walls of a Rhodes College sorority
house
- Memphian Roy Noe's patented secret to "prosperity, health, and
happiness"
- The hazard of the time capsule buried at the Mid-South Fairgrounds
- The "bomb" planted in the front yard of a home in East Memphis
- The sculpture in Overton Park that was called "a vicious beast"
Ask Vance has received a first-place Green Eyeshade Award for
humorous commentary in an 11-state competition hosted by the Atlanta Chapter
of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a first-place Award of Distinguished
Journalism for the Mid_South Professional Chapter of the SPJ.