Memphis child care: THE Top 10 Daycares in Memphis, TN | Affordable Prices

NEXT Memphis background

NEXT Memphis, at its essence, is for the community. Developed as a response to local research supported by First 8 Memphis, NEXT Memphis is a shared service program model that helps independent childcare providers reduce costs and improve outcomes, so that they can direct more of their attention and resources to the classroom and families.

NEXT Memphis’ model will ensure that more children enter kindergarten ready to learn, that more families are thriving, and that childcare professionals have the resources and care they need to grow in their profession. Through NEXT Memphis, Porter-Leath will offer wraparound services to families, helping parents set and achieve goals and connecting them with community resources.  

Cohort initiative plans

The current total enrollment for the cohort is 800 children, with the potential licensed enrollment of 1,600 children. As one component, NEXT Memphis will focus on boosting enrollment, which will greatly strengthen each center’s sustainability, as well as help more children and families benefit from top-quality care. When fully enrolled, an estimated $7.1M^[1] in additional revenue will be attained for the centers, all of which are Minority/Women-Owned Businesses. Centers will reinvest in quality enhancements for their childcare, such as increased teacher wages and facility improvements.

Since the start of COVID-19, NEXT Memphis has worked with local philanthropy to supply community partners with hard-to-find supplies—such as cleaning solution, gloves, disinfectant, toilet tissue, paper towels, garbage bags, can liners, and bleach—so that centers can continue to safely serve children.

In addition to its local focus, NEXT Memphis has partnered with the Tennessee Department of Human Services to provide comprehensive support and care coordination to families whose children are enrolled in a partner center. These services support families in pursuing their own goals and navigating crisis situations, whenever needed.

As Memphis and Shelby County begin to fully reopen, comprehensive services will begin to ensure that:

• Children thrive in their development and enter kindergarten ready to learn
• Families are supported with wraparound services and quality childcare
• Staff feel completely equipped to increase quality of service and business sustainability

While focusing on its initial cohort of 11 direct partners, NEXT Memphis will add childcare providers to a second and third cohort over the next two years, establishing an estimated partner portfolio of 40 childcare centers and 4,000 children and families by 2022.

“To me, childcare professionals are unsung heroes in our community. The care and services they provide not only allow parents to go to work and/or school, but truly shape the next generation in their most precious years. It is an honor to partner with First 8 Memphis and the philanthropic community to do our part in uplifting Shelby County’s brightest potential,” said Chloe Moore, NEXT Memphis Program Director.

^[1] This estimation is based on figures before COVID-19. It calculates vacancies in February, times the average fee charged, and assumes year-round service (52 weeks).

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Memphis, TN (Childcare & Programs)

There are 984 Daycares in Memphis, Tennessee, serving a population of 654,723 people in an area of 318 square miles. There is 1 Daycare per 665 people, and 1 Daycare per square mile.

In Tennessee, Memphis is ranked 286th of 645 cities in Daycares per capita, and 112nd of 645 cities in Daycares per square mile.

List of Memphis Daycares

Find Memphis, Tennessee daycares and preschools.

1-2-3-Learning Academy

2295 Boyle Avenue

Memphis,
TN

1st Class Montessori School – Esp (-E-)

1336 Peabody Avenue

Memphis,
TN

1st Class Montessori School-Prek (-E-)

1336 Peabody Avenue

Memphis,
TN

2 Steps Ahead Learning Center

4064 Saint Elmo Avenue

Memphis,
TN

A B Hill Elementary – Sacc (-E-)

345 East Olive Avenue

Memphis,
TN

A B Hill Mcs Early Childhood (-E-)

345 East Olive Avenue

Memphis,
TN

A Better Choice Childcare Center

4297 Stage Road

Memphis,
TN

A Brighter Day Dcc

3134 Park Avenue

Memphis,
TN

A C Jackson Day Care Center

960 Fields Road

Memphis,
TN

A Child Shall Lead Them Ccc

4340 Fayette Road

Memphis,
TN

A Children’s Place

2980 Jackson Avenue

Memphis,
TN

A Different World Christian Ccc

5750 Winchester Road

Memphis,
TN

A Learning Experience Academy & P/S

2121 Winchester Road

Memphis,
TN

A Mother’s Wish, Llc North Watkins

3303 North Watkins Street

Memphis,
TN

A New Beginning Child Care Center

2657 Frisco Avenue

Memphis,
TN

A Parent’s Choice Learning Academy

2501 Jackson Avenue

Memphis,
TN

A Step Above Preparatory Day Care Center

4287 Millbranch Road

Memphis,
TN

A. B. Hill Elementary School Pre-K

345 East Olive Avenue

Memphis,
TN

AB Hill Voluntary Pre-K (-E-)

1372 Latham Street

Memphis,
TN

Abc Child Care Center

3280 Park Avenue

Memphis,
TN

Able Academy

3837 South Mendenhall Road

Memphis,
TN

Abundance Of Love Enrichment Center

436 East Raines Road

Memphis,
TN

Abundant Faith Child Dev Center

5645 Spring Lake Road

Memphis,
TN

Adt Child Development Academy

1369 Norris Road

Memphis,
TN

Advanced Learning Academy

880 Thomas Street

Memphis,
TN

Advent Presbyterian Preschool

1879 North Germantown Parkway

Memphis,
TN

Agape Learning Center

2660 Spottswood Avenue

Memphis,
TN

Alcy Elementary School (-E-)

1750 East Alcy Road

Memphis,
TN

Alcy Elementary Voluntary Pre-K #1 (-E-)

1750 East Alcy Road

Memphis,
TN

Alcy Elementary Voluntary Pre-K #2 (-E-)

1750 East Alcy Road

Memphis,
TN

Alcy Seventh-Day Adventist Junior Academ (-E-)

1325 East Alcy Road

Memphis,
TN

Alice Avenue Tiny Tots Child Care, Inc

964 Alice Avenue

Memphis,
TN

All About Love Christian Ccc Ii

3815 Outland Road

Memphis,
TN

All My Children Learning Acad,Inc

940 Mississippi Boulevard

Memphis,
TN

All My Children Preschool

2423 Point Church Avenue

Memphis,
TN

Alpha & Omega Learning Center

1581 Ball Road

Memphis,
TN

Alpha Christian Academy

3515 Boxdale Street

Memphis,
TN

Alpha Visions Learning Academy, Inc.

4379 Stage Road

Memphis,
TN

Alton Elementary – Sacc (-E-)

2020 Alton Avenue

Memphis,
TN

Alton Elementary School Pre-K

2020 Alton Avenue

Memphis,
TN

Alton Elementary Voluntary Pre-K (-E-)

2020 Alton Avenue

Memphis,
TN

Altruria Elementary Pre-K

6641 Deermont Drive

Memphis,
TN

American Way Middle – Sacc (-E-)

3805 American Way

Memphis,
TN

Amor Child Care

2600 Poplar Avenue

Memphis,
TN

An Awesome Learning Academy, Inc.

4402 Stage Road

Memphis,
TN

Angel Child Development Center

1555 McAlister Drive

Memphis,
TN

Angels Of The Future Lrng Academy

2343 Elvis Presley Boulevard

Memphis,
TN

Ann’s Christian Academy

2730 Colony Park Drive

Memphis,
TN

Annesdale Enrichment Center

1671 Euclid Avenue

Memphis,
TN

Apple Tree Child Care Center

3191 Barron Avenue

Memphis,
TN

Daycares near Memphis

• Use My Location
• Southaven
• Germantown
• Horn Lake
• Cordova
• Bartlett
• Olive Branch
• West Memphis
• Marion
• Nesbit
• Walls
• Collierville
• Millington
• Hernando
• Lakeland
• Edmondson
• Lake Cormorant
• Eads
• Arlington

Other Memphis Offices

• Animal Hospitals
• Animal Shelters
• Child, Youth, and Family Services
• Daycares
• Food Stamp Offices
• Goodwill Stores
• Housing Authorities
• Salvation Army Stores
• Social Security Offices
• Social Services Departments
• Veterans Affairs Departments
• Victim Assistance Centers
• WIC Offices

Early Enrichment Center | CAFE Idlewild

The Early Enrichment Center

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About

The Early Enrichment Center at Idlewild is located in the
heart of midtown Memphis and offers early enrichment for
children 6 weeks through age 4, an after-school program, a
summer camp program, and myriad opportunities for parent
involvement.

First and foremost, we love children. We believe in the life-
shaping impact of earliest brain development and want to
provide a model for our city that involves children growing in
diversity from infancy. Believing that vital to early childhood
development is “talk, touch, read, play,” EEC will offer

children a loving, creative, safe, and stimulating care
environment.

Recent studies prove that by age three babies brains are 80%
developed, so those first years are vital to rearing healthy,
resilient, and creative children. The EEC will be based in
cutting-edge research on brain development to engender
social-emotional growth, self-regulation, and creativity.
EEC is a center where young children of all backgrounds will
develop healthy relationships. Babies come into the world
with no judgment, bias, or fear of the world. The EEC is
committed to encouraging a community, based on childhood
wonder, innocence, and grace. We are excited to welcome
children of every race, family configuration, socio-economic
background, and religion. We know that beginning with
a diverse community in the earliest stages will strengthen, not
just children but also families and the larger community in which we live.

Email us at [email protected]​

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Tuition

• $275/week for 6 weeks through 2 years

• $250/week for 3 year olds from 7:00am to 3:00pm

• $275/ week for 3 year olds from 7:00am to 6:00pm 

Hours

7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

We are dedicated to serving your child and your family in a warm, nurturing environment. Our community is a place for your child to grow and learn surrounded by love.

Our curriculum focuses on the following pillars:

The Creative Curriculum places emphasis on supporting the social-emotional development of children throughout the year. The Creative Curriculum focuses on supporting the whole child, because we know that success isn’t only about making progress in math and literacy. By equally focusing on social-emotional development, we can help children to successfully manage their emotions, build relationships with other children, feel safe, and learn classroom rules and routines.

Research shows an undeniably strong connection between early relationships in school and later behavior and learning. The Creative Curriculum makes it easier for teachers to assess children’s social–emotional development accurately and support their growth and competence in this area.  The Creative Curriculum provides a guide to assist teachers in supporting social–emotional development in conjunction with providing students with a solid academic foundation. The Creative Curriculum is backed by 40 years of research and innovation in early childhood education.

Grounded in current child development theory and research, the The Creative Curriculum is evidence-based. Its framework for understanding and supporting young children’s learning is based on developmental checkpoints that align with TN Early Learning Developmental Standards (TN-ELDs).

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Application Process

1. Submit the $50 payment through our website.

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2. You will receive an application via email to fill out and instructions on who to email it back to.

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3. You will be notified by email of acceptance or placement on the wait list.

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3. If you receive an acceptance email for placement, you will have 48 hours to notify EEC if you would like to move forward with enrollment. If you choose to accept and enroll your child, you will have one week to pay your deposit (one week’s tuition) via the website/app Brightwheel, our childcare management software program. This will officially reserve your child’s place and will be applied to your final week’s tuition and fees. If your deposit is not received within two weeks, the spot will be reassigned to another child.
Families may opt to “hold” an opening for their child if an opening becomes available prior to their need for care. In order to do so, families are required to pay tuition and fees for each week for a maximum of two weeks. If families opt not to pay to hold the opening, the child will be put back on the end of the wait list.

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The Early Enrichment Center looks forward to the opportunity to serve your child and your family. If you are ready to enroll or want to learn more about enrollment, feel free to contact us with the form below.

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You can also email us at [email protected]

Read online A Challenge to Memphis by Peter Taylor – LitRes

Peter Taylor

A Summons to Memphis

Published with permission from THE KNOPF DOUBLEDAY GROUP, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC

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© 1986 by Peter Taylor. This translation published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.

© Translation into Russian, Russian edition, designed by Mann, Ivanov & Ferber LLC, 2020

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Eleanor, Cathy and Ross, with love

The courtship and remarriage of an old widower is always complicated if adult children are involved, especially unmarried daughters. Forty years ago, this was exactly what happened in Memphis, a deeply provincial city without access to the sea. At the very least, it is undeniable that it was harder for old widowers to remarry in Memphis than in Nashville or, say, Knoxville – or even in Chattanooga, for that matter. It is enough to know at least a little of these cities for all doubts to disappear. However, it is impossible to explain with the same certainty why this difficulty was so characteristic of Memphis, except perhaps because life in it, unlike other cities in Tennessee, revolves around the earth to this day. There, almost every decent person still owns his own plot. Whether it’s in Arkansas, or West Tennessee, or the Mississippi Delta. And perhaps, in a matter where the earth is involved, any family problems cannot help but become intricate, reckless, desperate.

Anyway, when I was a teenager and just moved from Nashville to Memphis, I often heard about some elderly widower whose vigilant adult children would go to any lengths to save him from an ill-considered second marriage. In such cases, the bride-to-be was often tried in every possible way to denigrate in front of everyone who was ready to listen. If things got completely out of control, the question of the sanity of the old widower was often raised. Adult children themselves were either pitied or ridiculed for the simple reason that now, of course, they would be left without an inheritance. To my family, who had recently moved to Memphis from Nashville, this seemed vulgar and ridiculous in the highest degree. We are not accustomed to people giving such publicity to their personal problems. In fact, my father did not even think about moving to Memphis. This would not have happened if in Nashville he had not been deceived and almost brought to ruin by his closest friend and main client, a certain Mr. Lewis Shackleford. But it turned out that my father did not want to live in the same city with such a treacherous and dishonest man as Lewis Shackleford. The father himself was a high-class lawyer and knew that his reputation would be known in Memphis even before his arrival. So he quietly moved his wife and four children to the banks of the Mississippi, where we as members of his family had to get used to the idiosyncratic local customs associated with the cotton and river culture of the Deep South. Both the move itself and the need to adjust required serious efforts and in one way or another laid a heavy burden on everyone. But on the whole, everything went quietly and without fanfare, in the best traditions of the Upper South. There was nothing from the Deep South in our family – an important difference in our own eyes. The father then did not publicly renounce the man who betrayed him and forced him to move. It’s just that his name was banned from our new Memphis home.

Almost immediately after moving to Memphis, news reached our Nashville family about a neighbor, a wealthy old widower who got it into his head to marry again, because of which his own, now grown-up children, began to condemn and oppress him in every possible way. The image of this old man I have kept in my memory until now – as a kind of symbol of Memphis itself: the rich old father of the family, whose will is a secret to no one, suddenly decided to marry again and thereby completely violated the plans of all interested parties – an extremely selfish act without any thoughts about family traditions and about what his descendants will think of him. To complete this picture of the symbolic Memphis situation in my head, of course, adult children—and perhaps already grown grandchildren—are inevitably brought to the forefront to declare indignantly that they would not tolerate such a step on the part of an old widower—rich and selfish , because he cares more about his own pleasure and comfort than the name and honor of the family. Alas, we observed a similar picture very often in the first years of our life there, on the banks of the Mississippi.

When my elderly mother died two years ago, it never occurred to me at first that we would have similar difficulties. After all, we weren’t a real Memphis family. We lived in Memphis for only thirty years. Moreover, there were no grandchildren in the family – whose name is usually used to justify the behavior of children and all attacks on the head of the family. And my father got rid of his land holdings in northwest Tennessee a long time ago. In addition, I myself lived in Manhattan for more than twenty years. Such a prospect seemed very remote to me. My only brother died a long time ago, in World War II. And two unmarried older sisters ran their own successful businesses. They seemed to be too proud and fond of their father to openly criticize any of his courses of action.

The bottom line is that just a few weeks after the mother’s funeral, the sisters began jokingly teasing their father about the ladies he knew, who with enviable regularity invited him to dinner. It seemed like a pretty healthy sign to me. My closest friend in Memphis, Alex Mercer, wrote to me at the time that he admired the behavior of Betsy and Josephine. There was no indication that they would take on any kind of custodial or proprietary role, Alex assured them. And then, two or three months later, Alex wrote to me again to express admiration for my sisters. Meanwhile, the old man’s social life took a new turn. My venerable father began to appear in nightclubs and bars – and, of course, not with old ladies, but with “young girls” – a completely different kind than the ladies who invited him to dinner. My friend Alex, as one of the main admirers of his father, was shocked and somewhat touched by this behavior. But as for my sisters, middle-aged ladies, they seemed to be delighted with the new twist. And it seemed to me especially pleasant. In letters, they even expressed the hope that I would show no less breadth of views. It seemed to me that this was the most pleasant opportunity to reflect. Can you ask for more? Everything was arranged in an unusually civilized manner. But when, two months later, the situation changed again, and the father began to pay attention to a respectable but ordinary schoolteacher named Mrs. Clara Stockwell – where he met her, the sisters did not know – Betsy and Josephine began to speak very differently. It was then that I, already living in Manhattan, received a call from both sisters – each separately – and began to persistently persuade me to immediately fly to Memphis to help prevent the fatal mistake of my old father. I must say, now the behavior of the sisters reminded me of the same old Memphis ways. I just couldn’t believe that all this was happening since us – both in our time and in a place like modern Memphis: no longer a town of two hundred thousand inhabitants, but a vast metropolis where about nine hundred thousand people lived.

Calls from each of the sisters—first one, twenty minutes later the second—rang out in the darkness of a Sunday March evening when I was alone in my Manhattan apartment. I did not immediately decide to go to Memphis the next day and from the very beginning I was not sure that I wanted to participate in the sisters’ campaign against my father. Of course, I was struck by the sudden change in their mood, but to some extent it seemed understandable. Old ladies and young girls certainly did not pose as much of a threat to a father’s bachelorhood as a sensible woman like Mrs. Clara Stockwell. Still, I wanted to know, regardless of all the speculative excuses, what actions Betsy and Josephine were going to take. It seemed to me that they lacked the resources that adult children once had. In other words, the child authority in dealing with the elderly was no longer what it used to be. And yet, in the course of telephone conversations that Sunday twilight, I heard the same ancient anger in the voices of the sisters, and therefore I began to worry about the well-being of my father.

As I said, I was alone in my apartment when the bells rang, and this lonely situation at the time is worth mentioning. It greatly influenced the final decision to fly to Memphis. You must understand that my life in New York was very different from our family’s life in Memphis. I left my father’s house when I was under thirty years old, a young man who had recently returned from the Second World War. For several years now I have lived in the current apartment with Holly Kaplan (Holly is fifteen years younger than me, and I was forty-nine at the time of those events). But Holly had moved out the previous Sunday. Moved out after ten years of living together. I say this to explain why I was in the state in which I was, and why I reacted to the news about my father in the way I reacted. In fact, Holly Kaplan returned to me just a few weeks after the events described, and since then we have lived inseparably with her in relative prosperity: she continues to work in the magazine, and I am more than ever passionate about collecting rare books and editing at the publishing house, with whom I have worked for twenty years. Our orderly life together—mine and Holly—still differs as much as possible from my family’s life in Memphis, or, for that matter, Holly’s Jewish family in Cleveland.

Anyway, over the past few months, Holly and I have been harassing each other endlessly and arguing – seemingly over trifles. It seems to me that our case was another example of a mid-life crisis, as it happens both for reasonable people like us living together unmarried in New York, and for less fortunate people languishing in an unsuccessful marriage somewhere in Memphis or Cleveland. When the phone calls from my sisters started that Sunday, it had been dog cold outside for a week and snowing for half a day. The sidewalks were littered with ugly gray drifts frozen to the ground. I had no desire to go out. Betsy’s phone rang at exactly five o’clock, on a dreary Sunday twilight. Less than twenty minutes after it was over, Joe called.

I haven’t left my apartment for two days. When I wasn’t working with manuscripts and galleys, I tried to figure out what went wrong between me and Holly. None of us knew what exactly let us down, why serene coexistence ceased to bring us pleasure. We spent weeks and months going over the details of our systematic and orderly life, thinking of finding the problem in some element that is probably too obvious to see it at first glance.

We accused each other of being interested in someone on the side. Indeed, there was a girl in my publishing house, a new one, whom I found very attractive. I tried to examine my own motives and see if I subconsciously allowed this fact to influence my behavior with Holly. But nothing like that. Probably Holly also examined her motives and clearly considered herself innocent. One way or another, it seemed that we could only part temporarily. Only two or three days after Holly left, I already knew that I would not get anything from separation. I imagined that I would spend the rest of my life in solitude – as I spent the first years in New York. So I saw how every morning I trudge along the small corridor from the bedroom to the kitchen and back to the office, I sit down to work without saying a word to anyone. (I never went to the publishing house in the morning.) A bleak prospect. I could no longer bear the sight of that new girl in the office. And the worst time, of course, was the weekend. It was under these circumstances that I received calls from Memphis.

When the phone rang and I heard Betsy, I realized that I had never been so pleased with my sister’s voice. But at the same time, I was puzzled and embarrassed, because Betsy and Josephine Carver belonged to a generation for which a long distance call, if it was not about business matters, meant only one thing. Namely, a family crisis, and this is putting it mildly. My sisters are from a generation that grew up during the vicissitudes of the Great Depression. And these vicissitudes had a severe impact on our family. It resulted – through Mr. Lewis Shackleford, my father’s cheat and traitor – in a move from a magnificent estate on Franklin Pike south of Nashville to a simple town house in downtown Memphis. No matter how wealthy the father and sisters have since gained, Betsy and Joe have never outlived the habit of saving: they turned off the light in an empty room, did not leave the stove when leaving the house, did not make unnecessary long-distance calls. In soul and mind they were still living in the days of the Depression of the thirties. This may have contributed to the incredible success they had with their family insurance and real estate agency. But I cannot speak about this with certainty, since I am not a businessman myself. Of course, I am from the same generation as my sisters, but, let’s say, of a completely different temperament and, perhaps, young enough not to feel the full force of the lessons of the Depression. When I heard my sister’s voice, I immediately asked: “Is something wrong, Betsy?” There was a silence, and in the silence that followed, I could almost see her face, especially her mouth, as she bit first her upper lip and then her lower lip, deciding whether to tell the news gradually or all at once. Apparently, she stopped at the first.

“Yes, Philip,” she announced, raising her voice an entire octave. – It’s about my father.

There was silence again. And then, it seems, I experienced a certain joy. In the long lonely week after Holly left, I was so discouraged that for a few moments I was sincerely glad that someone, somewhere in Memphis, was also in trouble. Then I told myself that it’s not just that. Rather, I was just happy to somehow escape from the gloomy thoughts of a future lonely life. It seemed to me that there was no way I could convince another young woman like Holly Kaplan to live with me. Bald patches, bad posture, unkempt clothes – everything was against me. And so, answering, I quickly changed intonation. I wanted to relax and have fun.

– What is it, Betsy? I asked. – What could happen?

Now it’s Betsy’s turn to take a break. She considered again how best to present the news. These hesitations were in themselves a cause for concern, because both sisters, as a rule, did not go into their pocket for a word. Finally, she could no longer restrain herself and went straight to the point:

– Father, Philip. Your father plans to marry.

To be honest, I burst out laughing. My father. As if all his life he had not been more of a father to Betsy and Josephine than to mine! But it’s still half the trouble. My father was eighty-one years old, he suffered from many ailments that come with age. How not to laugh, imagining him as a groom? Still, I realized that I had acted rudely and tactlessly, and when Josephine called a little later, I was already prepared and behaved with restraint. At first, however, the very thought struck me as amusing for several reasons. First, I felt funny when I remembered the ridiculous picture that arose from recent letters from Betsy and Joe: each wrote to me about two of our father’s pastimes – about evenings with old ladies and about nights in the city – with young women (the letters seemed undisguised humorous). Secondly, according to my many years of imagination, he was a father, husband and a man of such natural or acquired authority that his children could not even think of such an important step as a wedding without his advice or blessing – or rather, not resigned to his inevitable rejection of a potential applicant. You see, none of his four children ever married. And now the two unmarried daughters are about to have the last word on his wedding plans. I could not explain the reason for my laughter to Betsy. But when she did not support me, I said:

– And who is this unfortunate chosen one? – At such a moment it was difficult to avoid irony. There was another pause, and then I heard:

– Phil, this is no joke. This is Mrs. Clara Stockwell. She lives near Germantown, not far from our mom and dad’s house.

For the first time, one of the sisters remembered her mother in the context of her father’s nightlife. And now Betsy spoke in such a tone as if her mother was still alive and remained in the huge one-story country house that her father had built so that they would spend their future old age there together. This mention intrigued me a little. It seemed to me that it denoted a new mood in the views of my sister. But still, I still did not worry about anything and could not express the interest that was expected of me – although, of course, I thought about money. And I told myself that if anything here interests me at all, it is only my father’s money. I told myself that perhaps I was beginning to understand the feelings of other sons and daughters of elderly Memphis widowers. How was I to know? Perhaps one day all his fortune will go to his future wife. And least of all I understood my own feelings about it.

But I certainly wasn’t scandalized by my father’s behavior. I searched in my mind for a suitable answer to Betsy. I have never been able to talk on the phone. Then Betsy herself said, and in such a tone, as if it had just dawned on her: “These pauses are expensive, Philip.” And then she began to insist on my coming to Memphis. She said that I must definitely arrive tomorrow. And when Sister Josephine called, everything happened again. They seemed to coordinate their efforts in advance. Their main task was to get me on board the plane to Memphis the very next morning. From Joe’s call—which came so soon after talking to Betsy that I hadn’t even left the phone yet—I only learned that Mrs. Stockwell was planning to join Joe, Betsy, and her father for dinner at the Memphis Country Club. And later it seemed to me that the second task in Betsy and Joe’s strategy was to give me as little information as possible about Mrs. Clara Stockwell herself.

After the second phone call, I continued to sit by the phone on the loggia. It was already completely dark when I finally turned on the light and went into the office. I could see my father at this very moment—although, of course, Memphis is an hour ahead of Manhattan—walking through the twilight shadows of his country house while twenty blocks away his two daughters were talking to me on the phone and planning to repair obstacles on the way to his, must be, the main current goal in life. I seem to be completely indifferent. I thought only: “Oh, the manners of Memphis!” And he felt a surge of joy that he had already got out of there a long time ago.

Still, I was tempted to find out something more concrete about how these women planned to turn against the old man. Digging through my memory, I began to recall the hardships of old widowers, which I heard about when we first settled in Memphis. Several names readily came to mind – both names and the unfortunate fates of their owners. For example, there was such a Mr. Joel Manning. He became one of the first victims, after which I began to pay attention to such stories. When Mr. Joel expressed a desire to marry, his children went so far as to drag the old man to court. (Unfortunately for him, all his sons worked as lawyers.) And there, in court – before the whole world, so to speak – the children declared their father incompetent. The lawyer sons got their way, although a whole host of Mr. Joel’s old friends testified under oath that Mr. Joel Manning was of sound mind—or at least, as one of his old and trusted friends put it, “just as good as ever.” (That’s how, I’m afraid, old friends come to the rescue at the moment of danger.)

You will say that this is not the best description of the court system in Memphis, but you don’t know everything yet. Still sitting by the phone as dusk fell outside, I found myself recalling the commanding image of Colonel Comus Fielding. When Colonel Fielding was about to marry a second time, his three daughters (all spouses of prominent Memphis doctors) sent their own father to a private hospital – as it was then customary to call such places. And there they locked him until the end of his days. Moreover, in a private hospital – of course, at the direction of his sons-in-law, doctors – only men were allowed to visit the colonel, and even widows and spinsters from among his closest relatives were deprived of this right. And what does this tell us, may I ask, about the medical profession in Memphis, about its lofty ideals and procedures?

As I continued to sit by the phone, already in complete darkness, another example came to mind: the case of a certain Judge Joe Murray Gaston, long since retired from the judiciary. Judge Gaston, at the remarkable age of ninety-six, declared the unheard-of intention of marrying his North American-Irish housekeeper, a woman who had been discharged from Boston solely to care for him in his old age. Immediately after the announcement of his desire to marry this housekeeper, the children of Judge Gaston (all well over sixty) banished the elderly patriarch to his own cotton farm in Mississippi, placing for the few remaining years under the care of two rude farm laborers who made up the entire population of the “mansion on plantations” (as it was euphemistically called), which, of course, was beyond all reach of the predators of the city of Memphis.

Although I am primarily interested in the current events in my family’s life, there are still some moments of the past that will have to be reconstructed in order to fully comprehend what has happened now. For example, it is absolutely necessary to tell something about my father’s breakup with Mr. Lewis Shackleford in Nashville and explain how this breakup affected my sisters, the life of my mother and late brother, and, ultimately, my life with Holly Kaplan. And I cannot resist the opportunity to emphasize that the evils that people like Lewis Shackleford do are people who come to power either through military force, or through the preaching of the Word of God, or through the manipulation of municipal bonds, as in the case of Mr. Shackleford , – applies not only to the immediate victims (at the time of murder, lies or fraud), but also to many generations of people in all subsequent millennia. As an example, who would have thought that Mr. Lewis Shackleford’s atrocities would one day affect poor Holly Kaplan, a Jewish woman from Cleveland, Ohio, who had just been born during my family’s flight from Nashville? If this seems like an unnecessary digression in my family history, it at least gives some idea of ​​the excitement I feel to this day when I myself say the name of Lewis Shackleford.

More than forty years ago, in 1931, my father, after that unfortunate twist of fate in Nashville, decided—for better or for worse—to move his family to Memphis and continue his law practice there. This will seem like a trifle to a person unfamiliar with the differences that exist between these two cities in the views of local residents. Naturally, this was a trifle and was ; and yet for everyone in the Carver family—with the possible exception of the father himself—the move came at the most unfortunate age imaginable. Perhaps his mother – who was in her forties and had never lived outside of Nashville – was most detrimentally affected, although we did not see it then. She was the one who kept our spirits up. Thanks to her ironic mindset and knowledge of local history, she compared the move to various events during the development of Tennessee. We were like the Donelson party on a trip down the Tennessee River, passing through flocks of swans at Moccasin Bend. We were like the Watauga tribe that went to the Holston River for the Great Powwow0095 [1] on Long Island. Or—that was what she liked best—we were like the Cherokee driven out of their ancestral lands along the infamous Trail of Tears. I think our move was a disaster for everyone except my father. Somehow, in the midst of the Great Depression, he successfully moved his practice to Memphis and resumed his professional life. I think this was possible because many businessmen in Memphis knew that in Nashville my father was deceived by a man whom he trusted and admired more than anyone else. There can be no two opinions: a fair part of the cases in Memphis came to him from people who identified themselves with him – another innocent and honest victim of Mr. Lewis Shackleford. After all, Mr. Shackleford’s financial empire extended far beyond the city limits of Nashville—well, for that matter, far beyond the borders of Tennessee. His father’s reputation as an honest man, deceived by a common enemy, accompanied him and, of course, could not damage his position as a lawyer in Memphis. And even more sympathy from the public was caused by the firm unwillingness of the father to discuss with anyone the character of Lewis Shackleford or his notorious manner of “playing with other people’s money.” Such devotion as that of a father was to be valued in a lawyer, and his restraint perhaps even more so. He soon expanded his practice in Memphis to such an extent that he hardly had time to reminisce about good old Nashville in the twenties or meditate on the wounds inflicted on him by a friend.

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The Big Cypress Lodge is located in the famous Memphis Pyramids. It features a 24-hour fitness centre, private parking and a terrace. The resort is around 2.5 km from Orpheus Theater and 2.6 km from Autozone Park. Free Wi-Fi is provided. Guests can grab a bite to eat at one of the hotel’s 2 restaurants, or relax at the bar.

All rooms at the resort are equipped with a seating area and a flat-screen TV. The private bathroom has a bathtub. Air-conditioned rooms at Big Cypress Lodge are fitted with a work desk.

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Read Challenge to Memphis online in full📖 by Peter Taylor – MyBook.



Peter Taylor

A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS

, cover design Tatyana Rossolenko, Maxim Zimin, Polina Shueva (Cosmos design studio)

Taylor, Peter

Challenge to Memphis / Peter Taylor; per. from English S. Karpova. – M. : Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2020.

ISBN 978-5-00169-183-9

New York editor Philip Carver goes home to provincial Memphis. The widowed father wants to remarry, and Philip’s sisters ask for help to prevent this marriage.

Return to Memphis makes the hero plunge into memories: the move, which had a heavy impact on family members, the primacy of the father and mutual misunderstanding.

The family history unfolds before Philip’s eyes, acquires dramatic details and opens from a new perspective.

The action takes place against the background of the American South, the customs of which are conveyed with knowledge, irony and love.

Peter Taylor is a classic of American literature. He received the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Academy Medal, and the O. Henry Award for his work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the copyright holders.

© 1986 by Peter Taylor. This translation published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.

© Translation into Russian, publication in Russian, registration of LLC Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2020

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An old widower’s courtship and remarriage are always more difficult when adult children are involved, especially unmarried daughters. Forty years ago, this was exactly what happened in Memphis, a deeply provincial city without access to the sea. At the very least, it’s undeniable that it was harder for old widowers to remarry in Memphis than it was in Nashville or, say, Knoxville—or even Chattanooga, for that matter. It is enough to know at least a little of these cities for all doubts to disappear. However, it is impossible to explain with the same certainty why this difficulty was so characteristic of Memphis, except perhaps because life in it, unlike other cities in Tennessee, revolves around the earth to this day. There, almost every decent person still owns his own land. Whether it’s in Arkansas, or West Tennessee, or the Mississippi Delta. And perhaps, in a matter where the earth is involved, any family problems cannot help but become intricate, reckless, desperate.

Anyway, when I was a teenager and just moved from Nashville to Memphis, I often heard about an elderly widower whose vigilant adult children would go to any lengths to save him from an ill-considered second marriage. In such cases, the bride-to-be was often tried in every possible way to denigrate in front of everyone who was ready to listen. If things got completely out of control, the question of the sanity of the old widower was often raised. Adult children themselves were either pitied or ridiculed for the simple reason that now, of course, they would be left without an inheritance. To my family, who had recently moved to Memphis from Nashville, this seemed vulgar and ridiculous in the highest degree. We are not accustomed to people giving such publicity to their personal problems. In fact, my father did not even think about moving to Memphis. This would not have happened if in Nashville he had not been deceived and almost ruined by his closest friend and main client, a certain Mr. Lewis Shackleford. But it turned out that my father did not want to live in the same city with such a treacherous and dishonest man as Lewis Shackleford. The father himself was a high-class lawyer and knew that his reputation would be known in Memphis even before his arrival. So he quietly moved his wife and four children to the shores of the Mississippi, where we as members of his family had to get used to the idiosyncratic local ways that are associated with the cotton and river culture of the Deep South. Both the move itself and the need to adjust required serious efforts and one way or another fell on everyone as a heavy burden. But on the whole, everything went quietly and without fanfare, in the best traditions of the Upper South. There was nothing from the Deep South in our family – an important difference in our own eyes. At that time, my father did not publicly renounce the man who had betrayed him and forced him to move. It’s just that his name was banned in our new Memphis home.

Almost immediately after moving to Memphis, news reached our Nashville family about a neighbor, a wealthy old widower who got it into his head to remarry, because of which his own, now grown-up children, began to condemn and oppress him in every possible way. The image of this old man I have kept in my memory until now – as a kind of symbol of Memphis itself: the rich old father of the family, whose will is a secret to no one, suddenly decided to marry again and thereby completely violated the plans of all interested parties – an extremely selfish act without any thoughts about family traditions and what opinion his descendants will have about him. To complete this picture of the symbolic Memphis situation in my mind, adult children—and perhaps grown-up grandchildren, of course—inevitably come to the fore to declare indignantly that they will not tolerate such a step on the part of an old widower—a rich and selfish , because he cares more about his own pleasure and comfort than the name and honor of the family. Alas, we observed a similar picture very often in the first years of our life there, on the banks of the Mississippi.

When my elderly mother died two years ago, it never occurred to me at first that we would have similar difficulties. After all, we weren’t a real Memphis family. We lived in Memphis for only thirty years. Moreover, there were no grandchildren in the family – whose name is usually used to justify the behavior of children and all attacks on the head of the family. And my father got rid of his land holdings in northwest Tennessee a long time ago. Besides, I myself lived in Manhattan for more than twenty years. Such a prospect seemed very remote to me. My only brother died a long time ago, in World War II. And two unmarried older sisters ran their own successful businesses. They seemed to be too proud and fond of their father to openly criticize any of his courses of action.

The bottom line is that already a few weeks after the mother’s funeral, the sisters began to tease the father jokingly about the ladies he knew, who with enviable regularity invited him to dinner. It seemed like a pretty healthy sign to me. My closest friend in Memphis, Alex Mercer, wrote to me at the time that he admired the behavior of Betsy and Josephine. There is no indication that they will take on any kind of custodial or proprietary role, Alex assured them. And then, two or three months later, Alex wrote to me again to express admiration for my sisters. Meanwhile, the old man’s social life took a new turn. My venerable father began to appear in nightclubs and bars – and, of course, not with old ladies, but with “young girls” – a completely different kind than the ladies who invited him to dinner. My friend Alex, as one of the main admirers of his father, was shocked and somewhat hurt by this behavior. But as for my sisters, middle-aged ladies, they seemed to be delighted with the new twist. And it seemed to me especially pleasant. In letters, they even expressed the hope that I would show no less breadth of views. It seemed to me that this was the most pleasant opportunity to reflect. Can you ask for more? Everything settled down in an extremely civilized manner. But when, after two months, the situation changed again, and the father began to pay attention to a respectable but ordinary schoolteacher named Mrs. Clara Stockwell – where he met her, the sisters did not know – Betsy and Josephine began to speak in a completely different way. It was then that I, already living in Manhattan, received a call from both sisters – each separately – and began to persistently persuade me to immediately fly to Memphis to help prevent the fatal mistake of my old father. I must say, now the behavior of the sisters reminded me of the same old Memphis ways. I just couldn’t believe that all this was happening since us – both in our time and in a place like modern Memphis: no longer a town of two hundred thousand inhabitants, but a vast metropolis where about nine hundred thousand people lived.

Calls from each of the sisters—one at first, then a second twenty minutes later—rang out in the darkness of a Sunday March evening when I was alone in my Manhattan apartment. I did not immediately decide to go to Memphis the next day and from the very beginning I was not sure that I wanted to participate in the sisters’ campaign against my father. Of course, I was struck by the sudden change in their mood, but to some extent it seemed understandable. Old ladies and young girls certainly did not pose as much of a threat to a father’s bachelorhood as a sensible woman like Mrs. Clara Stockwell. And yet I wanted to know, regardless of all the speculative excuses, what actions Betsy and Josephine were going to take. It seemed to me that they lacked the resources that adult children once had. In other words, the child authority in dealing with the elderly was no longer what it used to be. And yet, in the course of telephone conversations on that Sunday twilight, I heard that ancient anger in the voices of the sisters, and therefore I became worried about the well-being of my father.

As I said, I was alone in my apartment when the bells rang, and this lonely situation at the time is worth mentioning. It greatly influenced the final decision to fly to Memphis. You must understand that my life in New York was very different from our family’s life in Memphis. I left my father’s house when I was under thirty years old, a young man who had recently returned from the Second World War. For several years now I have lived in the current apartment with Holly Kaplan (Holly is fifteen years younger than me, and I was forty-nine at the time of those events). But Holly had moved out the previous Sunday. Moved out after ten years of living together. I say this to explain why I was in the state in which I was, and why I reacted to the news about my father in the way I reacted. In fact, Holly Kaplan returned to me just a few weeks after the events described, and since then we have lived inseparably with her in comparative prosperity: she continues to work in the magazine, and I am more than ever passionate about collecting rare books and editing at the publishing house, with whom I have been cooperating for twenty years. Our orderly life together—mine and Holly—still differs as much as possible from my family’s life in Memphis or, for that matter, Holly’s Jewish family in Cleveland.

Anyway, for the past few months, Holly and I have been harassing each other endlessly and arguing – seemingly over trifles. It seems to me that our case was another example of a midlife crisis, as it happens both for reasonable people like us living together unmarried in New York, and for less fortunate people languishing in an unsuccessful marriage somewhere in Memphis or Cleveland. When the phone calls from my sisters started that Sunday, it had been dog cold outside for a week and snowing for half a day. The sidewalks were littered with ugly gray drifts frozen to the ground. I had no desire to go out. Betsy’s phone rang at exactly five o’clock, on a dreary Sunday twilight. Not even twenty minutes after its completion, Joe called.

I haven’t left my apartment for two days. When I wasn’t working with manuscripts and galleys, I tried to figure out what went wrong between me and Holly. None of us knew what exactly let us down, why serene coexistence ceased to bring us pleasure. We spent weeks and months going over the details of our systematic and orderly life, thinking of finding the problem in some element that is probably too obvious to see it at first glance.

We accused each other of being interested in someone on the side. Indeed, there was a girl in my publishing house, a new one, whom I found very attractive. I tried to examine my own motives and understand if I subconsciously allow this fact to influence my behavior with Holly. But nothing like that. Probably Holly also examined her motives and clearly considered herself innocent. One way or another, it seemed that we could only part temporarily. Just two or three days after Holly left, I already knew that I would not get anything from separation. I imagined that I would spend the rest of my life in solitude – as I spent the first years in New York. So I saw how every morning I trudge along the small corridor from the bedroom to the kitchen and back to the office, I sat down to work without saying a word to anyone. (I never went to the publishing house in the morning.) A gloomy prospect. I could no longer bear the sight of that new girl in the office. And the worst time, of course, was the weekend. It was under these circumstances that I received calls from Memphis.

When the phone rang and I heard Betsy, I realized that I had never been so pleased with my sister’s voice. But at the same time, I was puzzled and embarrassed, because Betsy and Josephine Carver belonged to a generation for which a long distance call, if it wasn’t about business matters, meant only one thing. Namely, a family crisis, and this is putting it mildly. My sisters are from a generation that grew up during the vicissitudes of the Great Depression. And these vicissitudes had a severe impact on our family. It resulted, through Mr. Lewis Shackleford, the deceiver and traitor to my father, into a move from a magnificent estate on Franklin Pike south of Nashville to a simple town house in downtown Memphis. No matter how much wealth their father and sisters have since gained, Betsy and Joe have never outlived their habits of saving: they turned off the light in an empty room, they did not leave the stove when they left the house, they did not make unnecessary long-distance calls. In soul and mind they still lived in the days of the Depression of the thirties. This may have contributed to the incredible success they had with their family insurance and real estate agency. But I cannot speak about this with certainty, since I am not a businessman myself. Of course, I am from the same generation as my sisters, but, shall we say, of a completely different temperament and, perhaps, young enough not to feel the full force of the lessons of the Depression. Hearing my sister’s voice, I immediately asked: “Is something wrong, Betsy?” There was a silence, and in the silence that followed, I could almost see her face, especially her mouth, as she bit first her upper lip and then her lower lip, deciding whether to tell the news gradually or all at once. Apparently, she stopped at the first one.

“Yes, Philip,” she announced, raising her voice an entire octave. – It’s about my father.

There was silence again. And then, it seems, I experienced some kind of joy. In the long lonely week after Holly left, I was so discouraged that for a few moments I was sincerely glad that somewhere in Memphis someone was also in trouble. Then I told myself that this was not the only thing. Rather, I was just happy to somehow escape from the gloomy thoughts of a future lonely life. It seemed to me that there was no way I could convince another young woman like Holly Kaplan to live with me. Bald patches, bad posture, untidy clothes – everything was against me. And therefore, in answering, I quickly changed my intonation. I wanted to relax and have fun.

— What is it, Betsy? I asked. — What could happen?

Now it’s Betsy’s turn to take a break. She considered again how best to present the news. These hesitations were in themselves a cause for concern, because both sisters, as a rule, did not go into their pocket for a word. Finally, she could no longer restrain herself and went straight to the point:

– Father, Philip. Your father plans to marry.

To be honest, I burst out laughing. My father. As if all his life he had not been more of a father to Betsy and Josephine than to mine! But this is still half the trouble. My father was eighty-one years old, he suffered from many ailments that come with age. How not to laugh, imagining him as a groom? Still, I realized that I had acted rudely and tactlessly, and when Josephine called a little later, I was already prepared and behaved with more restraint. At first, however, the very thought struck me as amusing for several reasons. First, I felt funny when I remembered the ridiculous picture that arose thanks to recent letters from Betsy and Joe: each wrote to me about two kinds of our father’s pastime – about evenings with old ladies and about nights in the city – with young women (the letters seemed undisguised humorous). Secondly, in my many years of imagination, he was a father, husband and a man of such natural or acquired authority that his children could not even think of such an important step as a wedding without of his advice or blessings of – or rather, not resigned to his inevitable rejection of a potential applicant. You see, none of his four children ever married. And now the two unmarried daughters are about to have the last word on his wedding plans. I couldn’t explain the reason for my laughter to Betsy. But when she did not support me, I said:

– And who is this unfortunate chosen one? — At such a moment it was difficult to avoid irony. There was another pause, and then I heard:

– Phil, this is no joke. This is Mrs. Clara Stockwell. She lives near Germantown, not far from our mom and dad’s house.

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Located near the Pyramid in Memphis, the 5-star Big Cypress Lodge offers shopping delivery, dry cleaning and free shuttle service. The hotel is located 2 km from the Fedex Forum Arena and a 5-minute drive from the Sun Studio.

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This Memphis hotel is 1 km from the city center. The Ducks Unlimited Waterfowl Heritage Center is nearby..

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The en suite rooms feature stone fireplaces, irons with ironing boards and personal safes.

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The bar serves refreshing drinks. Dining options are available at Uncle Buck’s Fish Bowl and The Lookout at the Pyramid, a 5-minute walk from the hotel.

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The hotel offers a wellness centre, spa and massages.

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Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel.

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Private parking is available on site for USD 20 per day.

The hotel staff speaks English, Spanish, Italian, Turkish.

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• Jacuzzi
• Pedicure
• Manicure
• Body peeling
• Facial treatments
• Treatment room
• Wraps
• Massage

View from room

• Garden view
• City view
• Mountain view
• Pool view
• River view

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• Air conditioning
• Heating
• Safe in room
• Minibar
• Rest area
• Dressing room
• Patio
• Garden furniture
• Balcony
• Tea/coffee set
• Dining table
• Ironing accessories

Bathroom

• Free toiletries

Media

• Flat screen TV
• Telephone

Interior

• Carpeted floor

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Location

1 Bass Pro Drive,
Memphis,
tennessee,
USA,
Tennessee

• Famous places in the city
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• Restaurants

Memphis

Beale Street

2.2
km

706 Union Ave

Sun Studio

2. 1
km

Event Hall

Memphis Cook Convention Center

660 m

Museum

Magevney House

1.4
km

Museum

Slave Haven House Museum

1.6
km

Museum

Memphis Fire Museum

1.2
km

125 N Front St

Museum of the river. Mississippi on about. Mud Island

1.0
km

Union Ave and Third Ave

AutoZone Park

2.0
km

Park

Mud Island River Park

2.3
km

Museum

Woodruff-Fontaine House

2.1
km

Near Mud Island River Park

Confederation Park

1.0
km

Stadium

Fedex Forum

2.3
km

149 Union Ave The Peabody Memphis

Peabody Ducks

1.9
km

Museum

Memphis Museum of Rock and Soul Music

2.4
km

119 S Main St

Museum of Asian and Jewish Art Balti

1.8
km

652 Adams Ave

Mallory Neely House

1. 3
km

155 Market Ave

St. Mary’s Catholic Church

710 m

Park

Court Square Park

1.0
km

Church

Catholic Church of St. Peter

710 m

Riverside Drive

Riverblaf path

710 m

Concert Hall Orpheum Theater

.1.1.1
km

Museum

Memphis Music Hall of Fame

2.1
km

Beale St (at Main Street)

Elvis statue

2.6
km

St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral

Church

1.3
km

Park

Martyrs Park

1.0
km

Museum

National Civil Rights Museum

3.0
km

251 Riverside Dr

Beale Street Retail and Entertainment Area

2.4
km

Museum

Blues Hall of Fame

2.8
km

Stadium

Pyramid in the city of Memphis

490 m

1 BASS PRO DR

Heritage Center for Waterfowl Birds Ducks Unlimited

450 m

1 BASS PRO DR

The LOOKOUT ATTTA 9000 290 m

346 346 NMIN ST ST 9000 NMAIN ST 9000 NMINS 470 m

317 N Main ST

Alcenia’s Desserts & Preserves

550 m

111 Jackson Ave

Ferraro’s Pizzeria and Pub 9000 520 m

9000 9000 Town SQ

0002 Paulette’s

1. 1
km

300 N 2nd St

Notes & Provisions Restaurant and Bar

910 m

50 Harbor Town Square

Terrace at The River Inn

1.3
km

737 Harbor Bend Rd Miss Cordelia’s Grocery

Cordelia’s Table

600 m

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FAQ

What airport is Big Cypress Lodge Memphis near?

Big Cypress Lodge Memphis is located 20 km from Memphis International Airport.

Big Cypress Lodge Memphis good for a business trip or business meeting?

Yes, Big Cypress Lodge Memphis offers a photocopier and a 24-hour business center.

Is Big Cypress Lodge suitable for families with children?

For the youngest guests, Big Cypress Lodge offers baby food, board games and a playground.

How far is Big Cypress Lodge from the city center?

The distance between Big Cypress Lodge and the city center is 5 km.

Do Big Cypress Lodge clean the rooms?

Yes, Big Cypress Lodge provides laundry and housekeeping.

Does Big Cypress Lodge provide meals?

Big Cypress Lodge has an a la carte restaurant called Fishbowl at the Pyramid.

What places are worth visiting near Big Cypress Lodge Memphis?

Popular points of interest near Big Cypress Lodge Memphis include Memphis Pyramid and Ducks Unlimited Waterfowl Heritage Center.

Are there restaurants near Big Cypress?

Uncle Buck’s Fish Bowl and Grill near Big Cypress.

How much does it cost to stay at Big Cypress?

A room in Big Cypress costs from $398.

What rooms are available at Big Cypress Lodge Memphis?

Big Cypress Lodge Memphis offers you a choice of Junior Suite, King Room and Queen Room.

Are you able to exercise at Big Cypress Lodge Memphis?

Yes, guests at Big Cypress Lodge Memphis can enjoy archery, bowling and billiards.

Is there any public transportation near Big Cypress Lodge?

Yes, there is a Mega bus stop 400 meters from Big Cypress Lodge.

Address

1 Bass Pro Drive,
Memphis,
tennessee,
USA,
Tennessee

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Memphis style in modern design

In the world of design and fashion, everything is cyclical. The memphis style is a good confirmation of this ─ many years after its appearance, it is again popular. About how Memphis arose and what incarnations it found in the world of art0140 Head of Flatplan service design department Maria Oganesyan .

Creation history

Ettore Sottsass as a young man in his house in the 60s.

… and many years later at an exhibition next to one of his works – a designer wardrobe

The Memphis Group was organized on December 11, 1980 in Milan by designers Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi and Michele de Lucchi. Its title was taken from the Bob Dylan song Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, which they were listening to that evening. The group did not last long, only up to 1988 years old, but this period was bright and memorable for world design. Like all postmodernists, members of the Memphis group sought to move away from generally accepted standards and opposed themselves to “good taste” in its traditional sense.

The creation of Ettore Sottsass, “Study No. 54”, which was shown at the exhibition at the Museum of Art near Los Angeles, 2006.

Memphis in the interior

This style has always attracted the absence of the usual restrictions and clear canons. The creators of Memphis designed interiors using unusual shapes, geometric ornaments and bright open colors. A distinctive feature of the style is the abundance of patterns. Collages, comics, pop art paintings and even frames from cult films are often used.

Carpet with bright ornaments

Andy Warhol’s work

Of course, not everyone will like such a riot of textures and colors. Active catchy materials, diverse, asymmetric objects and forms are difficult to imagine in one space, so such interiors cannot be perceived without a share of humor.

Memphis-style decoration is characterized by practical and inexpensive materials in bright colors and a wide variety of ornaments. For example, geometric or imitating natural motifs (leopard spots, snake skin, etc.). On the walls you can often see combinations of different colors and shapes.

Interior items

More and more companies are making home design items in the Memphis style. Each such object not only performs its utilitarian function, but also looks like a real piece of art. For example, lamps, as if born in the 80s: ceiling lamps of different colors and shapes are suspended on cables and resemble avant-garde mobiles with their design.

Another example is the A tribute to Memphis furniture collection from the famous Kartell factory. This is a tribute to the famous style, from which perky ornaments and bizarre shapes were taken.

Furniture collection “A tribute to Memphis”, Kartell

Designers from the French bureau POOL have created a universal sofa model “Grid”. On a wooden base there are textile cushions, which are combined with multi-colored inserts that differ from each other in shape. This combination of shapes and textures is a characteristic feature of the Memphis style.

Contemporary wallpaper prints

…for Memphis interiors

Some companies even produce wallpapers with traditional Memphis prints, such as the French brand Petite Friture. Manufacturers use characteristic patterns, but in a more relaxed interpretation. Due to this, such wallpapers are suitable not only for outrageous Memphis interiors, but also for cozy Scandinavian-style spaces.

For those who like bright interiors, but it is difficult to bring to life all the unusual elements of Memphis at once, decor is an excellent solution: blankets, carpets, vases or bright dishes. Such details will organically fit even into a calm interior and bring a share of positive and a bit of humor into it.

Fashionable Memphis

Memphis is a decorative and eye-catching style, so the trend has not bypassed other areas of design. For example, the world of fashion takes formative elements from it – shape and color. The most famous fashion houses, such as Dior, have not bypassed the Memphis renaissance. Silhouette, decor, fabrics – everything absorbed his stylistic features.

Graphic and web design

In graphic design and on the pages of popular websites, you can also find elements of the Memphis style ─ for example, its interesting patterns, rich colors and geometric patterns. The authors of such images take ornaments as a basis ─ lines, zigzags and smoother shapes — and combine them with bright contrasting shades.

Photo: Getty Images, memphis-milano.com, archive of press services

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Committee of the St.

Jude” (USA) identified 8 priority rules for palliative care in pediatric oncology – Vera Hospice Charitable Foundation

Published by the Subcommittee on Quality of Life and Palliative Care
of the St. Jude
March 15, 2014

About two and a half years ago at the St. Jude (Memphis) conducted a series of focus group studies. The task was to identify by the parents of children who died as a result of the disease, priorities in palliative care. The results of these studies were not planned for publication. They were mainly intended to form an internal strategic plan in the field of palliative care. But such a fundamental document, created with the participation of parents, deserves to be read by a much wider audience.

Message from the members of the Subcommittee on Quality of Life and Palliative Care of the St. Jude:

St. Jude and other pediatric oncology institutions are deeply committed to providing the highest quality medical and palliative care for patients and families with the level of awareness and support they need to make informed decisions and be actively involved in the care of their children. We support these lofty ideals and urge leaders in the field of pediatric oncology to consider the list of eight care priorities outlined in this document.

Since the issues discussed in the field of pediatric oncology are mainly related to family-oriented care, we strongly recommend the creation of interdisciplinary teams formed by pediatric oncology leaders, healthcare professionals and family members to identify strategies for assessing and improving all aspects of care.

Recommendations for improving the quality of palliative care and end-of-life care in pediatric oncology

Recommendation #1. Ensure that children are provided with the highest level of care and quality of life, always keeping hope for the best possible outcome.

As parents, we strive with all our heart for our children to get better; we want to see them healthy and free from disease. We also recognize the need to create a lifestyle that is as close to normal and familiar as possible given the circumstances. We would like the nursing team to empower us to work with hospital staff to create an environment and lifestyle that is best for our children.

The Care Team must be sensitive to the personal needs of our sick children at every stage, from the day of a positive diagnosis with the possibility of a cure, or a fatal diagnosis and the loss of a child. This is the best care that meets the individual needs and needs of each child and their family, and is provided in areas that we as a family consider the most important to us. This includes both emotional support for the child’s parents and siblings, as well as spiritual support for families and their cultural values.

Personnel caring for sick children should be well trained in medicine and have the skills to support families in the decision-making process when it becomes known that the child is unlikely to recover.

Recommendation #2: Maintain effective symptom control.

We are driven by a boundless desire to give our children complete safety and comfort, without pain and suffering in the process of treatment. We would like to be empowered by the nursing team to work with hospital staff to provide children with support and alleviate the symptoms of illnesses our children suffer from.

All health care providers must be able to best interact and communicate with families on complex issues. They must understand that physical comfort and quality of life are of the utmost importance to us from the moment of diagnosis, and especially when the disease progresses and recovery becomes impossible. Therefore, we believe that care in the presence of severe symptoms, as well as relief from avoidable pain, should be best provided at all stages of the child’s illness. We need support and access to specialists who can manage pain and symptoms to make sure our children get the best possible support and care.

Recommendation #3. Provide personalized care.

As parents of seriously ill children, we believe that the health care system should recognize the importance of trust and the value of services. Caregivers need to understand that our children are members of our families and as parents we would like support to be provided to the whole family because a child’s illness affects each of its members.

Most importantly, we want to work with trained staff who are understanding and can connect with us, someone who can advocate for patient care and quality of life from the time of diagnosis. All specialists should be aware that we as a family go through all stages in the medical healthcare system, and make every effort to find common ground with us and share our fears, hopes, personal values, respect and support our initiatives and ideas, which are the most important in caring for our children.

Recommendation #4. Provide the family with all the fullness of useful and verified information.

As parents of seriously ill children, we need to have access to useful and verified information so that we can make informed decisions on behalf of our children, navigate the complex health care system well, and be sure that our children have access to all the services they need .

All healthcare professionals are required to receive appropriate training to communicate effectively with children and their families on a wide range of complex issues. Employees must keep us hopeful and at the same time be open and honest in providing information about the health of our children. We need information about all possible treatments so that we can make an informed decision. We need specialists who can be honest with us about the possibility of death, and while we still have time, we could have thoughtful conversations with our children and other family members about what to expect if cancer treatment does not work. positive result.

Recommendation #5. Support parents and children in making difficult care decisions.

As parents of children suffering from cancer and other terrible diseases, we recognize our responsibility to make decisions on behalf of our children. And we understand that making decisions in the field of care for the terminally ill is very difficult. Decision making remains with the family – this is our point of view. We must be given the information we need to make decisions on behalf of our children. As parents who have lost their children to illness, we need the inner balance and peace of mind that comes from knowing the right decision was made in the name of caring for our children. This means that we need the support and guidance of properly trained doctors and health care professionals to help us establish a childcare experience that is consistent with our values ​​and beliefs. We would like doctors and specialists to support us in our decisions and respect our choices.

Recommendation #6. Help achieve consistency in patient care.

Critically ill children receive medical care within a complex health care system. We believe that this care should be well organized and harmonized through the same health care system. We also believe that health professionals from all disciplines should be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with each other in the care of our children. This is especially important in moments of crisis: such as during hospitalization, transfer from hospital to clinic or home from hospital, as well as at the end of life.

Recommendation #7. To provide children with progressive and incurable diseases with a peaceful and peaceful end of life.

When the disease progresses and death is inevitable, we want to be sure that all the necessary comfortable conditions will be created for this and the child will be spared from unnecessary suffering. During this period, we would like to receive support from medical professionals that will prepare us and our children for a possible sad outcome. We also want to be able to choose the place where our child will spend his last days, and those children who, for health reasons, cannot leave the hospital, would be surrounded by a homely atmosphere and provided with support until the very end.

Recommendation #8. Provide support to family members and hospital staff in the event of a child’s death.