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

• Neighborhood & Family Initiative Survey: The Orange Mound Neighborhood, Memphis, TN.

October, 1993. Yacoubian Research.

• The Neighborhood & Family Initiative: Orange Mound Perceptions. 1993. The Orange Mound

Collaborative.

• 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.' [1]

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." [2] -- 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