Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com
If Ken Sacharin s mapping project is as entertaining as he is, it s worth a download for that alone.
After all, his tagline reads If you re not part of the solution, you re in colloidal suspension.
A Memphis native, Sacharin s parents were married in Memphis by Elvis Presley s upstairs landlord in the late 1940s. Their rabbi owned the house, and rented the bottom unit to the Presleys, he explained. Elvis was a Shabbos Goy sometimes. The King even paid one of Sacharin s schoolmates to play racquetball with him at Graceland, Sacharin recalled.
By his own admission, however, none of this explains why Sacharin is qualified to sift and geo-tag Manhattan s past. I m not, really, he maintains. But I have a lot of time on my hands.
A fascination with light and an escape to Costco helped two Memphis teens win some of the highest honors in art and writing awards, following the footsteps of Sylvia Plath, Andy Warhol and Stephen King.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards granted Hutchison School senior Amellia Hausmann the Gold Medal Portfolio Award, the program s highest honor given to 16 high school seniors across the United States, while White Station High freshman Vivian Fan earned the American Voices Medal, the highest regional honor. I always hoped for a national award, like maybe I ll get a silver medal or it would be really great if I got a gold medal, so this year it just exceeded all of my expectations, Hausmann said.