An out-of-state member of our high school alumni e-list recently sent out a note about a blog site he thought would interest us. It’s titled Ask Vance and is filled with history and trivia about Memphis.
Since, among our varied blog topics, I write about Memphis (see the Memphis label below, right), I wanted to share the link with you. The author has for some time written the Ask Vance column in Memphis Magazine and has recently initiated the blog.
http://www.memphismagazine.com/askvanceblog/
That should have been it, but then I googled the writer so I could add a thumbnail sketch about him in this post. I found very little. One mention referred to the columnist “known as Vance Lauderdale.” I hadn’t thought about his name, but those are two streets in mid-town Memphis. The remaining couple of references used descriptors including reclusive, eccentric, curmudgeonly, resident historian, and expert on Memphis trivia.
Then I was hooked. I’ve read and enjoyed several of the Ask Vance articles, but now I want to know more about the reclusive Vance Lauderdale. Who is he and just how eccentric is he? Anybody out there got a clue?
i heard that vance lauderdale is really Bill Dries, who used to work at werc radio
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. Anybody got anything else on this?
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