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Letter from the editor how do we Love our Neighbors?

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ommunity. It’s what makes Collierville a special place. Over six years and thirty-six issues, Tour Collierville sought to highlight the very best of our town. Our final, bittersweet issue is no different, with our Community shining through as overtly as ever. In this final publication, we are featuring a limited-edition issue of Tour Collierville originally written in the thick of the pandemic. Its purpose was to bring hope to the town by illustrating how, throughout history, the community has risen during times of trouble. And further, how the town requires this sense of unity today – possibly more than ever. We’ll circle back to that shortly, but first… It’s impossible to give enough thanks to all who have supported Tour Collierville Magazine. So many have poured into making this magazine special, that it’s difficult to type these words with steady hands.

Community Contributors Writing an article that could be read by fifty thousand people is a daunting task, even for professionals. But most of our community contributors were not journalists or writers of any kind. It was ordinary Collierville residents who sat in front of an empty screen and blinking cursor in search of words that would bring value to our community. In fact, most articles were provided by ministers, doctors, business leaders, real estate experts, health and fitness professionals, home designers, town officials, non-profits, and other locals. We are extremely grateful for those who took time and care to help fill these pages over the last six years.

Community Socials Musicians often say the most gratifying aspect of their career journey is when a live audience knows the words to their songs. Likewise is our feelings of pride and validation, when walking through crowds of people eager to have their picture taken for the magazine. We’ve been privileged to attend countless events and capture them in images for the history photo | NANCY BASSETT

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books. We’ll still see you there; we’ll just no longer be the ones with a media lanyard and a camera.

Life Changes We’ve been honored to highlight engagements, weddings, and even some passings. To be even a small part of these emotional times in the lives of our readers is an indescribable experience.

High School Heroes We’re not cool. Knowing this from the jump, we needed Collierville’s kids to give us cred and keep us young. For this, we sincerely appreciate all the kids who participated in photo shoots, cover art, and stories. Watching you grow in sports, music, academics, and more was rewarding. It was our local kids being themselves that was the most refreshing. And if you didn’t like being in the magazine, at least feel good that your parents and grandparents enjoyed seeing you. We know because they all stopped by asking for copies! Special thanks here to all the parents who allowed their kids to participate, too.

Advertisers Holy smokes, producing and distributing a magazine is expensive! Here’s the thing: you can look at all the advertisers in the magazine as wanting to get their message in front of you, our Collierville residents. You’d be right, and that has value to you, in and of itself. But we’d be remiss to leave out the fact that they are responsible for all the features, photography, directories, and articles. We’re confident that every advertiser in Tour Collierville was invested in helping support a Collierville business and in bringing your local stories to light.

Our Readers We like to say that Collierville loves our magazine because you are our magazine. At one point we had a 3rd party readership audit performed. Well, you guys blew us away. Even the audit company made a comment that our ratios were some of the highest they’d seen. But we don’t flatter ourselves. We know that the Collierville community supports its own, and we’re just happy to have ridden the wave. From day one, Collierville has read, shared, and referred Tour Collierville. YOU made us feel at home.

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ritten during the lockdowns of 2020, the story of Fire + Wind included here is a nostalgic reflection of Collierville’s community coming together in trying times. It illustrates how the Giants, of whose shoulders we stand on today, stood together as family to help those in need. Our hope is that as you read through Fire + Wind, the story inspires you as it has us and the locals who lived it. Collierville, to this day, thrives by being a community first. Neighbors helping neighbors. Charitable organizations, general kindness, and even just friendly nods at the grocery store are what makes Collierville special. As Collierville weathers new storms, this final issue illustrates how our community continually comes together in support of those affected. While today’s challenges might be less apparent, they are equally as menacing – threatening the nature of community itself.

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To remain strong, we cannot allow the lines that have been drawn nationally to become cracks in our local foundation. Remaining a strong community takes patience and empathy. It means thinking twice before making that angry social media post, looking beyond yard signs and bumper stickers to understand the neighbor behind them, and practicing patience with our local officials, government, and school board. It’s crucial that we lift folks up instead of tearing them down. We find unity by seeing through the lens of “Collierville Green” instead of Red or Blue. Collierville’s 150-year anniversary theme was “Shine a Light.” With an original aim of highlighting all the great aspects of our town to its residents. Today, this theme represents an opportunity for our community to shine bright as a model of unity among so many who are divided. An opportunity to spread the love, kindness, and caring we see in each of you. We must be the Giant shoulders on which the next generation will stand. As our final issue is enclosed in the following pages, that means this is our last Editor’s Letter. Signing off, we rest easy knowing there’s not enough words, pictures, or pages to fully capture the goodness of Collierville’s community. Let it shine.

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Love Our Neighbors? If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law. (Romans 13:8) What would it look like if those who follow Jesus in our community became committed to loving our neighbors? Jesus was clear in John 13 that the way we love one another would be the primary evidence to the people around us of a life lived for him. So, this seems like an important goal we should all strive toward. Loving our neighbors well will mean we travel down some unfavorable paths. The church I have the honor of pastoring began to ask a couple of years ago, “how do we love our neighbors well?” Attempting to answer this question has led us down some paths that weren’t always favorable to some. Loving our neighbors would mean we would have to set our differences aside. And to be sure, the differences in our community are numerous. But none of them should be so insurmountable 16

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that we cannot love one another. If loving our neighbors well is one of the clear indicators of a life lived for Jesus, it stands over, and above any commitment we have to a tribe, political party, or social agenda. Loving our neighbors well would mean we love people that we may not

“...just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13: 34-35). typically love. The question we still face is the same question the inquisitive expert in the law asked Jesus in Luke 10. “Then who is my neighbor?” It’s easy to love people who look like me, vote like me, and live like me. It’s easy to love people just like me! Jesus proceeds to

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shatter the culturally accepted position most would have given to this expert’s question. Jesus answers his question by elevating one of the most despised people groups not only as the main character in the parable but as the hero! So, is our loving one another taking us down unfavorable paths? Is it causing us to set differences aside, even if some are major? And is loving our neighbors challenging us to love people we usually wouldn’t find ourselves loving? These questions could push us out of our comfort zones, as following Jesus often does. Accepting the challenge will positively impact each of us, as following Jesus always does. Simply put, loving our town starts with loving our neighbors.

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A Story of TRUE HEART IN TRYING TIMES

Collierville has prospered since its founding in 1863. Today, it’s a lively suburban town with award-winning schools, beautiful parks, and a friendly community. With that being said, Collierville is no stranger to hardship. About 75 years ago, two events tested Collierville’s spirit in a way that no one expected. In the summer of 1944, a large and dangerous fire burned the northeast corner of its Town Square. Eleven years later, in 1955, an unexpected tornado ravaged the Town Square and its park in a similar fashion. By all accounts, the damage was immeasurable. These disasters are dark events in Collierville’s history, but under the rubble and debris that was left behind remained bits and pieces of hope. This hope helped shape Collierville into the town that it is today. To help paint this picture, three lifelong Collierville residents and business people, Taylor Stamps, Mary Jean Smith, and Lecile Harris, shared their personal stories with us about these events.

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They said that the fire was so big, they could see it from Memphis. - Taylor Stamps

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t 2 o’clock in the morning, on July 22, 1944, an air compressor locked and launched its belt across the oil-, gas-, and grease- stained floor of the Stamps’ garage and repair shop. It didn’t take much to spark a fire in such a building and before long, it was engulfed in flames. Taylor Stamps, lifelong Collierville resident and a child at the time, remembers that night well. “When the fire started, my dad woke us up and said, ‘The building’s on fire. Let’s get out.’ Well, we were upstairs, and the fire was downstairs, and the stairway was blocked. The garage had a shed that came out of the building and over the gas pumps. We crawled out the window and on top of the roof of that shed. My father slid down the telephone pole, and my brother jumped off the roof. My mother and I stayed on top of the shed. We had a blanket over us to keep the smoke out. A fireman, Claude Harris, came up the ladder and got me and my mother.”

“At the time, I’m eight years old. We lost our house, living quarters, and business. Everything that we owned went up in flames. I’m standing in the middle of Main Street with a bottom pair of pajamas. That’s all I’ve got to my name. Everything else that my family owned went up in smoke.” “I had just never seen anything like it,” said Lecile Harris, one of Stamps’ best friends. They grew up together and share memories of playing around the Square’s old gazebo. When Harris and his father arrived at the Square later that morning, he hurt for his friend. “When I was eight, going up on the Square then, after the fire, it was just almost like something I’d never seen before,” he said. “I remember going up on the Square with my dad, and it was just smoldering at the time, but I remember Taylor Stamps. I remember him there.”

Left: Lecile Harris (left) and Taylor Stamps (right) outside of the Army Surplus Store on Main Street. (2019) Below: Taylor Stamps’ 1954 Oldsmobile parked in front of Stamps Motor Co. (1954)

“They said that the fire was so big, they could see it from Memphis,” said Stamps, commenting that the size of the fire is welldocumented. “They had to call the Memphis Fire Department to come and help them put the fire out.” The fire destroyed the Stamps’ garage, Hall and Everett’s Grocery Store, and two other buildings at the corner of Main and Mulberry. As local fire departments rushed to extinguish the fire, a young Taylor Stamps and his family watched their home, business, and livelihood billow in smoke. Stamps and his family were in a state of shock.

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It’s difficult to imagine an eight-year-old boy and his family standing in the middle of the road, lost and without a home, but that is what Collierville witnessed that morning. Fighting tears, Stamps continued. “That’s when the good people of Collierville opened their hearts, their billfolds, their homes, and came out with just everything. They gave us clothes, they gave us money, they gave us food. It was just... it was... the true spirit of Collierville came out, and I’m indebted to the people of Collierville. Our family is indebted to the people of Collierville.” In the summer of 1944, Collierville gathered around the Stamps family, and others, that were at their lowest. It reached down and helped them up during a time that it certainly didn’t have to. After all, money and other resources were scarce during World War II. Mary Jean Smith spoke of how Collierville was in the 1940’s and 50’s. “Well you know, back then, nobody had much of anything, so there was no way anybody could help financially or anything like that. Our churches were our sustaining lifeline, and people were just friendly, and we had a small circle of friends because Collierville was small, and we all lived around the Square, because well, that’s all there was. There was just a lot of visitation and community spirit all the time...” Harris remembers how the town rallied around the Stamps family. “People gave them clothes, people gave them food, whatever they needed because they had absolutely nothing,” he said. “I mean, when you take your business and your home away in an hour or so, it was pretty tragic. It was just a tragic thing, but everybody gathered around.” Stamps’ garage was soon rebuilt on the same foundation that burned. That slab of concrete


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still remains today, and is now the cornerstone of the Army Surplus Store on Main Street. Today, Taylor Stamps is a living example of the light that shines through the darkness of tragic events such as this. After working at the old funeral home as a young man, Stamps can be credited with organizing the town’s first makeshift ambulance service. He put an ad in the paper and eventually garnered support from the town and the City of Memphis.

Opposite Left: The 1946 Collierville Volunteer Fire Department. Left: Mulberry Street, Collierville Town Square. (Circa 1946) Right: Main Street, Collierville Town Square. (Circa 1946)

He partially credits the fire and Collierville’s reaction with a long life of service to the town, to which he says he’ll always be indebted. “Personally, I owe this town,” he said. “When I was growing up, I volunteered. I worked for different organizations. I got involved in the community to do whatever I could to make it better than what it was, and it was good to start with. I wanted to give back to this town any way I could.”

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Main Street, Collierville Town Square. (Circa 1946)

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Eleven years later, Collierville would face adversity yet again. On a clear, sunny morning in October of 1955, a powerful tornado unexpectedly struck the Collierville Town Square. “Oh, yeah. I remember that one,” started Stamps. “I was going to Memphis State then. This was 1955, and the reason I remember this very well is, [because] I’m driving home from school. It’s in the morning. The birds are singing. I’ve got my radio on my favorite station, listening to Aubrey Guy, and he comes on the air and says a tornado just came through Collierville. Well, I get up here and turn on Main Street, and I look down Main Street, and it looks like a war zone. I mean, it was something else.” By 1955, the Stamps’ garage had been rebuilt and was operating as an Oldsmobile dealership. On that dreadful day, Stamps returned to

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I look down Main Street, and it looks like a war zone. - Taylor Stamps

the Square to stories of his mechanics hiding under cars to avoid being hit by bricks that were ripped from the Square’s buildings and sent through the garage door. Laughing, he recalled, “Our parts man had his car parked right here [behind the building]. It dumped a whole wall on his car. Lunch time comes, he comes out of the building, goes over to the firehouse, gets an axe, comes back over to his car, scrapes all the bricks off the roof, takes an axe, cuts a damn big hole in the roof, peels it back, gets in the car, and drives home for lunch.”

Opposite Left: The old, two-story gazebo on the Town Square is destroyed by a tornado in 1955. Opposite Top Left: Mulberry Street, Collierville Town Square. Left: Four buildings on the Collierville Town Square, at the corner of Main and Mulberry, are destroyed by a tornado. (1955) Above: Lecile Harris (left) and Taylor Stamps (right) outside of the Army Surplus Store on Main Street. (2019)

Stamps reached for a sheet of paper and sketched the tornado’s path. It touched ground on the southwest side of the Square

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Mulberry Street, Collierville Town Square. (Circa 1946)

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They’d just come by and say, ‘Is there anything you need,’ and they’d just start gathering it. They didn’t sit around and wait. Nobody questioned it. You just gotta put it back together. - Lecile Harris

Above: The White Cafe on Main Street. Right: The Town Theatre at Main and Mulberry. On display is a showing of Till The End of Time, a 1946 drama about World War II veterans adjusting to civilian life. Opposite Right: Lecile Harris (left) and Taylor Stamps (right) outside of the Army Surplus Store on Main Street. (2019)

and moved diagonally through the park before destroying the old gazebo and the four buildings on the northeast corner. Three of these buildings were grocery stores. One of the grocery stores was Hall and Everett’s, which was owned by Mary Jean Smith’s father. The fourth building was the Town’s movie house. Harris said: “The tornado, for me, was probably the most traumatic, because I was old enough then. I was like seventeen or something of that nature, a freshman in college. I remember coming home that weekend and seeing the destruction, and it was frustrating… our movie house was gone! That was our entertainment. That’s pretty much all we had in town was the movie - the movie and the platform down by the railroad track where we had dances, and cakewalks, and things like that.” In the days following the storm, anybody and everybody in town that owned a wrecker, or

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a truck, or a wagon came together and began taking debris away from the wreckage. Without question or hesitation, they began rebuilding Collierville’s Town Square. “They just started right back building,” Harris said. “They’d just come by and say, ‘Is there anything you need,’ and they’d just start gathering it. They didn’t sit around and wait. Nobody questioned it. You just gotta put it back together. I don’t think anybody said, ‘Let’s everybody come up here.’ They just, everybody went. It was amazing how fast it was put back together.” Harris’s family owned The White Cafe at the time. It was a popular spot for Collierville’s families to visit on Sundays. Harris remembered his parents at The White Cafe, feeding those who were clearing debris, and later, those rebuilding the damaged structures. “It was our hometown… ” Harris said, “... and we were gonna put it back, one way or another.” These stories are significant, not only because they are historic landmark events in Collierville’s history, but because they contributed to the spirit that Collierville continues to hold onto today. The sense of community, the pride for one’s hometown,


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the love for one another shined brightly, even in Collierville’s saddest moments, and although Collierville was down, it certainly wasn’t out. If anything, it is stronger today because of these events. “The one good thing, the main thing was, there were no lives lost… Nobody was injured. Nobody was hurt… The light that shined on the whole thing was the way people got together and put it back together. It was a love for our family. It was just a huge family then, and everybody took it personally,” explained Harris. “It wasn’t Mr. Stamps’ Oldsmobile place. It was our Oldsmobile place. The movie house didn’t belong to him. It belonged to all of us. Hall

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Above: Taylor Stamps (left) and Lecile Harris (right). (2019) Right: Main Street, Collierville (2019)

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