'Seeking their place:' Chamber leaders track ways to help ordinary Memphians

A vision of Memphis' path to increased prosperity for all followed memory lane's wooden tracks Thursday.
As incoming interim president of the Greater Memphis Chamber, Beverly Robertson outlined the vision for 2019, the city's bicentennial. And she did so by invoking her childhood, when the city was segregated and she could see the beloved wooden roller coaster, the Zippin Pippin, from her house in Orange Mound.
"I remember standing on my porch when I was about five years old, watching the roller