The Eckles-Madison Family Cemetery is a small cemetery located 50 feet south of Carnes Street, directly across the street from a duplex numbered 3764-3766 Carnes.  The vacant lot is in the middle of the Normal Station neighborhood near the University of Memphis and is heavily overgrown with only a few headstones remaining. 

Jodie Davis, a resident in the Normal Station area, said that the cemetery has been abandoned for quite some time and feels that nobody has any respect for the graves on the land. 

“Kids hang out over here and people let their dogs use the bathroom in the lot,” Davis said.  “I think its disrespect to those that are buried there to have it looking it like that and not keeping it up.” 

Captain Kevin Langellier, special programs coordinator of Police Services, who is in charge of the Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Initiative of the University Neighborhood Partnership, says fences, landscaping and locks are the three most common issues he sees when aligning homes with CPTED practices to make them more safe.

Robin Henderson, 22, works at Einstein Brothers at The University of Memphis every day and has a second job at FedEx Forum. She was born with an unusual circumstance where doctors called her condition a mystery. Her right hand is smaller than her  left but that doesn’t keep her from living a normal life. 

“My confidence comes from within,” Henderson said.

She believes in never giving up and conquering the impossible.

What I do on a day-to-day basis is work and spending time with my family.  I am very aware that my hand is different from others but I keep the ball moving because no one is going to have sympathy for no one,” Henderson said. 

Cancer takes the lives of people every day. Many people have or know someone who has lost a loved one to the tragic disease. As cancer becomes more widespread, memorials have begun to surface throughout the United States and the world. In November of 2007, Memphis became the 23rd city in the U.S. to build a Cancer Survivor's Park. The park takes people through the journey of battling cancer, as well as offering a place for those who have lost someone close to them to come and reflect. With various sculptures from different local artists, the park gives people hope that cancer can be beaten and that a new life awaits after it has been defeated.