For a number of years I've been posting links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles in the "alabamahistory" group at Yahoo!Groups. Most of the articles are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio websites. You can subscribe to the emails there if you wish; I send out two or three a week along with relevant meeting announcements and so forth.
Here's the latest batch:
| Arlington Author Shaun Hamill Receives Praise from Stephen King for Debut Novel, A Cosmology ...
I loved it,” Stephen King has said, as quoted on the book's dust jacket. ... Hamill lives in Alabama with his wife, his in-laws and his dog, but it was in ...
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New Book Chronicles History of Ruffner Mountain
Author Mark Kelly chronicled the preserve's history in his book “Back to ... The preserve's namesake, William Henry Ruffner, was not an Alabama ...
| 'My Alabama'
One such pictorial book recently released by NewSouth Books, based in Montgomery, is the hardback coffee table sitter “My Alabama” by ...
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Alabama historical commission claims control of Clotilda, the last US slave ship
Alabama's state historical commission apparently will retain control of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda. Friday was the deadline for any potential ...
Alabama Maker Siluria Brewing has tapped into local flavor of Alabaster
Siluria Brewing is an Alabama Maker of local beer from Alabama ... “We knew we wanted an old building, we wanted there to be some history and ...
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Alabama's bicentennial cookbook launches with signings around the state
“Time to Eat, Y'all: Celebrating the Culinary Heritage of Sweet Home Alabama” is a commemorative book includes recipes and family stories from Gov.
| On this day in Alabama history: Looney House deeded to St. Clair Historical Society
The John Looney House was built by its namesake and his sons around 1820, west of the Coosa River – near what is now the town of Ashville, in St.
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| Historians want authority after historic cemetery disturbance
Police are investigating if a historic cemetery in south Huntsville was ... County and spread out all over the southwest and south Alabama," says Miller.
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Pinson Valley High School named Alabama Bicentennial School
PINSON — Alabama Governor Kay Ivey named Pinson Valley High School one of 21 ... The history, tales and recipes were published in a book.
| in 'A Cosmology of Monsters,' Alabama author Shaun Hamill tells a horror story about a family that ...
“A Cosmology of Monsters” is the first novel from Shaun Hamill, a recent Texas transplant to Alabama. The book is a family saga about the anguish of ...
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| Alabama artists make an indelible impression as Ken Burns explores 'Country Music'
Alabama artists make an indelible impression as Ken Burns explores ... Music” at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery.
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| On this day in Alabama history: Educator Nathan B. Young was born
Born in Hale County on this day in 1862 to an enslaved mother, Nathan Benjamin Young grew up in Alabama during Reconstruction. Young attended ...
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Alabama's Michael Rooker officially cast in new 'Suicide Squad' movie
Comic book movie fans got some fun news Friday afternoon when director James Gunn revealed the cast of his upcoming sequel “The Suicide Squad.
| Anne Rivers Siddons, Novelist Whose Muse Was the New South, Dies at 83
Hearing that, Mr. Conroy told her, “That's the opening of your great book ... high school and a popular sorority sister at Auburn University in Alabama.
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| 40 years ago Aubie the Tiger jumped into mascot history
40 years ago Aubie the Tiger jumped into mascot history .... During the Alabama game at Legion Field in 1979, Aubie wore a houndstooth hat and ...
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| On this day in Alabama history: 'Miss Nina' was born
Nina Miglionico was born in Birmingham on this day to Joseph and Mary Miglionico, Italian immigrants who owned a delicatessen and sundries store.
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Hulu's "Looking for Alaska" Releases First Full Trailer Starring Kristine Froseth and Charlie Plummer
We see him as he packs up his bags (and books) and leaves his native Miami to arrive at Alabama's Culver Creek for boarding school, his father's ...
| Dr. Joseph Landers creates opera in celebration of Alabama Bicentennial
Dr. Joseph Landers creates opera in celebration of Alabama Bicentennial ... were eventually published in a 1941 book titled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. ... Additionally, the Alabama State Council on the Arts provided financial ...
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| Colbert County starts historic marker program
The project's initial funding is through grants from the Alabama Bicentennial ... "Colbert County has its share of old homes, some even before 1820.".
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From Three on a String to Ken Burns documentaries, this Alabama Music Maker is making history
Bobby Horton has been interested in the Civil War since he was 9 years old, igniting his lifelong love of history. “Every adult male in my life, from my ...
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| UM has many connections to state's Bicentennial celebration
In recognition of two centuries of statehood, Alabama's Bicentennial ... Everyone's story matters, because it's all tied to the history of Alabama,” ...
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| On this day in Alabama history: Talladega Superspeedway held first race
Bill France Sr., founder of NASCAR, helped created the Talladega Superspeedway in the late 1960s at a time most major tracks were located along ...
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| 5 reasons to see The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 at the Birmingham Children's Theatre ...
Directing The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 “is another opportunity to reenact some of Alabama's history that affected the world, and hopefully ...
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| Remembering Alabama's Allene Roberts, Hollywood's girl next door
Her oval face and wide brown eyes had a girl-next-door innocence that Hollywood couldn't resist. Allene Roberts was 17 or 18 years old when she ...
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| The never-before-told story of Alabama's only Frederic death
(WALA) – As the ferocious winds from Alabama's storm of the century ... Fellows Cemetery in Bayou La Batre, where Bosarge's mother and brother are ...
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Meetings at Hatchet Creek -- Flynt series on Alabama's bicentennial
L. A. and Grady House were buried side by side in the cemetery next to Hatchet Creek Presbyterian Church. Every Labor Day Sunday, her family ...
| Lawrence County's famous General Joe Wheeler honored with birthday celebration
In honor of one of Alabama's most enduring legendary figures, Gen. ... It includes the family cemetery and the original out buildings, some which ...
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