Saturday, July 25, 2020

Alabama History & Culture News: July 25 edition



Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these articles are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio station websites. Enjoy!


Singing River Trail Brings History Alive with its First Executive Director
... former University of Alabama-Huntsville history professor Dr. John Kvach as ... and has traveled to 64 of 67 counties speaking on Alabama history.


A tradition lives on at Alabama's oldest restaurant
In 1989, Jimmy Koikos, the longtime co-owner of Bessemer's historic Bright Star restaurant, began an annual tradition that has become known as A ...

Find out how you can help the Alabama + Lyric Theatres [Photos + Video]
The Alabama Theatre has survived nearly a century in downtown Birmingham—but the COVID-19 pandemic is jeopardizing the future of this historic ...

Alabama HIV Activist Talks About His New 'Fictionalized Memoir'
When Christon-Walker told us about the book, he said that everyone he knows who's read it so far has said it was unputdownable, and we have to ...

Alabama native had role of a lifetime as a Munchkin in 'Wizard of Oz'
Producers initially hoped to get “hundreds” of Little People to play Munchkins but managed only to hire about 125, according to the 2002 book “The ...

Unearthing history Old pottery kiln discovered on Alabama farm
Brackner, who also wrote the book “Alabama Folk Pottery,” visited Limestone County this week to find out more about the site. “They would have ...

How John Lewis Built a Bridge to the Next Generation, in the Pages of a Comic Book
... marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and into ... He even left behind a comic book — the three-part graphic novel memoir ...


Have you seen Birmingham's Ghost Signs? [History + Photos]
[History + Photos] ... #birminghamalabama #alabama #inbirmingham #bhamnow #magiccity ... Address: 2121-2129 Morris Avenue, Birmingham AL.



Birmingham's McWane Science Center announces two new fossil shark discoveries
Community. Alabama History@Home is an online window into state's past and more. Alabama Department of Archives and History has partnered with ...


65 Million-Year-Old Shark Found in Alabama Is New Species
"Our reanalysis of the teeth showed they instead belonged to an entirely new species," David Cicimurri, Curator of Natural History at the South ...

Alabama lynching memorial to open at night
Alabama lynching memorial to open at night ... the existing lynching memorial and museum that documents the history of racial inequality in America.

Story Behind The Song: Opposite Interpretations of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama'
In Lee Ballinger's Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Oral History, "Sweet Home Alabama" producer Al Kooper points to another line as proof that the band opposed ...


Flavors of Alabama's Black Belt highlighted with themed trails
... cultural attractions and historical sites that make the Black Belt region of Alabama a truly special place.” Each color-coded trail includes a checklist of ...

"The Summer House" By: Lauren K. Denton
Don Noble's newest book is Alabama Noir, a collection of original stories by Winston Groom, Ace Atkins, Carolyn Haines, Brad Watson, and eleven ...
[Newest novel by this Alabama author Lauren Denton is set in the state]



UAB painting alumna awarded Alabama State Council on the Arts fellowship
Edwards is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where ... in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Art and Art History.


Hamp Lyon to be inducted into Alabama Sports Hall of Fame
His 1953 team was the first in school history to go undefeated and won the state championship. He served as athletic director from 1957 until he ...


Legendary Alabama Broadcaster Ralph Black Dead at 79
"Ralph Black provided the soundtrack for many of the most memorable moments in the history of Troy University Athletics," said Troy University ...


A tribute to American hero John Lewis + his “good trouble” in Alabama
A tribute to American hero John Lewis + his “good trouble” in Alabama ... It's viewed as a tangible link to Alabama's history of enslavement and the ...

Akin's obituary in the Piedmont Inquirer and reprinted in the The (Calhoun County, Alabama) Weekly Times of May 28, 1896, was quite impressive.

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