Monday, January 24, 2022

Alabama History & Culture News: January 24 Edition

 


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


Fairhope is an Alabama place of wonders, from sunsets to seafood to storybook castles ...

The late Winston Groom, creator of “Forrest Gump,” lived in nearby Magnolia Springs. Business is so brisk that they've added The Book Cellar, an event ...

Outlaw House just a memory, new book highlights unique sites in Alabama | WKRG
It's one of two Mobile County landmarks featured in a new book that highlights unique old buildings in Alabama. Apart from some stones from the ...
'Descendant' Review: Africatown Documentary Rectifies Black Erasure by Filling Historical Gaps
Because for the many Black folks living in Africatown, Alabama, where the last slave ship made landfall, remembering is what they do best.
... settlement to develop and build a new Welcome Center adjacent to the Old Plateau Cemetery where gravesites of Clotilda passengers are located.

The Last Slave Ship review: the Clotilda, Africatown and a lasting American injustice - The Guardian
Ben Raines offers a welcome and affecting history lesson about a dark moment ... custom-built schooner, the Clotilda, returned to Mobile, Alabama, ...


Albertville Museum receives Alabama Humanities recovery grant | News | sandmountainreporter.com
The Albertville Museum has earned a $6000 competitive Alabama Humanities ... Our Mission of protecting and displaying the History of Albertville.
PBS host Darley Newman explores Alabama Civil Rights Trail in new season of 'Travels with ...
Darley Newman visits many historic sites on the Alabama Civil Rights Trail in two episodes of her PBS series "Travels with Darley," including ...
7 Writers of the Harlem Renaissance - HISTORY
Author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). Corbis/Getty Images. After growing up in rural Alabama and Florida, Zora Neale Hurston attended Howard ...

This time around, surgeons in Alabama transplanted a pig's kidneys into a brain-dead man — a step-by-step rehearsal for an operation they hope to try ...

CVHS to host historian Mike Bunn in virtual program - Valley Times-News
23, the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society will be featuring this subject in a virtual meeting. Mike Bunn, one of Alabama's leading ...

Historian invites public to dedication at historic Speake cemetery | News | moultonadvertiser.com
However, the ceremony will be open to the public and visitors are welcome to attend, Mize said. “Members of the Alabama Historical Commission will be ...

Imani Perry on how the racial sins of the South belong to us all - Los Angeles Times
A native of Alabama who was raised in New England, Perry considers the South ... and in the sense of where I'm situated socially and historically.


Alumna Publishes First Coloring Book About African-American Inventors | Alabama State University
“The coloring and activities book is a fun and interactive way to start learning our Black American history,” Thompson-Gray said.

Alabama is in a 'State of Denial': Join the discussion of a whitewashed history poisoning our ...
The 1901 Alabama Constitution was forged in a period most Alabama history textbooks breeze past — the years following Reconstruction when Union ...

A Lawrence County cemetery is being added to the state's list of ... “Members of the Alabama Historical Commission will be present,” Mize said.


Funeral services will be at Saint Joseph Catholic Church (2300 Beasley Avenue, Huntsville) at 9 a.m. on Monday, January 24 followed by military burial ...


Published author has ties to Greenville
“My mother worked at the Alabama Institute as well. ... Barnes started her published career with two poetry books, “More P's Please,” volumes 1 ...

CVHS to host historian Mike Bunn in virtual program - Valley Times-News
Mike Bunn, one of Alabama's leading historians and director of the ... Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama, will be speaking on his most recent book, ...

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