In one of my online wanderings recently I found  this photograph of Allen Ginsberg. Birmingham News photographer Ed Jones took this shot of...

Sometimes I run across really strange Alabama "connections", and I've written blog posts about a few of them. One examined box...

As one often does, I was recently perusing the March 1963 issue of the Junior League of Birmingham Newssheet and came across this advertisem...

My brother Richard and I were in Huntsville on a recent weekend, and we spent that Saturday tooling around the city visiting several booksto...

                           We live in Pelham , so naturally I've done quite a few pieces over the years about the city and its history....

My great-great maternal grandfather Reverend James Wilson Shores [1828-1918] was born in Putnam County, Georgia, on October 6, 1828. He move...