Back in 2020 I posted an item about the 1959 crime film  Odds Against Tomorrow which has a couple of Alabama connections, one of them tenuo...

General anesthesia using gases for surgery is one of America's great nineteenth century medical achievements. In early 1845 dentist Hora...

"A Torrid Extravaganza" the ad declares. "Daring Glamorous Beauties in Risque Dances."  In Gadsden, Alabama, in 1941? We...

In 2023 I posted an item related to my visit to Huntsville Hospital in 1958. That admission for a tonsillectomy was documented in a Huntsvi...

As I often do, I was perusing some old issues of the Gadsden Times recently and in July and August 1941 issues I found several articles abou...

Well, here we are at my 1000th posting on this blog since March 2014. Scary.  I thought I would devote this one to a bit of family history. ...