Here we have another discovery that popped up recently as my brother Richard and I continued our journey through all the family materials at...

Now we come to a post on one of my favorite topics, old postcards. I've written one piece on a number from my own collection, "Some...

Oscar Micheaux was born on a farm in Illinois in 1884, the fifth of thirteen children in the family. By the time of his death in 1951 he ha...

I seem to be doing a series on this blog about ships with names connected in some way to Alabama. This post fits that group. In previous it...

Did you know concrete ships were once a thing? Neither did I. Let's investigate. These ships were built of a combination of steel and...

On April 28 Selma's Concordia College held its final graduation  in the school's gymnasium. About 150 students received degrees in t...

In 1985 Doubleday published  Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural : A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New, 650 pages of sto...