I was at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport recently picking up my son Amos coming in from Philadelphia. Since I arrived early, I had ti...

Wandering around the Alabama Mosaic database recently, I came across the 1966 photo below showing actress, comedian and author  Fannie F...

I recently posted about a sad memorial at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport . Now it's time for one about the facility...

I've written several posts on this blog that might be classified under a "history in unexpected places" category---things like...

In August I posted an item in this series that discussed a photograph of the original terminal at the Birmingham airport. Since then I'...

This two-story building opened with great fanfare on May 31, 1931, as the new terminal for the Birmingham airport. A single runway served Am...