I recently came across the aerial shot below in one of the Auburn University Libraries digital collections. The photo of the Cliff Hare foot...

I recently looked at a couple of old issues of the Southern Medical Journal from  1911 and 1919 and found several advertisements for Alabam...

Variations of Halloween are celebrated in many countries . In the U.S., it's mostly a chance for lots of kids and adults to have some fu...

After looking at the first six book covers below, you'd be excused from thinking that Wyatt Blassingame [1909-1985] might have been pri...

OK, ok, this "connection" is pretty minor, but get used to it; there will be more such postings. After all, there are a number of ...

In March 2014 I wrote a post on "Alabama Libraries in 1886 and 1897" that described libraries found in the state in surveys done ...

In August Dianne and I made a trip to Clanton and on the way back drove through the town of Thorsby , also in Chilton County. I had recently...