You never know what you'll find when you start roaming around in the archives, whether physical or digital. I found the photo below in...

Back in the dim past of the 1970's I worked for several years at Draughon Library on the Auburn University campus. How we met is lost in...

The magnificent building in the first photograph below stood on the corner of 2nd Avenue North and 18th Street. Constructed in 1893, the str...

In the fall of 1918 my paternal grandfather, Amos Jasper Wright, Sr., [1894-1975] was called up for service in World War I. He trained on th...

What to say about Christmas? A time of both great spirituality and much commerce, the day has a fascinating history  and practice both sacre...

This past July my brother Richard and I made one of our annual trips seeking Alabama and family history. This time we were in east central...