Back in February my mother, artist Carolyn Shores Wright , had a brief stay at Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville. My brother and I mad...

Today he is known only to theatrical historians, but in his lifetime Augustus Thomas was one of America's most successful playwrights. H...

Well, sort of.  On a recent Sunday Dianne and I were making one of our usual trips to Jemison for lunch at the Smokey Hollow Restaurant f...

The full title of this 1922 pamphlet of 60 pages is A Statistical Study of Education in Alabama from 1890 to 1921. The item was issued by th...

Recently I was perusing the June 1911 issue of the Southern Medical Journal. In the front is a large section of advertisements and up popped...

Over the years I've collected Alabama postcards and want to share a few in this post. I've gathered together some old ones that were...

Novelist and short story writer William March is probably best remembered for one novel published in 1954, The Bad Seed . Actually, adaptati...