The article below identifies the Relay House as the city of Birmingham's first hotel. The BhamWiki article on the hotel  says it "w...

My effort to bring together related posts on this blog continues here.   So far I've also done  "Film Actresses from Alabama Befor...

A couple of yeas ago, probably at a library book sale, I picked up a copy of Michelle Richmond' s 2007 novel, The Year of Fog .  The cov...

During the early years that my brother Richard and I were growing up in Huntsville, dad [Amos J. Wright, Jr.] worked on two hobbies as time ...

Although she was born in Chattanooga (April 15, 1894, was the date given by her family), the great blues singer Bessie Smith had Alabama co...

These AlabamaYesterday wanderings often take me to some state connection far away, and this post is another example. I recently stumbled acr...