Alabama Yesterdays: Random wanderings through Alabama history
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Birmingham Photo of the Day (58): Relay House Hotel
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The article below identifies the Relay House as the city of Birmingham's first hotel. The BhamWiki article on the hotel says it "w...
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Holidays Past in Alabama: A List
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My effort to bring together related posts on this blog continues here. So far I've also done "Film Actresses from Alabama Befor...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Alabama Author: Michelle Richmond
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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...
Friday, June 23, 2017
Dad and Alabama Archaeology
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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 ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Bessie Smith's Alabama Connections
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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...
Friday, June 16, 2017
Finding Alabama in New York State
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These AlabamaYesterday wanderings often take me to some state connection far away, and this post is another example. I recently stumbled acr...
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