In October 2017 and May and June 2018 I had the very great privilege to make three long trips in 20-foot U-Haul trucks--one from Colorado Sp...

In my regular trips from Pelham to Huntsville to visit mom, I often take a break at the I-65 rest stop south of Cullman. On one stop last ye...

In Alabama we associate Mardis Gras celebrations with either our own city of Mobile , where it all began, or New Orleans, where the element...

In August 2017 I posted an item about the Joseph H. Woolf, M.D., Family Practice Center in UAB's Community Health Services Building at ...

Birmingham's second city hall opened in 1901 on the site of the original one, the southeast corner of 4th Avenue North and 19th Street...

People of a certain age in the Birmingham area will remember the  Bruno's  grocery store chain. From 1932 when Joseph Bruno opened his f...

Another expedition to the digital material at the Alabama Department of Archives and History uncovered the photograph below. The descriptio...