Alabama Yesterdays

Alabama Yesterdays: Random wanderings through Alabama history

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Nat King Cole & W.C. Handy

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These two musical giants from Alabama are linked by the 1958 film  St. Louis Blues. Cole played Handy in the film named after one of his bes...
Friday, January 7, 2022

That Time John Dodge Died in Mobile

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Recently one of my Google Alerts coughed up an interesting article . The piece was a brief notice about the unmarked grave of John Lewis Dod...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Alabama History & Culture News: January 4 edition

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  Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these items are from newspapers, with...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

What's Coming to the Blog in 2022?

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For several years now I've been writing these "What's Coming" posts. You can read the 2021 post here  and earlier ones  he...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Some Pelham Christmas Ornaments

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In the late 1990's and early 2000's when the kids were in secondary school, Dianne, Amos, Becca & I attended several Christmas t...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Alabama History & Culture News: December 22, 2021 edition

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  Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these items are from newspapers, with...
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