Sometimes I just want to do something silly on this blog, so here we are. Again. Back in October 2021 I posted some photographs of our fron...

Recently my brother Richard and I were going through some papers at mom's house in Huntsville, and we found this piece torn from a newsp...

The digital collections of the Smithsonian Institution are a rich source of Alabama-related materials. In a recent wandering there I came a...

Back in the day I did a good bit of research and writing on crime in the South and in Alabama. In 1989 my book Criminal Activity in the Deep...

You can read the first part of this blog post here . Part 2 includes some of the covers and title pages of the Rube Burrow dime novels. I...

The financial woes of Birmingham-Southern College have been in the news a lot lately. As I continue to downsize my book collection, I rece...

I've accumulated a few postings on this topic, so it's time for a list! Look What They're Doing to Old Bryce Hospital Aerial Vie...