I found the first photograph below in D. Antoinette Handy's Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras [1981]. Then I found it and a r...

In going through some papers at mom's recently, I found the small recipe collection below; I've included a few sample pages. The ...

As we were going through some papers at mom's recently, my younger brother Richard came across these relics from the past-- trading stam...

I've written quite a few posts on this blog related to maps. I've done a series "Pondering Alabama Maps" with nine entries...

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...