In September 2022 Dianne and I were in downtown Birmingham for a doctor's appointment at UAB and a visit to one of our favorite eating p...

I recently posted an article of mine published years ago about dime novels featuring Alabama train robber Rube Burrow. Some time before tha...

I've done a few posts on this blog exploring old family photographs. One included some photos taken at the Chandler Street house years ...

There once was a place called Oxanna...perhaps a town on the yellow brick road to Oz? Let's investigate. I've written before about F...

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 &qu...

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