My brother Richard and I were at mom's house in Huntsville recently and found this postcard in some  family memorabilia. The card, dated...

I've written a number of posts on this blog related to medical history in Alabama, especially Birmingham; and also many on the history o...

April is National Poetry Month  in the U.S., and each year I've tried to post a new item on this blog related to Alabama poets and poetr...

Mary Elizabeth Vroman came to be an "Alabama" author in a rather unusual way. She was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1924 [?], but...

Gadsden's Hotel Reich , built by Adolphe "Popo" Reich, opened on February 12, 1930. The ten-story structure had 150 rooms and ...

I was recently sifting through a box of old newspapers that came from my paternal grandparents' house in Gadsden. I've written about...

I've written before on this blog about Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon, "the first certified, practicing female physician in Alabama"...