Alabama Yesterdays: Random wanderings through Alabama history
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Alabama's First Female Physician: Louisa Shepard, M.D.
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Source: Find-A-Grave In 1836 Dr. Philip Madison Shepard, a Georgia native and graduate of the Georgia Medical College in Augusta, moved hi...
Sunday, March 30, 2025
That Time Allen Ginsberg Came to Birmingham
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In one of my online wanderings recently I found this photograph of Allen Ginsberg. Birmingham News photographer Ed Jones took this shot of...
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Alabama in "Whiplash" (1948)
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Sometimes I run across really strange Alabama "connections", and I've written blog posts about a few of them. One examined box...
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Colony Motor Hotel in Birmingham
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As one often does, I was recently perusing the March 1963 issue of the Junior League of Birmingham Newssheet and came across this advertisem...
Monday, March 3, 2025
Bookstore Tour of Huntsville
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My brother Richard and I were in Huntsville on a recent weekend, and we spent that Saturday tooling around the city visiting several booksto...
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