Alabama Yesterdays: Random wanderings through Alabama history
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Work by Carolyn Shores Wright at the Fayette Art Museum
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Last summer my brother Richard and I made a day trip to Fayette. I've written about the town in northeast Alabama here . Our main purpos...
Friday, April 25, 2025
An Award from the Alabama Historical Association
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Since 2016 the Alabama Historical Association has given out the Robert J. "Jeff" Jakeman Award for Digital History to honor vari...
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Sunday, April 20, 2025
"Life Certificate of Registration" in 1902
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Since mom's death in January 2023 , my brother Richard and I have been on a long journey to get her and dad's house in Huntsville re...
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...
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