In his middle and high school years our son Amos played youth hockey in the Birmingham area. Three different organizations have supported th...

Back in 2014 I wrote a piece on films and tv shows set in Birmingham. One of the titles I included was Any Day Now. As I said at the time,...

I'm still making my way through the World War II issues of the Gadsden Times saved by paternal grandmother Rosa Mae Wright. Here's a...

Here we have yet another entry in a series devoted to postcards from my collection. I have many that are unused, but the ones actually maile...

Bank robberies in the United States have been declining now for decades. In 1992, 9540 were reported to the FBI. In 2023, the number had fa...

On a pleasant day in January 2023, my son Amos and I made a trip to Tuscaloosa. He especially wanted to visit the Bryant Museum , and this p...

You just never know what will turn up in old newspapers. In going through our parents' house in Huntsville in 2023 and 2024, we found a ...