Since 2015 I have started each year with a post outlining some of the pieces I'd like to write in the coming months. These posts have ...

Well, not in the same year, of course. Once upon an Internet time there was a marvelous genealogical complex known as  RootsWeb that offere...

The historic Five Points South area of Birmingham's Southside has been in the news over the last year or so and not in positive ways, u...

Since the United States Post Office Department was established in 1792, numerous post offices have opened and closed around the country. Th...

I've done a lot of postings about bookstores on this blog, including a few I've never visited because they are no longer open. Many ...

Earlier this year I began  a blog series intending to share some of the odd materials I've saved over the years that relate to Alabama i...

I don't know about you, but I find a postcard featuring the Wetumpka State Penitentiary to be strange. Yet such postcards seem to have b...