December 19, 2024
Born in North Carolina in 1780, Alabama’s third governor, Israel Pickens, became a major political figure in his native state before moving to Alabama. Pickens attended college in Pennsylvania, read… READ MORE
December 13, 2024
The year is 1831. The setting: the antebellum South. An early morning sun silhouettes the figures of two men, obviously gentlemen, standing back to back in an open field. A… READ MORE
As I sit in my office surrounded by dozens of marketing props, logoed mugs, and a very busy calendar, I have a lot to be grateful for this year. This… READ MORE
December 12, 2024
Alabama was not designated by Congress as a formal territory of the United States until 1817, but thousands of white settlers of all economic classes began to pour into the… READ MORE
December 11, 2024
Beneath the shadows of the towering oak trees in the Old Cloverdale Neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, a unique experience lies in the halls of a 1910 Craftsman-style home. The Scott… READ MORE
December 3, 2024
In 1798 the US Congress formed the Mississippi Territory out of the present-day states of Mississippi and Alabama above the thirty-first parallel, but during the first decade of the nineteenth… READ MORE
November 25, 2024
It is romantic to think of Native Americans stalking through the forest with a bow and arrow in search of food. But by the European entrada, most of the calories… READ MORE
November 21, 2024
Thomas Rowan was the son of Irish immigrants, who settled in Saint Clair County, Alabama in c.1854. He later purchased 130 acres in Leeds and built a home along an… READ MORE
November 4, 2024
On a sunshiny Saturday at Desoto State Park in Fort Payne, very small winged creatures that prefer to make their home in dark caves came out to say hello. Or… READ MORE
October 30, 2024
It was raining late in the evening of March 3, 1956, when brothers Billy Howard and Robert Earl Dye and their older cousin, Dan Brasher, left a relative’s house in… READ MORE
