March 21, 2025
On May 3, 1895, Susan Helen Porter presented a photo of Susan B. Anthony to the Tuskegee Women’s Club, a collective of African American women centered at Tuskegee Normal and… READ MORE
March 19, 2025
Every relationship has its problems, and sometimes the basic nature of a relationship must be called into question. Such is the case with seemingly simple creatures called lichens.
March 17, 2025
Born in Virginia in 1799 and educated in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Reuben Chapman traveled to Alabama at age twenty-five to join his brother, a Huntsville attorney. After reading law in… READ MORE
Toward the end of Walden, Henry David Thoreau reminisces that “In October I went agraping to the river meadows, and loaded myself with cluster more precious for their beauty and… READ MORE
Of all the writers, painters, poets, and artists who devoted themselves to the late-nineteenth century movement known as Aestheticism, few left as lasting an impression as Oscar Wilde. As well… READ MORE
March 6, 2025
As spring hurries toward summer and evening temperatures rise, so does the decibel level at Alabama ponds and puddles. Every night, in a ceremony that pre-dates the dinosaurs, male frogs… READ MORE
Naturalists are notorious for turning seemingly mundane objects into mini-lessons and short sermons. And few Alabama trees offer more instant lecture material than the black walnut.
March 1, 2025
Joshua Martin, a descendent of French Huguenots, was born in Blount County, Tennessee, in 1799, and educated by local ministers there. At age twenty he moved with his family to… READ MORE
February 25, 2025
Benjamin Fitzpatrick was twice elected governor and later became an influential national figure in the US Senate. Born in Greene County, Georgia, on June 30, 1802, Fitzpatrick was orphaned at… READ MORE
February 20, 2025
Arthur Pendleton Bagby, born in 1794 in Louisa County, Virginia, migrated with his family to Monroe County in the Alabama territory. It was here that Bagby read law and opened… READ MORE
