The Spring 2019 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine features author Emily McMackin’s detailed look at the Kate Duncan Smith Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) School in Marshall County. What started as a viral post about the school’s founding on the Alabama Heritage Facebook page, the magazine’s editors knew the school and its history were worthy of a cover story. Built on land donated by the community, with local families helping construct the original building, the DAR school construction began in October 1923. Funds were raised by the Alabama Daughters and local community groups to furnish the classrooms. The school continues to elevate the community around it with more than half of the teachers and staff as alumni.
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Regular departments found in the Spring 2019 issue of Alabama Heritage include Southern Architecture & Preservation, Behind the Image, From the Archives, Nature Journal, Reading the Southern Past, and much more.
- Historian James Noles Jr. calls up the Alabamians of West Point’s Class of 1944. A handful of Alabamians entered West Point in the uneasy summer before Pearl Harbor; seventy-five years ago, they graduated into a world at war.
- Descended from a founding family of Jasper, Lycurgus Breckinridge “Breck” Musgrove spent his life encouraging the growth of his community. Author Pamela Jones uncovers the flamboyance of the Jasper-born bon vivant. He was allegedly, for a time, the state’s richest man, an internationally known industrialist, a relentless promoter of his hometown, a fervent supporter of education, a philanthropist, a newspaper owner, a real-estate tycoon, and an almost rabid Prohibitionist.
- Hundreds of Alabamians contributed to the completion of the Panama Canal, the greatest political and engineering feat of the Modern Age. Contributor and historian Scotty Kirkland details the contributions made, including the raw materials and products from throughout the state that poured into Panama.
Regular departments found in the Spring 2019 issue of Alabama Heritage include Southern Architecture & Preservation, Behind the Image, From the Archives, Nature Journal, Reading the Southern Past, and much more.
