Spring 2023, Issue 148 [TUSCALOOSA, ALA., April 2023] — The Spring 2023 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine highlights the Renaissance of Mobile, Alabama, from the 1920s to the 1960s. For nearly forty years, the city of Mobile experienced an artistic and cultural flourishing that encompassed visual art, architecture, literature, and, of course, carnival.
Important figures in this Renaissance included painter Roderick Dempster MacKenzie; muralists Edmond deCelle, John Augustus Walker, and Conrad Albrizio; sculptors Craig Turner Sheldon and Julian Lee Rayford; architecture advocates Marian Acker Macpherson, Chichi Glennon, Lasley, and Ethel Creighton; writers William March, Eugene Walter, and Marie Layet Sheip.
Other features include a review of Gov. Emmett O’Neal’s “Good Roads Movement”, a feature on Zora Neale Hurston’s travels to Honduras, and the 2023 Places In Peril list.
After Prohibition and railroad concerns were resolved or dominated by others, O’Neal settled on advancing the “Good Roads Movement,” an effort to bring systematic construction and maintenance of roads and bridges to the state. O’Neal worked on roads throughout his career, proclaiming Good Roads Days, supporting the creation of the State Highway Commission.
Written by University of Alabama history professor, Sharony Green, She examines the importance of Hurston’s travels outside of the United States, especially those to Honduras. Best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston spent a significant part of her life researching different cultural, historical, and anthropological concerns, all of which coalesced in her attempts to locate a “mystery city” in Honduras.
Since 1994 the Alabama Historical Commission, the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation, and Alabama Heritage have partnered to promote Places in Peril, a public awareness program highlighting significant endangered historic properties in Alabama. This year’s landmarks include multiple structures with connections to the state’s African American history.
Regular departments including Alabama Governors, Portraits and Landscapes, From the Archives, and much more.
Other features include a review of Gov. Emmett O’Neal’s “Good Roads Movement”, a feature on Zora Neale Hurston’s travels to Honduras, and the 2023 Places In Peril list.
After Prohibition and railroad concerns were resolved or dominated by others, O’Neal settled on advancing the “Good Roads Movement,” an effort to bring systematic construction and maintenance of roads and bridges to the state. O’Neal worked on roads throughout his career, proclaiming Good Roads Days, supporting the creation of the State Highway Commission.
Written by University of Alabama history professor, Sharony Green, She examines the importance of Hurston’s travels outside of the United States, especially those to Honduras. Best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston spent a significant part of her life researching different cultural, historical, and anthropological concerns, all of which coalesced in her attempts to locate a “mystery city” in Honduras.
Since 1994 the Alabama Historical Commission, the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation, and Alabama Heritage have partnered to promote Places in Peril, a public awareness program highlighting significant endangered historic properties in Alabama. This year’s landmarks include multiple structures with connections to the state’s African American history.
Regular departments including Alabama Governors, Portraits and Landscapes, From the Archives, and much more.
