Roy Hoffman
Saying Goodbye to a Store that Felt Like My Family’s Ancestral Home
Author Roy Hoffman on the closing of his family's beloved Downtown Mobile furniture store, as published in The Washington Post.
Exploring Mobile’s Sister City with the Mobile-Havana Society
A traveler discovers the complex layers of the history, architecture and people of Havana, Cuba.
A Mobile Original: Judy Culbreth
Local author and trailblazer Judy Culbreth’s latest book tells the stories of two remarkable women whose strength mirrors her own.
Bill Barrick’s Bellingrath: The Garden of His Life
After two decades as executive director of Mobile County’s natural “cathedral,” Bill Barrick retires from a career of stewardship.
The Amazing Life of Frye Gaillard
Explore the life and impact of an activist writer with storied perspectives.
The Amazing Life of William Oppenheimer
At 4:30 a.m., while the town is sleeping, a Mobile businessman and grandfather is already up, music on his...
From Mobile to Paris
Whenever my wife, Nancy, and I have the good fortune to travel from Fairhope to Paris, we contact Phil and Mary...
Rooted in Baldwin
What does it mean to be part of a place? To be shaped by the landscape and seascape, to create a sense of...
Weathering Trials
From Chapter 2, “Men In Uniform” The Cotton Gin was a sleek white hotel and casino along the Highway 90...
An Independent Woman
For all the delights of my first trip to New York City in 1964, the summer I turned 11, none was...
