Culture

Mike DowMayor of Mobile and String of Pearls VisionaryDuring his four terms as mayor of Mobile (1989 to 2005), Mike Dow helped implement a series of projects —...

Frederick Palmer WhiddonUniversity President and Entrepreneur Fred Whiddon came to Mobile in 1960 and started what was to become the University of South Alabama three years later. Whiddon personally...

Leila HollowellArts Supporter and Gallery OwnerThe owner of Gallery 54 in Midtown, the late Leila Hollowell was known to have an uncanny eye for new artistic talent. Her...

Winston GroomAuthor and Historian Born in Washington, D.C., Groom was raised in Mobile, attended UMS and graduated from the University of Alabama. He served in the...

Lonnie JohnsonInventor and EngineerScientist Lonnie Johnson won international fame and fortune with his invention of the Super Soaker water gun.Born in Mobile in 1949, Johnson’s boyhood science dreams...

Famed Mobile artist John Augustus Walker (1901 - 1967) lived and worked at the height of the Great Depression. Some of his most recognized works include his Works...

The CoopersLeaders in Waterfront EnterprisesIn 1905, Angus R. Cooper started a stevedoring business in Mobile. Today, Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Inc., located on Royal Street, has...

First published in February 1991, Mobile BayA winter hard as the times had Mobile by the collar and a sliver of moon hung in a brilliant night sky...

Michael W. FiguresSenator and Civil Rights LawyerThe flamboyant lawyer was a man of many firsts. In 1972 he was one of the first four blacks to graduate from the...