Spotlight: Sjon A. Harless
Mobile native Sjon A. Harless has been catching world-record fish for seven years. The International Game and Fish Association’s top female saltwater angler...
Nature’s Playground
The Statue of Liberty of the Gulf Coast. That’s what Fairhope artist Dean Mosher calls a 42-foot-tall sculpture that stands as the new...
March Madness (Or Something Like It)
Not known as a parading society, the Athelstan Club’s members nevertheless circled Bienville Square in a stream of Chevrolet Z71 Tahoes as the Tuesday...
Triple Play
The perfect swimsuit is a hot commodity – almost as hard to find as identical triplets, which only occur one out of...
Happy Trails
With trim white fences, sweeping oak trees and a handsome red barn, a horse stable skirts the western edge of Mobile....
Ask McGehee: What is the history of the median on Spring Hill Avenue?
There has been a median on Spring Hill Avenue since at least 1860 when Col. Lorenzo Madison Wilson incorporated the Mobile and Spring...
Spotlight: Frances Sibley
Frances Sibley’s connection to Murphy High School runs deep. The class of ’59 graduate returned to her alma mater in 1971 to teach...
Line Drives and Lipstick
Growing up in Prichard in the 1930s and ’40s, Delores Brumfield wasn’t like the other girls. Instead of making paper dolls and...
The Mediterranean Diet Made Easy
The Happy Olive
For years, as the principal of Fairhope K-1 Center, Vickie Bailey devoted her time and energy to improving the young minds of...
Swamp Writer: The Landing
Pie owns the landing where I launch my boat. Her office is an old abandoned nightclub on the riverbank. From here, she...
