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A Mobile Classic Turns 70

“Remember Mobile” — a romantic, affectionate look at our past in prose and drawings — is a book still worth remembering.

Night Fishing

A poignant coming-of-age story reflects life on the Bay.

Ask McGehee

What’s the history of the building on Broad Street that once housed the Red Cross?

Mobile’s Borrowing Habit

Writer Frances Beverly recounts some of the most egregious borrowers of 19th-century Mobile.

The President is on the Line

Jack Edwards, representative for Alabama’s First Congressional District from 1965 to 1985, relates two stories that bookend his political career.

Explore the History of Clay City Tile

The orange-red tiles stand out on structures across Baldwin County. Their history is just as colorful.

Special Delivery, 1919

Hammel’s airborne shipping strategy

Ask McGehee

Was a Mobile bookstore closed for selling a copy of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?

Ask McGehee

When was Mobile’s airport downtown?

National Geographic Revisited

MB looks back at a 50-year-old feature story about our fair city. “Mobile, Alabama’s city in motion”

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