Ask McGehee: What is the history of Constantine’s Restaurant?
Constantine Panayiotou was a Greek immigrant who had come to Chicago in 1913 where he started out as a dishwasher and learned the restaurant...
The Pirate Navigator
On the cusp of the 18th century, great changes were underway in the Gulf of Mexico. Spain’s almost two-centuries-long grip on the region...
Convicts
Before they were famous, we called them sheepshead. They were as useless as a channel cat. Trash fish. I vividly recall struggling to...
Spring Hill's Eleven
Campus ambassadors at Spring Hill College have a little joke they like to toss out while touring prospective students around the school. “Our athletics...
King Cotton
It’s in your clothes and even your money. Learn about Alabama’s cotton chronicles.
Ask McGehee
On October 2, 1948, some 20, 000 Mobilians jammed into the new Ladd Stadium for a football game. The Alabama Crimson Tide played...
Ask McGehee
Trying to explain who Eugene Walter was is never easy. He has been described as a poet, a novelist, an artist, ...
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In 1904, Annie Louise Waterman (whose husband would later found Waterman Steamship Co.) met with a group of local boys to discuss the...
Pioneering Ono
Ham Wilson hadn’t heard from his grandfather in days. Any other week and this wouldn’t have been unusual. When Pappy was at his house...
The True Story of the ‘Rachel’
Historian John S. Sledge shares the remarkable tale of the antique ship that graces the shores of Fort Morgan.