Far from a Boar
Many Mobilians are very surprised to hear about the abundance of feral pigs throughout our area and the state in general. They’re even more surprised to learn that the...
The Big Ride
Immediately after college, I returned home to live with my parents again in Point Clear. I didn’t have a detailed life plan, but I knew I wanted...
Dove Hunting
In Point Clear, the first sign that waterfront activities are over is the sound of doves cooing and fluttering in the tree limbs. I take more notice of...
A Letter Home
William G. Caffey, a Mobilian stationed in Hawaii with the Army, wrote the following letter home a little more than a month after the attack on Pearl...
Shrimping
A Mobile-made Stauter boat has long served as the vessel of choice for father-son fishing expeditions for the Key men. ...
Shooting the Breeze
On Mobile Bay, a cool breeze is a commodity, as tangible as the sweaty glass of lemonade in your hand and the porch beneath your toes. Before air...
Gone to Texas
As a youngster, I couldn’t even imagine what other people did in summer without Mobile Bay to entertain them. I assumed they were all in a holding pattern...
Once Upon a Time
A Pirate’s Life for Me Aye, me mateys, there be swashbucklers in these parts. Details are sketchy, but the story goes that in 1710 or...
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The Great Escape
Years passed before Sophia revisited Fort Morgan Beach. She was well traveled, having cruised the Atlantic Ocean before returning to her birthplace — to lay eggs. Sophia...
Houses of Worship
Transport yourselves back into the early 1830s. The Catholics met in a building described by a seminarian as a “poor barn” in which “it was impossible to say mass when...