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...
Crawfishing
ABOVE Watt’s daughter, Mary Michael, his son, Albert, center, and Albert’s friend, John Michael Nipper, take...
Smokey the Squirrel
Early spring on the Bay brings high tides and wet, windy weather like a fitful ending to a nasty winter. But to an...
Playin' in the Mud
Mobilians’ relationship status with bay mud is complicated. The powerful Mobile River cuts a deep, carving path as it flows but fans out and...
Point Clear Towing
Point Clear never really had enough year-round residents to support a whole bunch of services. If you had a fire, you called the Barnwell...
Dirty Jobs
First and foremost in my memory of horrible tasks was cleaning out the grease trap. I didn’t get suspicious of this particular responsibility until I...
Into the Wild: Part II
Read Part I of "Into the Wild" I was determined to spend two weeks in the Alabama River bottom swamp with little more than...
5 Things to Watch For in 2016
1. Carnival’s re-launch at the Alabama Cruise Terminal The city was met with a shockwave of criticism and disappointment when Carnival jumped ship...
Who would be on Mobile Bay's Mount Rushmore?
For purely hypothetical purposes, the MBM staff was recently discussing the following question: What if the Bay area had its own version of Mount...
British Invasion
MB Editorial Assistant Breck Pappas with Becky (left) and Ruth (right) While we were living in New Zealand, my English...