Tag: Ask McGehee
Port City (Trivial) Pursuit
1. Legend has it the Copeland outlaw gang buried ____________________ in water-proof kegs in Wragg Swamp, the name of the area where...
Spotlight on Courtland Barker
It’s not easy being Courtland Barker. You try commanding 125 teenagers. It takes leadership; it takes focus. It takes a drum major. LeFlore...
Good to the Last Drop
In a bygone era before the automatic bean grinders, electric coffee percolators and Starbucks’ steamed half-caf latte concoctions, the black brew...
Iron Men
What a game it would be. If the Fountain of Youth could be discovered behind the spigot of a Gatorade cooler, the...
Ten Years Gone
The embossed leather and brass fire helmet, above, similar in design to those worn by many fire fighters, belonged to a...
A Doggone Good Time
I realized a few weeks ago that my dog no longer sports the trim figure I remembered from his youth. The Red Dog used...
Ask McGehee: Magnolia Manor
 In June 1931, the homeowner, local defense attorney Foster Kirksey Hale Jr., was gunned down by his former mistress in his...
Old Iron
For the agriculturally inclined, there must be something almost tender and seductive about restoring antique tractors. It has to be better than my...
Ask McGehee: 1116 Government St.
Coca-Cola bottler Walter Bellingrath had the structure built, but it was never part of his gardens on Fowl River.Bellingrath and his wife, ...
Ask McGehee: Silver Collection at Museum of Mobile
Col. Edward Lafayette Russell came to Mobile in 1875 as a legal representative for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which was in bankruptcy....
