Tag: Featured Articles
Integration Remembered
On June 11, 1963, the eyes of the nation watched, through the black and white lenses of news cameras, as...
Let the Mullets Fly
ABOVE To kick off the festivities, children parade on the pier waving the stars and stripes, singing “She’s a Grand Ole Flag.” Hostess...
Bravo Italiana
Daphne, Alabama. A moniker rooted in Greek mythology, but an identity steeped in Italian culture. Immigrants with names such as Luigi, ...
Scenic Views
For those of us with aging memories of the sparsely populated agrarian landscape that once defined the area, today’s drive through Baldwin County...
The Battle of Mobile Bay Revisited
Every Old Mobile family worth its salt will claim a blockade runner somewhere in the family tree. Heaven knows plenty of daring men attempted to run...
What’s in a Name?
Thomas Gaillard, Frye Gaillard and Gaillard Teague Imagine the first day of school. Students enter the classroom and find...
If Walls Could Talk
Just walking past it on the Point Clear boardwalk, you suspect, somehow, that there must be stories. The Bestor House, ...
Views from the Hill Top
During the early 19th century, in an effort to escape the humidity of the Mobile River and the yellow fever epidemic that came with...
The Fall of Mobile
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on April 12, 1865, Confederate Mobile surrendered to Federal troops. The city’s strategic...
Westward Expansion
West Mobile. Where is it exactly? What comprises it? What are we to make of it? Questions like these periodically arise as Mobile continues...