Tag: Featured Articles
South on the Rise
THENÂ Even when the school opened back in 1964, its founders were always looking toward future expansion. Here, USA founding president Dr. Frederick P. Whiddon...
Marked by Excellence
Big, colorful and visible from blocks away, simple cut-metal markers designate Mobile’s most historic and beautifully restored properties. From downtown Dauphin Street...
Raising Cain
From Chapter 3: Post-Civil War Mardi Gras “The City (Mobile) is a sad picture to contemplate. The people look sad and sorry. The...
Those Rare Mobile Winters
Mobile has four seasons, wags say – early summer, middle summer, late summer and January. By this calculus, February shouldn’t...
Young Pioneers
Jean Baptiste Le Moyne,  Sieur de Bienville, Founder Young adults have long played important roles in Alabama’s Port City. In fact,...
Guiding Light
On a clear day, it can be spotted from the Fairhope Municipal Pier, a little geometrical oddity standing on the horizon, ...
Pangea’s Handiwork
Looking out over Mobile Bay when the wind is calm and the water reflects the sky, it’s hard to imagine that only a...
Celtics Unite
Although our founding fathers were French, the Bay area boasts a rich Celtic culture dating back hundreds of years. While it wasn’t always...
Wilde Card
One of 19th-century Mobile’s most colorful and memorable visitors was Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde. The flamboyant Irishman was touring the United States in...
Salute to our Sister Cities
A directional marker stands at Fort Condé with arrows pointing to faraway places. Each arrow represents a Mobile sister city, encouraging global thinking and begging...