Tag: February 2016
Into the Wild: Part II
Read Part I of "Into the Wild" IÂ was determined to spend two weeks in the Alabama River bottom swamp with little more than a bow, arrows and...
Life after Lee
It seems especially cruel how wonderful the weather is on the drive to Monroeville on Saturday. It's one of the year's few transition days — the days on the calendar that...
10 Best Local Brunches
1. R Bistro & Pastry Where: 334 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope When: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. | Sundays What to Get: Anything that's covered in crawfish gravy—rice, ...
Recipe: Zucchini Bread Protein Pancakes
You may have heard a time or two that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This couldn't be more true for food blogger and dietitian Meme...
Ask McGehee
  ABOVE LEFT Amelia Townsend McTyeire was a Mobile native whose husband, Holland McTyeire, a former minister at St. Francis Street Methodist Church, was a...
Ascending the Ladder
A little after noon on a clear, unseasonably warm October day, I find myself on the way to Dauphin Island with Dave Berault. Dave is a Mobile...
The Amazing Life of Mark Johnson
Cops can’t lose fights. That’s not to say they’re incapable of losing fights — just that losing one is not an option. Because wherever there’s a cop, ...
Mobile Ironwork
In 1864, in response to protests from the Mobile Daily Register for better illumination Downtown, the City of Mobile erected more than 200 cast-iron lampposts. Despite years...
From Mobile to Paris
Whenever my wife, Nancy, and I have the good fortune to travel from Fairhope to Paris, we contact Phil and Mary Hyman. We look forward to...
Ordering the Myths and Facts
Organized into three brief parts to make it accessible even for those who don’t normally like reading histories, Ann Pond’s new books cover the origins of the Carnival...