Tag: Heritage
All Hail the Meat and Three
Deeply traditional and delightfully calorific, the meat and three reflects the resourcefulness and creativity of Southern cooks during hard times.
Young Oyster Tongers, 1911
A supposed 14-year-old digs for oysters in the Bay.
A Mobile Classic Turns 70
“Remember Mobile” — a romantic, affectionate look at our past in prose and drawings — is a book still worth remembering.
Ask McGehee
What’s the history of the building on Broad Street that once housed the Red Cross?
Mobile’s Borrowing Habit
Writer Frances Beverly recounts some of the most egregious borrowers of 19th-century Mobile.
Ask McGehee
Was a Mobile bookstore closed for selling a copy of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?
Judge Roy Bean
Locals gather to reminisce about the beloved Daphne watering hole, with its bushwackers, great live music and a goat named Billy. Founder Jack West would be proud.
Ask McGehee
When was Mobile’s airport downtown?
National Geographic Revisited
MB looks back at a 50-year-old feature story about our fair city. “Mobile, Alabama’s city in motion”
Funny Mobile Customs
Writer Frances Beverly documents some of historic Mobile’s most bizarre practices.