Tag: Heritage
New Mobile Tree Trail: Sharing the love for Mobile’s Nature and Past
See this updated trail featuring the 15 trees that best represent our beautiful and diverse city.
Black-Eyed Peas
With a little bit of preparation, you can bring an earthy and satisfying bowl of black-eyed peas to your New Year’s table — and hopefully some good luck along with it.
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?