Tag: Heritage
Ask McGehee: What is the history of the median on Spring Hill Avenue?
There has been a median on Spring Hill Avenue since at least 1860 when Col. Lorenzo Madison Wilson incorporated the Mobile and Spring...
The Fiery Debate
I’ve seen fire at work. One morning, I drove past a pitcher plant bog, a tangle of grasses and forbs. By...
Line Drives and Lipstick
Growing up in Prichard in the 1930s and ’40s, Delores Brumfield wasn’t like the other girls. Instead of making paper dolls and...
Portrait of a Lady
Entering Stevi Gaston’s backyard studio for the first time, I spot a lone floral still life peeking out from amongst a dozen...
Literary Charm
To read one of Margaret Cunningham’s three novels is to be carried away on a light and entertaining romp that suggests nothing so...
Advantage Mobile
At a Dauphin Street dive bar recently, I stood tableside and watched my buddy close out yet another pool victory. Eight ball,...
Ask McGehee: Was there ever a fort at Spanish Fort?
The Baldwin County community draws its name from an actual fort, which was built by Spanish troops in a classic European design...
Catching Alligators
I learned about catching alligators from my neighbor, Butch Dobson. His camp looks like a mobile home jacked up onto pilings, ...
A True Man of Letters
How do you find the universal in the particular?” asks Mobile Bay-area wordsmith Roy Hoffman while we enjoy a relaxing lunch on the...
Snippets from Southern Pages
From the Foreword by Walter Edgar And it is Sledge’s love of books, his passion for the written word, that...