Tag: Heritage
The Shipwrecks of Mobile Bay
From the upper Delta to the lower Bay and adjacent Gulf waters, shipwrecks crowd our shores. It’s little wonder, since people have...
It’s the Humidity
It’s in the air we breathe, but what do you know about humidity?
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Even a remote community such as Point Clear had its share of transients. Sometimes they arrived on bicycles, sometimes on foot with tall...
Ask McGehee
While many Mobilians may believe that the Government Street median east of Royal Street was created to hold the 1900 statue of Admiral Raphael...
Snapper Catch, 1895
Over a century ago, fishermen still sought the red fish, preparing hook, line and sinker. ORIGINAL PHOTO FROM THE DOY LEALE MCCALL...
Shanties by the Bay
Sea shanties (also known as chanteys) were slow-paced songs which gangs of working men — or “shantymen” or “shantyboys” — sang to pace the...
Mobile Skyline, 1935
An unknown man peers across the Bay at the Mobile skyline, a view instantly recognizable 82 years later. ORIGINAL PHOTO FROM THE...
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Major’s Creek
With Gulf Shores, Mobile Bay and the Mobile-Tensaw Delta in our own backyard, there’s...
Pirate Attack!
On September 9, 1710, ...
Ask McGehee
I found an old bottle marked “Fosko” and “Mobile.” What was Fosko?