Tag: Heritage
A Letter Home
William G. Caffey, a Mobilian stationed in Hawaii with the Army, wrote the following letter home a little more than a month...
Operation Ivory Soap
Learn about the secret World War II operation based at the Grand Hotel and the many aircraft — and lives — it saved in the Pacific.
The Pirate Navigator
On the cusp of the 18th century, great changes were underway in the Gulf of Mexico. Spain’s almost two-centuries-long grip on the region...
The Goober Pea
In Mobile, peanuts seem to always come in tiny brown paper bags: hurled off a Mardi Gras float from the arm of a...
Spring Hill's Eleven
Campus ambassadors at Spring Hill College have a little joke they like to toss out while touring prospective students around the school. “Our athletics...
King Cotton
It’s in your clothes and even your money. Learn about Alabama’s cotton chronicles.
Ask McGehee
On October 2, 1948, some 20, 000 Mobilians jammed into the new Ladd Stadium for a football game. The Alabama Crimson Tide played...
Shrimping
A Mobile-made Stauter boat has long served as the vessel of choice for father-son fishing expeditions...
Shooting the Breeze
On Mobile Bay, a cool breeze is a commodity, as tangible as the sweaty glass of lemonade in your hand and the porch...
Gone to Texas
As a youngster, I couldn’t even imagine what other people did in summer without Mobile Bay to entertain them. I assumed they were...