Tag: Heritage
Ask McGehee
Trying to explain who Eugene Walter was is never easy. He has been described as a poet, a novelist, an artist, ...
Ask McGehee
In 1904, Annie Louise Waterman (whose husband would later found Waterman Steamship Co.) met with a group of local boys to discuss the...
Fruit of the Old Wise Men
Here’s a riddle for you. Which fruit will you most likely eat 28 pounds of this year? I’ll give you a hint:...
Houses of Worship
Transport yourselves back into the early 1830s. The Catholics met in a building described by a seminarian as a “poor barn” in which “it was...
Crawfishing
ABOVE Watt’s daughter, Mary Michael, his son, Albert, center, and Albert’s friend, John Michael Nipper, take...
Pioneering Ono
Ham Wilson hadn’t heard from his grandfather in days. Any other week and this wouldn’t have been unusual. When Pappy was at his house...
The Honeybee Man
A chance encounter following a bee infestation changes Watt’s mind about the buzzing, stinging insects.
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According to a 1908 account in the Mobile Register, Mr. Fernand S. Frederic was erecting “a 3-story dye house and cleaning establishment” at...
Alabama Tea
When we think about oil, it’s easy for our minds to drift to faraway, hot places: pumps in Texas, wars in...
Of Hurricanes Past
George Finkbohner Jr. explains that his mother had a theory. “She used to say that a big storm rolled through Mobile every 10 years,...