Tag: History
The Perfect Pond
A couple of years out of college, I was still living with my parents in Point Clear, but I was ready for a...
Playin' in the Mud
Mobilians’ relationship status with bay mud is complicated. The powerful Mobile River cuts a deep, carving path as it flows but fans out and...
Ask McGehee
In 1914, Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. The idea for such a day stretched back to 1868 when...
Point Clear Towing
Point Clear never really had enough year-round residents to support a whole bunch of services. If you had a fire, you called the Barnwell...
Citronelle's Wonderboy
At some point, Carvel William “Bama” Rowell must have asked himself, “What’s a guy gotta do to get a free watch?” When...
Timber!
Mobile’s position as a port city was millions of years in the making: layers of the Earth’s crust pressed and folded against one another,...
Ask McGehee
Yes, a lynching took place on the southeast corner of Church and St. Emanuel streets (when those two streets used to intersect) in...
Dirty Jobs
First and foremost in my memory of horrible tasks was cleaning out the grease trap. I didn’t get suspicious of this particular responsibility until I...
Ask McGehee
For several years during the 1950s, the reigning Miss America would come to Mobile to open the city’s popular Azalea Trail. Perhaps the...
A Brief History of the Shotgun House
Learn more about the history of the shotgun house and the new generation taking aim at repurposing them for a multitude of uses.