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Marked by Excellence

Big, colorful and visible from blocks away, simple cut-metal markers designate Mobile’s most historic and beautifully restored properties. From downtown Dauphin Street to Georgia Avenue, Government...

Our Wild Pet Rooster

Late winter on the Bay is wet and windy and cold. I recall staring out the front windows, watching waves crash against the bulkhead and raindrops roll down...

Ask McGehee

Mobile seems to have a history of becoming dissatisfied with its public meeting spaces. Each generation has touted a new auditorium or meeting space only to have the next...

Ask McGehee

One of Government Street’s most enduring landmarks is the LaClede Building with its cast-iron gallery that stretches over 250 feet west from St. Emanuel Street. The structure is actually made...

Raising Cain

From Chapter 3: Post-Civil War Mardi Gras “The City (Mobile) is a sad picture to contemplate. The people look sad and sorry. The best people of the City...

A Night at Middle Bay Lighthouse

A few miles off the end of our family wharf and a little to the left lies Middle Bay Lighthouse, a famous Gulf Coast landmark since the late 1800s....

Those Rare Mobile Winters

Mobile has four seasons, wags say – early summer, middle summer, late summer and January. By this calculus, February shouldn’t be considered a winter month...

Young Pioneers

Jean Baptiste Le Moyne,   Sieur de Bienville, Founder  Young adults have long played important roles in Alabama’s Port City. In fact, Mobile’s founder and guiding...

Guiding Light

On a clear day, it can be spotted from the Fairhope Municipal Pier, a little geometrical oddity standing on the horizon, looking for all the world...

Pangea’s Handiwork

Looking out over Mobile Bay when the wind is calm and the water reflects the sky, it’s hard to imagine that only a few thousand years ago, ...

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