Tag: History
Ask McGehee
Although converted to a recirculating fountain in 1967, this Downtown fixture was originally designed to be a trough, providing water to passing...
Government Housing
Watt Key poses with one leftover parallax computer that was discovered on the property of his...
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Since one fall day in 1973, Alabama’s only coastal lighthouse has stood forlornly alone on Sand Island. The first lighthouse here was originally...
Schoolyard Rivalry
It’s easily the most intense college football rivalry in the country — Auburn vs. Alabama. And if you live in the Heart of Dixie,...
The Ghost of Zundel’s Wharf
A typical Point Clear morning in October finds light, cool east breezes filtering through the pine trees, brushing Mobile Bay into a glassy...
That Friday Night
Exactly 50 years later, players and fans from both sides relive the titanic clash between football powerhouses Murphy and Vigor. Text by...
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Construction of the Bragg-Mitchell Mansion began in 1855, but it was not built by the famed general. It was actually erected by his...
Landfall
As a youngster in Point Clear, it never crossed my mind that hurricanes weren’t something that everyone in the world dealt with. I was...
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“Mobile’s Finest Department Store” thrived in a building that previously housed the largest laundry and dye...
The Runaway
I was 16 years old, and I’d had enough. I was sick of chores. I was sick of curfews. Sick of all the questions...