Tag: History
Integration Remembered
On June 11, 1963, the eyes of the nation watched, through the black and white lenses of news cameras, as...
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Eugenia Levy Phillips, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, came to Mobile as a 16-year-old newlywed in 1836. She had married...
Arrival
When I was 15, I told my father I wanted to work construction. He suggested I get in touch with Kenny Horton who...
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In 1838, following a series of yellow fever epidemics, a Catholic orphan’s asylum was established in Mobile on Conti Street across from...
Bravo Italiana
Daphne, Alabama. A moniker rooted in Greek mythology, but an identity steeped in Italian culture. Immigrants with names such as Luigi, ...
The Battle of Mobile Bay Revisited
Every Old Mobile family worth its salt will claim a blockade runner somewhere in the family tree. Heaven knows plenty of daring men attempted to run...
Pajama Fishing
As summer slips into the heavy heat, afternoons on the Bay turn rough and windy. By one o’clock, magazine pages are aflutter. Glasses...
What’s in a Name?
  Thomas Gaillard, Frye Gaillard and Gaillard Teague  Imagine the first day of school. Students enter the classroom and find...
If Walls Could Talk
Just walking past it on the Point Clear boardwalk, you suspect, somehow, that there must be stories. The Bestor House, ...
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In September 1979, Mobile was hit with Hurricane Frederic, its costliest storm to date. Thousands of trees fell, knocking down power lines....