Tag: History
Shrimping
A Mobile-made Stauter boat has long served as the vessel of choice for father-son fishing expeditions...
Shooting the Breeze
On Mobile Bay, a cool breeze is a commodity, as tangible as the sweaty glass of lemonade in your hand and the porch...
Gone to Texas
As a youngster, I couldn’t even imagine what other people did in summer without Mobile Bay to entertain them. I assumed they were...
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.