Tag: History
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...
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, ...
