Tag: History
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, ...
Ask McGehee
In September 1979, Mobile was hit with Hurricane Frederic, its costliest storm to date. Thousands of trees fell, knocking down power lines....
The Grand Hotel
Point Clear has always provided a quality of life that allows it to stand on its own, but the Grand Hotel makes it...
Views from the Hill Top
During the early 19th century, in an effort to escape the humidity of the Mobile River and the yellow fever epidemic that came with...
First Cars
IÂ always assumed that the clandestine street racers I heard late at night originated from, or at least had connections with, the shade...
The Fall of Mobile
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on April 12, 1865, Confederate Mobile surrendered to Federal troops. The city’s strategic...
Ask McGehee
In 1920, all of America went dry as the federal government outlawed the manufacture, transportation or sale of alcoholic beverages. And almost immediately, ...
