Tag: History
Marked by Excellence
Big, colorful and visible from blocks away, simple cut-metal markers designate Mobile’s most historic and beautifully restored properties. From downtown Dauphin Street...
Our Wild Pet Rooster
Late winter on the Bay is wet and windy and cold. I recall staring out the front windows, watching waves crash against the...
Ask McGehee
Mobile seems to have a history of becoming dissatisfied with its public meeting spaces. Each generation has touted a new auditorium or meeting space...
Ask McGehee
One of Government Street’s most enduring landmarks is the LaClede Building with its cast-iron gallery that stretches over 250 feet west from St. Emanuel...
Raising Cain
From Chapter 3: Post-Civil War Mardi Gras “The City (Mobile) is a sad picture to contemplate. The people look sad and sorry. The...
A Night at Middle Bay Lighthouse
AÂ few miles off the end of our family wharf and a little to the left lies Middle Bay Lighthouse, a famous Gulf Coast...
Those Rare Mobile Winters
Mobile has four seasons, wags say – early summer, middle summer, late summer and January. By this calculus, February shouldn’t...
Young Pioneers
Jean Baptiste Le Moyne,  Sieur de Bienville, Founder Young adults have long played important roles in Alabama’s Port City. In fact,...
Guiding Light
On a clear day, it can be spotted from the Fairhope Municipal Pier, a little geometrical oddity standing on the horizon, ...
Pangea’s Handiwork
Looking out over Mobile Bay when the wind is calm and the water reflects the sky, it’s hard to imagine that only a...