Tag: History
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...
Ask McGehee
A quarantine station was established on Dauphin Island for the port of Mobile in 1882. It would ultimately be one of more than 100 designed...
The Green Station Wagon
When I think of Point Clear in the depths of winter, I recall the sounds. Many nights I lay in my bed, ...
Reader's Choice
The 150th anniversary of the Civil War has been marked by an avalanche of good books. Besides the...
The Longest Day of the Year
By the time Christmas arrived in Point Clear, the Bay was too cold and rough and shallow to enjoy. The wharf house existed...
That Old Mobile Joy
It was a bleak December afternoon — overcast, chilly, the light rapidly fading. We were driving on one of Downtown’s less favored...
Ask McGehee
There has been a St. Mary Church at the southwestern corner of Lafayette Street and Old Shell Road since just after the end of...
Hunting Season
Fall in Point Clear is like a party that is over, cleaned up and waiting until summer again. The air is quiet and...
Ask McGehee
Betty Bienville was a pen name used by Nettie Chandler (1869 - 1943) and her sister, Mary (1875 - 1956). Both were descendants...
