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Swamp Writer: Kitchen Music
“I don’t know how someone can like the Delta so much, ” my wife says to me one day as I load my...
Houses of Fun
As a child, the closest I got to owning a playhouse was the green storage shed in my family’s wooded backyard. It...
Thinking Outside the Lunch Box
Andolyn Fitzgerald puts a great deal of time and effort into nourishing her children in both mind and body. The amazing mother of...
Swamp Writer: My First Night in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
In the spring of 1996 I was determined to rebuild an old camp in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Miles from any road, deep...
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Wonder Kids 2012
Marlin Brutkiewicz, 17, Will Glass, 17 • Olympic Trials Competitors
How they spent their summer vacations
Following a rigorous training schedule, in late June, the Mobile...
Ask McGehee: When was Government Plaza built, and how did that design ever get...
A Mobile County Courthouse had stood on the southwest corner of Government and Royal streets since 1822. The fifth and last incarnation had...
Backyard Bites
Melissa and Steve Miller are always up for a party. The vibrant, fun couple is renowned for their energy and enthusiasm when it comes...
Authentic Throwbacks
Every Smalltown, U.S.A. has them; these are ours – people and places that stand the tests of time with grace and vigor. Birmingham photographer...
Swamp Writer: Dispatches from the Most Remote Area of Alabama
The air is still cool with the tailings of spring and the sky is deep blue. The river sparkles and flows deep and...
The Plow
In this historic photograph from the Fairhope Single Tax Colony Archives, a Baldwin County farmer puts in his crop with a horse-drawn...