Tag: Life + Culture
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Bonjour, Mobile!
In the summer of 1977, Brigitte Devroute, a native of France, visited Mobile and met a young local, David...
Our Catholic Forebearers
Catholics, perhaps more than any other local group, have a history and existence that is tightly woven together with that of...
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...
Offbeat Academia
Summertime is over! It’s time for Pop-Tart breakfasts and school buses, for imaginary numbers and forgotten locker combinations. Reading, writing and ’rithmetic can give...
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...
Bringing Home History
Spider Alley. No, it’s not the title of a Stephen King novel. Paul and Pat Mayer’s Spring Hill home takes its name...