Thursday, February 27, 2020

The day the Birmingham police helped the University of Alabama football mascot retrieve his paws...

 
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The day the Birmingham police helped the University of Alabama football mascot retrieve his paws

Big Al at football stadium   Big Al (Mascot of University of Alabama) and the Lost Paws It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the South. The Alabama and LSU game at Legion Field Stadium in Birmingham was about to begin. This was 1985 or 1986. The usual fanfare was expected. Big Al and the […]

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PATRON + The south is known for front porches, but Brantley, Alabama has been dubbed "the front porch capital of the south"

Brantley was established on 40 acres of property purchased from Thomas H. Wyatt by the Brantley Land Company. It was first called Sasserville, then Marcus and finally renamed Brantley after T. K. Brantley. Brantley, Alabama is 25 miles southwest of Troy, and about 10 miles south of Luvern in Crenshaw County, Alabama. Population in 1910—-803; […]

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PATRON – June 10, 1875 – Legal Notices from Cherokee Advertiser, Centre, Alabama

Transcribed from the Cherokee Advertiser, Centre, Alabama, June 10, 1875 FREDERICK KAISER vs. Cornwall Iron Works Company, H. D. Cothran, Thomas McCulloch, Robert Marsahll et als – In Chancery at Centre, Ala., Tenth District, Eastern Chancery Division. In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by the affidavit of Thomas Bradford, one […]

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PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS Drones of 1937 were much larger and you could ride in them

Occasionally, I run across a vintage film or picture that is not about Alabama, but is just too good not to share. This is one. I guess you could call this a drone from the past.  Here is an amazing view of Paris from above that I ran across and thought I’d share. Dirigibles were […]

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Biography: Rev. John Wesley Starr August 7, 1809

This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1)   REV. JOHN WESLEY STARR BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY(1808 – 1870) EARLY BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEER The history of John Wesley Starr was recorded in the Green County Democrat in 1956. Sadly, his gravesite had been abandoned until my gr-uncle […]

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