Wednesday, July 15, 2020

These vintage photographs from 1939 show how busy the cooperative store and mill in Gee’s Bend were in 1939...

 
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These vintage photographs from 1939 show how busy the cooperative store and mill in Gee's Bend were in 1939

The Pettway family held the land of Gee’s Bend until 1895 when they sold to it Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff, an attorney from Tuscaloosa. But Van de Graaff never ran the cotton plantation there; a family relative was the overseer. During the 1930s, Gee’s Bend saw a considerable shift in their community. A merchant […]

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PATRON + history (1844) of Judson College – the fifth-oldest women's college in the United States

  THE HISTORY OF MARION SKETCHES OF LIFE in Perry County, Alabama By S. A. Townes “Vive La Bagatelle.” MARION, ALABAMA Printed by Dennis Dykom 1844 Preface and Appendix continued THE JUDSON FEMALE INSTITUTE To the reputation our town has acquired, as a seat of learning, the Judson Institute has certainly contributed no inferior share. […]

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PATRON – September 18, 1903 – Some Atmore farmers were interested in growing strawberries

(Transcribed Extract from The Atmore Record Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama, September 18, 1903) LOCAL SPECS. Mr. W. M. Carney spent Tuesday in Mobile. Dr. D. C. Burson spent Wednesday in Montgomery. Mr. H. W. Currie made a flying trip to Bay Minette Wednesday. Joe Talt, Jr.,"the only Joe," is visiting relatives at Molino, Fla. Brooks […]

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PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY: How to eliminate "Flat Sour" in Canning

Excerpt from 1946 canning cookbook What is Flat Sour? Three vegetables, most generally canned, are tomatoes, corn and peas. Classified by length of processing time, the difficult vegetables are corn, peas and lima beans. These three, with one or two others, such as beets and string beans, often develop “flat sour.” This is experienced more […]

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