I grew up in Alabama and on hot summer days we had to find ways to entertain ourselves and endure the heat without air-conditioning. These are my top 20 summer-time memories. How did you stay entertain yourself and stay cool during the hot southern days before air-conditioning? Spent evenings outdoors catching fireflies (we called them lightening bugs) […]
On September 18, 1903, in Alabama a strange fissure developed in Madison County and cotton crop deteriorated (Transcribed Extract from The Atmore Record Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama, September 18, 1903) ALABAMA STATE NEWS Cotton Crop Deteriorates Commission of Agriculture R. E. Poole stated last week that the cotton crop has deteriorated 25 per cent, in […]
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 By the kindness of the friends of the distinguished Institutions of learning and piety in Marion, I am enabled to give the public the following and well […]
The Encyclopedia Purchase and the Explosive Result by Raymond E. Hall Somewhere along in the early 50s, my Uncle Carl decided to sell the World Book encyclopedias to as many families of his students as he could. He used as a sales pitch to the parents that "purchasing a set of encyclopedias for the family […]
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