JEHU WELLINGTON VANDIVER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY September 17, 1850 – August 16, 1934 Talladega, Alabama Lawyer, editor, lecturer, Mr. Vandiver was born September 17, 1850, at Alexandria, Calhoun County; son of John Harrington and Mary Eliza Emma (McAfee) Vandiver, the former who was born in Spartanburg District, S. C., practiced medicine, was selected as electoral […]
Former Patron story – (WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of this former slave and may be offensive to readers today. We have transcribed the words exactly as written. Please consider the time and culture of the day and do not read if you are offended.) W.P.A. […]
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald an American novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Alabama. Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald 1921 She was an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband “the first American Flapper.” After the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), the Fitzgeralds became celebrities. The […]
(Excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) APPROACHING MARRIAGE The following invitations have been received by the many friends of Miss Mayme Crouch: Mrs. Lenna Crouch-Hood requests the honor of your company at the marriage of her sister Miss Mayme Crouch-Hood to Mr. Robt. West Walker, on Wednesday evening, February the seventeenth […]
Angels and Otherwise in New York City "What do you mean you can't find it? We HAVE to find it." I whisper-yelled at my wife, Jane. Customarily I would have used my loud yell, but an undetermined number of strangers and eighty-five other Shades Mountain Baptist Church (SMBC) singers and instrumentalists, were well within ear […]
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