Shooting Mistletoe by Shannon Hollon For many Christmas Eve’s the Uncles, Aunts and Cousins would gather from miles around at my grandparents house(Big Mama and Big Daddy Bearden’s) in McCalla Ala. While the women folk were preparing the supper feast the men and boys(sometimes girls) dressed in their camouflage and plaid with their best squirrel […]
DR. JAMES W. or H. CRAWFORD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1822-1844) Bibb County, Alabama This is an excerpt from Compiled Records of BIBB COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME II Dr. James H. Crawford, whom Miss Sarah H. Huey married, was born in Bibb county, Ala., February 15, 1822. He received a common commercial education at Centreville. He […]
(Transcribed from The Weekly Herald (Wetumpka, Alabama, December12, 1918) STATISTICS SHOW INCREASED MORTALITY FROM INFLUENZA Notwithstanding the newspaper quotations from Surgeon General Blue to the effect that the epidemic of influenza is over, the alarming conditions in this and adjacent counties fully justifies the Local Health Board in resorting to radical quarantine measures. Statistical Government […]
(Transcribed extracts from The Silent Eye, Avondale, Jefferson County, Alabama December 14, 1901) CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS People who are born on Christmas Eve have the faculty of seeing ghosts. The old superstition is that if at midnight on Christmas Eve they call the spirit of a departed friend the apparition of the deceased will appear. Quite […]
Have you ever wondered if you are reading accurate accounts of events in history books? Can we really believe everything we read and have learned in school? What is the actual meaning of the word history? I searched several dictionaries for the meaning of the word, history, and found the following definitions: The branch of knowledge dealing […]
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