SNOWBOUND AT CHRISTMAS by Inez McCollum When my brother and I were young children, getting to our grandparents in the winter time could be a very precarious situation. We would travel on a mountain road from Piedmont, AL into Cleburne County. This was before the road was black-topped. Many times during the winter it was […]
More of this story can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories Burnt Corn Creek is a creek in the northern part of Escambia County and a tributary to the Conecuh River. The name is derived from a “large spring, which bursts from beneath the hill below the village” of the same […]
Extreme sports are not new. There were many stuntmen, often called ‘death dodgers’ that put on shows at state fairs throughout the country in the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 50s. Check out these amazing newsreels of events that took place in Birmingham, Alabama in the early 1900s of Helen Howell, the Dynamite Lady, and Blaine, a Pilot who […]
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