Monday, January 31, 2022

PATRON – Do you know the name of the college in Alabama (still exists) that was once the leading college in the South?...

 
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PATRON – Do you know the name of the college in Alabama (still exists) that was once the leading college in the South?

Today, LaGrange College is a private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college, affiliated with the Methodist Church in LaGrange, Georgia. LaGrange College actually opened its doors as a female college in 1831. But another college named LaGrange, also affiliated with the United Methodist Church, opened it’s doors in Alabama in 1830 and is still in […]

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FORGOTTEN PHOTOS: Lyric Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama – a treasure that is now saved

The old Lyric theatre in Birmingham, Alabama has an interesting history. Located on the corner of Third Avenue and Eighteenth Street, it was originally built and operated as a vaudeville theatre and was the last theatre in Birmingham built exclusively for live professional performances. Lyric Theatre under construction in 1912 (photograph by Oscar V. Hunt […]

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PATRON + Reflections about the city of Birmingham in 1874

In 1874, Birmingham, Alabama was a new city, only three years old. and when Thanksgiving drew near, the Birmingham Iron Age, published an article about the fledgling community which has been transcribed below: BIRMINGHAM Our little city is now approaching the end of the third year of its municipal existence, and it becomes us to […]

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AUTHOR SUNDAY – "To supplement his GI Bill income he had tutored Bear Bryant's football boys – china was too expensive"

Cute story reveals a little about life in the 1950s….. China Teardrops by Joyce Ray Wheeler It was September of the year 1953. A very young mathematics professor had just moved with his young wife and two very young sons to the city of Birmingham, Alabama. They had rented a very small house on 7th […]

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