How do you like your grits served? Thou shalt not put syrup on thy Grits Thou shalt not eat thy Grits with a spoon Thou shalt not eat Cream of Wheat and call it Grits for this is blasphemy Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors Grits Thou shalt only use Salt, Butter and Cheese as […]
Andrew Jackson Beard An Inventor (1849-1921) “Andrew Jackson Beard was born a slave on a plantation near Mt. Pinson in Jefferson County, Alabama about 1849. On this farm, he spent his early life and youth working for his master, from whom his family took the name “Beard.” Milton Beard and Creasey Tatum, his parents, were […]
A Relic Left Behind – Heartwarming Reminder of Kindness in the War Between the States submitted by Virginia Tuttle (She is the 4th cousin once removed) From The Civil War News, July 2005 – “A Relic Left Behind” A Gettysburg Farmer’s Kindness to an Enemy Soldier by Giles Hayes reads: “It is a cane made […]
TWO DESSERT RECIPES FROM 1870S (Transcribed from The Times-Argus, Selma, Alabama January 27, 1870 – Originally published in the American Agriculturist) GRAHAM BREAD Take the unbolted flour of wheat, wet it with lukewarm water, and salt and yeast, knead in enough more of this flour to make it stiff, add a little molasses, and when […]
Established in 1821 when still a part of Pike County, Louisville is one of the oldest towns in Alabama and was the county seat for about two years. She had to take her roses It was hard to leave everything behind and move to the wilderness of Alabama. The story is told of a prominent […]
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