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alabamahistory archives at Yahoo:
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reverse chronological order within each section. All links are working
at the time I send this email and post them to the web page listing.

Feel free to forward this email as desired....

**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html
<http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html>

**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
http://activeculture.info/index.asp
<http://activeculture.info/index.asp>

**activeculture.info History Events
http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf <http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf>

**activeculture.info Literature Events
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AND NOW THE NEWS...

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Please note that many articles continue beyond the single web page I
have linked here. Web sites related to some articles often appear in the
"Bonus Material" section.


COMING EVENTS*HISTORY**CULTURE**DEATHS*BONUS MATERIAL

================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**Justice Without Violence
Sunday, February 04, 2007 3:30PM APT
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:00PM APT
Monday, February 19, 2007 9:00PM APT
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:30PM APT
The story of the now legendary Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956.
Locally engineered by the African American community, this nonviolent
protest to end bus segregation inspired a new era in freedom and human
rights struggles around the globe. Never has a movement so successfully
united a group of people across class, gender and age.

**Sisters Of Selma: Bearing Witness For Change
http://www.aptv.org/as/sisters/
Sunday, February 04, 2007 8:00PM APT
Sunday, February 11, 2007 3:00PM APT
Monday, February 19, 2007 8:00PM APT
This program is an unabashedly spiritual take on the Selma, Alabama,
voting rights marches of 1965 from some of its unsung foot soldiers -
Catholic nuns. Following the violence of Bloody Sunday," sisters from
around the country answered Dr. Martin Luther King's call to join the
protests in Selma. Never before in American history had avowed Catholic
women made so public a political statement. Risking personal safety to
bring change, the sisters found themselves being changed in turn - and
they tell viewers how. Selma blacks testify about the importance of
Catholic clergy in their lives, and explain why it took until the year
2000 for them to become fully enfranchised. Newfound dramatic archival
footage carries much of the story. In 2003, director Jayasri Hart
reunited the nuns to let them view themselves and the protests on tape
for the first time. Their recorded reactions help narrate the film.
Other Selmians, Catholic and Protestant, white and black, give their
views on the nuns' contributions to history. " (CC)

**Nova: Forgotten Genius [APT]
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 7:00PM APT
NOVA presents the remarkable life story of Percy Julian - not only one
of the great African-American scientists of the 20th century, but an
industrialist, self-made millionaire, humanitarian and civil-rights
pioneer. The grandson of Alabama slaves, Julian won worldwide acclaim
for his research in chemistry and broke the color barrier in American
science more than a decade before Jackie Robinson did so in baseball. He
discovered a way to turn soybeans into synthetic steroids on an
industrial scale, enabling drugs like cortisone to be widely available
to millions. In a special two-hour presentation, NOVA traces the vivid
and moving saga of Julian's dazzling scientific achievements and
sometimes stormy personal life. His largely unknown story is brought to
life with vivid period re-enactments based on newly accessible family
archives and interviews with dozens of colleagues and relatives. Tony
Award-winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson stars as Julian. Courtney B.
Vance narrates. (CC) (DVS)

**April 20: Huntsville Madison County Public Library hosts Mary Badham
on Friday, April 20, 8-10 pm at the Main Library as part of its Big Read
Series: To Kill a Mockingbird.  Preliminary Information about Big Read
programming is available at http://www.hpl.lib.al.us/thebigread

**April 21: Alabama Literary Festival.  Montgomery.  Sponsored by the
Alabama Center for the Book.  http://www.alabamabookcenter.org/


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Moundville museum to get $4 million makeover
http://tinyurl.com/yt4aco
Tuscaloosa News 2 February 2007

**Archives offers treat for [child] visitors
http://tinyurl.com/yvzza2
Montgomery Advertiser 2 February 2007

**1956 February 2- Autherine J. Lucy becomes the first African American
student to attend the University of Alabama.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Group raising money for Buffalo Soldiers park
http://tinyurl.com/2gzynk
Huntsville Times 1 February 2007

**Good old days gone, not forgotten [in Daphne]
Local couple knocked down old home, but kept fireplace built by father
http://tinyurl.com/25wob6
Mobile Press-Register 1 February 2007

**Local libraries celebrate [local] black history
http://tinyurl.com/225md4
Florence Times-Daily 1 February 2007

**b. 02-01-1916 - Helen Walpole - Birmingham, AL
actor: Sylvia Bardine "Just Plain Bill"; Frances "Lorenzo Jones"
[radio shows]

**2007 February 1: Singer and Mobile native Ray Sawyer [Dr. Hook & the
Medicine Show] turns 70.

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 2: http://tinyurl.com/3drgh4
Feb 1: http://tinyurl.com/yt549w
Mobile Press-Register

**Carter, John T. "'Rosie the Riveter' Alive and Active in Alabama.
Senior Living 13(2): 20, February 2007
[free publication distributed in central Alabama]



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**CULTURE
===========

**Billy Dee [Williams] and the kid [director]
Veteran actor teams with filmmaker on made-in-Alabama movie
'Constellation'
http://tinyurl.com/2eadva
Birmingham News 1 February 2007

**On the Q.T. with Billy Dee [Williams]
http://tinyurl.com/yvo56d
Birmingham News 1 February 2007

**Stallworth, Clarke. [Alabama is] Just One Big Front Porch.
Senior Living 13(2): 4, February 2007
[free publication distributed in central Alabama]

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**DEATHS
===========

**Alberta C. Davis, former YWCA head, dies at 58
http://tinyurl.com/24mt3k
Mobile Press-Register 1 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**A novel by an Alabama writer takes us back to the beginning of the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
http://wbhm.org/Tapestry/index.html#Fawal
The film Lawrence of Arabia tells the story of a young British officer's
efforts to enlist the help of the Arabs to defeat the Ottoman Turks,
allies of Germany, during Worl War I. Filmed in the middle east and
Spain, the movie won seven Academy Awards and is considered a classic.
As a young man fresh out of UCLA film school, Abe Fawal worked with the
director David Lean on Lawrence of Arabia as first assistant director.
It's a part of the world Fawal knows well because he was born in
Ramallah, on the West Bank of the Jordan River. Over the years, Abe
Fawal has taught film and literature at Birmingham-Southern College and
at UAB and in 1998, he wrote an award-winning novel on the struggle
between the Palestinian people and the state of Israel. On the Hills of
God tells the story of the origin of that conflict from the point of
view of an 18 year old Palestinian Christian. On the Hills of God has
just been reissued by New South Books. When he came by our studios this
week, I asked Fawal about the origin of the title.
Abe Fawal Interview
Dr. Abe Fawal is the author of On the Hills of God, recently reissued by
New South Books. Dr. Fawal speaks on the origins of the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict next Thursday at 7 p.m. at UAB.
"Tapestry" WBHM-FM 1 February 2007



***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

________________________________________
From: Capitol Book [mailto:capitolbook@...]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:27 AM
To: Capitol Book
Subject: A Saturday Event. A Bakery. Other Good Stuff.

The Capitol Book Newsletter
Friday, February 2, 2007
 
Today's Contents:
1. Frank Turner Hollon Here Tomorrow
2. A Neighborhood Leap Forward
3. Upcoming Events
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Frank Turner Hollon
Baldwin County native Frank Turner Hollon is quietly becoming one of the
most popular writers in these parts. His Point of Fracture made several
Best-of-2006 lists, including our customers' Favorite Reads list, and
his new novel, blood and circumstance, has just been published to
outstanding early reviews.
 
Here's the brief synopsis: a guy kills his brother, and perhaps it's
justifiable, so they get a psychiatrist to interview the guy, and
this novel is told as a series of transcripts of these sessions.
 
Publishers Weekly says it "(reads) like an offbeat criminal justice
version of "My Dinner With Andre."
 
Booklist says "this is a chilling story full of unexpected twists and
turns."
 
We say it's different from nearly anything you've read before, and we
say you really ought to come meet Frank HERE AT THE STORE TOMORROW,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 FROM 1-3 PM. He'll be happy to sign copies of the
new book, which is a $23 hardcover, and we'll also have copies of last
year's Point of Fracture in paperback, $13.
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Louisa's Bakery Opens!
The long neighborhood wait is over! Louisa's Bakery has finally opened
just around the corner from us, in that little strip mall on Woodley
Road right there next to Jubilee's parking lot. Folks, this is world
class baking, and unlike anything Montgomery has ever seen. If we were
you, we'd check out the menu on the website, and then maybe rethink our
Super Bowl eating plans, and then go by there.
 
Fresh bread baked on Monday, Wednesday and Friday! Pastries, desserts,
lunches! Unbelievable! Tell 'em we sent you.
 
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Upcoming Events
Call this a heads-up, but start planning for these great writers Coming
Soon:
 
Friday, Feb. 9, 2-3 PM: Mary Anna Evans with her new book, Effigies
 
Monday, Feb. 12, 11:30 - 1:30: Julia Spencer-Fleming with her new book,
All Mortal Flesh
Monday, Feb. 12, 11:30 - 1:30: Denise Hamilton with her new book,
Prisoner of Memory
 
Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 PM Pulitzer Prize-Winner Doug Marlette 
 
Saturday, April 21 ALL DAY LONG: THE ALABAMA BOOK FESTIVAL down at Old
Alabama Town. More than 50 great writers from all over the country!
RESERVE THIS DATE.
----------------------------------------------------
Cheryl and Thomas Upchurch
Capitol Book & News Company
1140 E. Fairview Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36106
Voice 334.265.1473
www.capitolbook.com

[mailto:southernfolklorists@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa
Hollingsworth
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 12:42 PM
To: PUBLORE@...; southernfolklorists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [southernfolklorists] 2007 Folklorists in the South -
Registration

Please visit www.SouthArts.org for registration and agenda information
for the 2007 Folklorists in the South Retreat. This year we're
celebrating our 20th anniversary! Feel free to forward this message and
the SAF link to interested folks and other listserves.
 
Also, this year we're introducing on-line registration for FITS to
making the registration process easier!
 
Hope to see you in South Carolina in April!
 
Best,
 
Teresa
 
 
Teresa Hollingsworth
Traditional Arts Manager
Accessibility Coordinator
Southern Arts Federation
1800 Peachtree St., NW
Suite 808
Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone:  404-874-7244 x. 14
FAX: 404-873-2148
teresah@...
 
Click here to visit the NEW www.southarts.org
 

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reverse chronological order within each section. All links are working
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**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html
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**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
http://activeculture.info/index.asp
<http://activeculture.info/index.asp>

**activeculture.info History Events
http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf <http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf>

**activeculture.info Literature Events
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AND NOW THE NEWS...

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Please note that many articles continue beyond the single web page I
have linked here. Web sites related to some articles often appear in the
"Bonus Material" section.


COMING EVENTS*HISTORY**CULTURE**DEATHS*BONUS MATERIAL

================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**O.V. HUNT, Commercial Photographer: Images of Life and Work in the
Early Magic City. Vulcan Park Museum. Through July 20. [second story]
http://tinyurl.com/2sezku
Birmingham News 4 February 2007

**Folk art [by Mose T.] displayed at [Montgomery] Visitor Center
[during February]
http://tinyurl.com/36wxmh
Montgomery Advertiser 4 February 2007

**Folk festival [at Birmingham Museum of Art Feb. 12-Dec. 30]
http://tinyurl.com/2jzl7d
Montgomery Advertiser 4 February 2007

**Montgomery area folk artists in the exhibition [at BMA]
http://tinyurl.com/3yccf5
Montgomery Advertiser 4 February 2007

**'Wallace/the Clayton Years' [play] makes return [Feb. 23-4, March 2-3]
http://tinyurl.com/32lpl8
Montgomery Advertiser 4 February 2007


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Senior MASKERS: Veteran float riders share their Carnival memories
http://tinyurl.com/39a9qn
Mobile Press-Register 5 February 2007

**Alabama's forgotten genius
PBS special remembers state chemist's astounding career, marked by equal
parts persistance, intellect
[link to PBS program: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian/ ]
http://tinyurl.com/2job9f
Birmingham News 5 February 2007

**1934 February 5- Henry (Hank) Aaron is born in Mobile, Alabama.  After
starting his major league baseball career with the Milwaukee Braves in 1954, he
will distinguish himself as a home-run specialist. Aaron will be considered by
some, the best baseball player in history. Over his 23-year Major League
Baseball career, he will compile more batting records than any other player in
baseball history. He will hold the record for runs batted in with 2297, and will
be a Gold Glove Winner in 1958, 1959, and 1960. His             most famous
accomplishment will come on April 8, 1974, when at the age of 40, he will hit a
385-foot home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers, surpassing Babe Ruth's record
of 714 career home runs. He will end his career with 755 home runs. In 1982, he
will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. After his retirement, he will
return to the Atlanta Braves as a vice-president for player development, and
will be promoted to senior vice-president in 1989.

1913 February 4- Rosa Louise McCauley is born in Tuskegee, Alabama. In
1932, she will marry Raymond Parks. She will work at a number of jobs, ranging
from domestic worker to hospital aide. At her husband's urging, she will finish
high school studies in 1933, at a time
when less than 7% of African Americans had a high school diploma.
Despite the Jim Crow laws that made political participation by Black
people difficult, she will succeed in registering to vote on her third try. In
December 1943, she will become active in the Civil
Rights Movement, joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. When the
seamstress and NAACP member refuses to yield her seat to a white man on a
Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955, her actions will
spark a 382-day boycott of the buses in Montgomery, halting business and
services in the city and become the initial act of non-violent
disobedience of the American Civil Rights movement. She will be honored with the
NAACP's Spingarn Medal for her heroism and later work with Detroit youth(1979)
and be called the "Mother of the Civil
Rights Movement." She will join the ancestors on October 24, 2005. The
United States Senate will pass a resolution on October 27, 2005 to honor Mother
Parks by allowing her body to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The
House of Representatives approved the resolution on October 28. Since the
founding of the practice of lying in state in
the Rotunda in 1852, She will be the 31st person, the first woman, the
first American who had not been a U.S. government official, and the
second non-government official (after Frenchman Pierre L'Enfant). On
October 30, 2005 President George W. Bush will issue a Proclamation
ordering that all flags on U.S. public areas both within the country and abroad
be flown at half-staff on the day of her funeral. On February 5, 2006, at Super
Bowl XL, played at Detroit's Ford Field, the late Coretta Scott King and Mother
Parks, who had been a long-time resident of "The Motor City", will be remembered
and honored by a moment of silence.

1947 February 4- Sanford Bishop is born in Mobile, Alabama.  He will
graduate from Morehouse College and Emory University Law School.  He
will specialize in civil rights law and will become a member of the
Georgia Legislature from 1977 to 1993 (House and Senate). In 1993, he
will be elected a member of the United States House of Representatives
from Georgia.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 5: http://tinyurl.com/2tg7yp
Feb 4: http://tinyurl.com/2pgwu7
Mobile Press-Register

**Mosquito-borne diseases shaped history
West Nile, other viruses are new arrivals, but yellow fever blamed for
demise of Blakeley
http://tinyurl.com/36pgbj
Mobile Press-Register 4 February 2007

**Tuskegee's history runs deep
The Alabama university nourished the minds of many great
African-Americans.
http://tinyurl.com/2qq2ow
Kansas City Star 4 February 2007

**[Historic] Quilts needed for exhibit
http://tinyurl.com/2j8nws
Gadsden Times 4 February 2007

**1861 February 4: At Montgomery, Alabama, the Confederate States are
organized.
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**Play ["Jackie, Vi and Lena"] will celebrate Black History
["Vi" is Viola Liuzzo]
http://tinyurl.com/2n73sh
Fergus Falls [MN] Daily Journal 3 February 2007

**Anyone can make nomination for Alabama Military Hall of Honor
http://tinyurl.com/3dowhn
Florence Times-Daily 3 February 2007

**Blazing trails while behind the wheel of an old bus
"[Worcy] Crawford's youngest son, Donald, has written "The Wheels of the
Birmingham Civil Rights Movement," which chronicles his life."
http://tinyurl.com/2ryw4e
Birmingham News 2 February 2007

**Black History Profile: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
http://tinyurl.com/3btef8
The Hilltop [Howard University] 2 February 2007

**Bob McLendon interim museum director [Pioneer Museum of Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/3dqbm5
Troy Messenger 2 February 2007


===========
**CULTURE
===========

**Art, essay contests part of Big Read
Students can win prizes in library's 'Mockingbird' fest
http://tinyurl.com/2l4unx
Huntsville Times 5 February 2007

**Birmingham artist uses dad's music influence at early age to convey
poetic movement of musicians in his paintings, on display at Carnegie
http://tinyurl.com/2n5h6r
Decatur Daily 5 February 2007

**Not just another Other
Before 'Lost' star tackled one of TV's creepiest roles, Michael Emerson
took Shakespeare stage in Alabama [for three years]
http://tinyurl.com/2tswab
Birmingham News 4 February 2007

**Obituaries live on when folks are gone [Ben Windham column]
http://tinyurl.com/3dptkm
Tuscaloosa News 4 February 2007

**Explosive 'Exile' mixes romance, radical extremists
[review by Don Noble of new novel by Richard North Patterson]
http://tinyurl.com/3ampz2
Tuscaloosa News 4 February 2007

**[Local] Urban legends easy to spread on the Internet
[also Gadsden Times http://tinyurl.com/2tjolh ]
http://tinyurl.com/3cjmow
Florence Times Daily 4 February 2007

**Who's behind the MASK?
Decatur woman carries on the Mardi Gras mystique in Mobile
http://tinyurl.com/2kvbgx
Decatur Daily 4 February 2007

**Locals use science in ghoulish hunt for paranormal activity
http://tinyurl.com/3ypnhb
Florence Times-Daily 3 February 2007

**'CONSTELLATION' [filmed in Huntsville] makes connection with faith
leaders
http://tinyurl.com/2tbe2m
Decatur Daily 3 February 2007

**MOVIE REVIEW ["Constellation"] Film failed to deliver, but fun to see
http://tinyurl.com/34kw2j
Decatur Daily 3 February 2007

**Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Welcomes Back Home...
"[Bessemer native] Crystal Zion... Backed by the legendary Birmingham
Heritage Band, the Alabama homegrown songstress received a warm welcome
back home."
http://tinyurl.com/3b5o4y
eJazzNews 2 February 2007

**Great cast, not so great script ["Constellation"]
Film set in Alabama is about black family life, but story is cluttered
http://tinyurl.com/2mwxqu
Birmingham News 2 February 2007

**Review of "Constellation" [filmed in Huntsville]
http://tinyurl.com/you8e3
Hollywood Reporter 2 February 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Physician [Henry M.] Gewin dies at 85
http://tinyurl.com/3ads7j
Mobile Press-Register 3 February 2007

**[Gadsden-Etowah Co.] Tourism board director [Jerry Alford] dies
http://tinyurl.com/2jxh64
Gadsden Times 3 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Birmingham Museum of Art
http://www.artsbma.org/

**Old Apache Chief Geronimo Is Dead
[He was imprisoned in Alabama for several years.]
http://tinyurl.com/yraupj
New York Times 18 February 1908



***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

Listings since July 2002:

Alabama History & Culture in the News
http://www.anes.uab.edu/alahistnews0.htm
<http://www.anes.uab.edu/alahistnews0.htm>

Listings prior to that date are in the Yahoo archives.

alabamahistory archives at Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alabamahistory
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alabamahistory>

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in
reverse chronological order within each section. All links are working
at the time I send this email and post them to the web page listing.

Feel free to forward this email as desired....

**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html
<http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html>

**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
http://activeculture.info/index.asp
<http://activeculture.info/index.asp>

**activeculture.info History Events
http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf <http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf>

**activeculture.info Literature Events
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AND NOW THE NEWS...

Additional articles can often be found at Google, Topix or Yahoo news
sites:

http://news.google.com/ <http://news.google.com/>
http://www.topix.net/ <http://www.topix.net/>
http://news.yahoo.com/ <http://news.yahoo.com/>

Please note that many articles continue beyond the single web page I
have linked here. Web sites related to some articles often appear in the
"Bonus Material" section.


COMING EVENTS*HISTORY**CULTURE**DEATHS*BONUS MATERIAL

================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**Friday, February 9:
[Joe] Faulkner, [Kathryn] Barrett to speak at Black History Month event
"The Etowah Historical Society will observe Black History Month with two
speakers who experienced the civil rights movement firsthand in
Gadsden."
http://tinyurl.com/29wt5r
Gadsden Times 7 February 2007


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**City launches sesquicentennial celebration with proclamation, dessert
Book of Madison history plays big role in anniversary
http://tinyurl.com/2hfxjj
Huntsville Times 7 February 2007

**City [of Madison] plans variety of ways to celebrate 150th anniversary
http://tinyurl.com/2ftvz9
Huntsville Times 7 February 2007

**[Madison] Sesquicentennial logo winner [Michael Bass] calls it an
honor
http://tinyurl.com/26kjaf
Huntsville Times 7 February 2007

**State WWII veterans urged to share their stories
APTV director seeks participants for documentary
http://tinyurl.com/275r3s
Huntsville Times 7 February 2007

**Johnson family funeral business gauges progress over 40 years
http://tinyurl.com/ypzny4
Birmingham News 7 February 2007

**Artist [Jerry Marks] puts Oxford's history on canvas
http://tinyurl.com/2jnkau
Montgomery Advertiser 7 February 2007

**1967 fire leaves legacy
http://tinyurl.com/38unmz
Montgomery Advertiser 7 February 2007

**2007 February 7: Author and UA graduate Gay Talese turns 75.

**Historic group vies for budget spot
Chattahoochee Commission seeking funds from Alabama, Georgia
http://tinyurl.com/39nrxa
Columbus [GA] Ledger-Enquirer 6 February 2007

**Reclaiming a Black Research Scientist's Forgotten Legacy [Percy
Julian]
http://tinyurl.com/3dl5zc
New York Times 6 February 2007

**Retired railroad manager is model volunteer for Foley [railroad]
museum
http://tinyurl.com/338thc
Mobile Press-Register 6 February 2007

**Mobile Genealogical Society to celebrate 45th anniversary
http://tinyurl.com/33cht8
Mobile Press-Register 6 February 2007

**South Baldwin Regional Medical Center Auxiliary celebrates 50th
anniversary
Former hospital CEO Sandy McGill was guest speaker at special luncheon
http://tinyurl.com/32uveo
Mobile Press-Register 6 February 2007

**[Mobile Carnival] Museum traces history of Mardi Gras
http://tinyurl.com/2pfcb7
Mobile Press-Register 6 February 2007

**Early days of radio on display [including in Alabama]
[Alabama Historical Radio Society display at Alabama Power hq]
http://tinyurl.com/3cj5s5
Birmingham News 6 February 2007

**TV special covers life of Alabama's 'forgotten genius' [Percy Julien]
http://tinyurl.com/26tzyg
Montgomery Advertiser 6 February 2007

**Reviews of "Nova" special on chemist, Ala. native Percy Julien
http://tinyurl.com/yuw4od
Google News 6 February 2007

**1950 February 6- Natalie Cole is born [in Los Angeles] to Nat "King"
and Maria Cole. She will follow in her famous father's footsteps and
become a recording star. She will become a Grammy Award-winning singer,
and
Best New Artist in 1975.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 7: http://tinyurl.com/2y6smd
Feb 6: http://tinyurl.com/2mtzwy
Mobile Press-Register

**Tuskegee Airmen beam forth in Black History Month
http://tinyurl.com/ytwagg
Middletown [NY] Times Herald-Record 5 February 2007

**b. 02-05-1934 - Hank Aaron - Mobile, AL
baseball legend: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Tops In Sports"
[radio shows]


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**CULTURE
===========

**Alabaster seeks to expand on land owned by author [James Redfield]
http://tinyurl.com/28jz7z
Birmingham News 7 February 2007

**Moody, Clay-Chalkville [literary] magazines get high marks
http://tinyurl.com/2edy46
Birmingham News 7 February 2007

**As founder departs, [Sidewalk Moving Picture] film fest takes new
direction
http://tinyurl.com/22mdwy
Birmingham News 7 February 2007

**Eating dirt is a Southern culinary tradition
http://tinyurl.com/2gcgvr
Decatur Daily 7 February 2007

**Sultans of sound
Commercial studios not hard to find in Shoals
http://tinyurl.com/34f7kn
Florence Times-Daily 7 February 2007

**'Constellation' viewing shines despite absence of major star
[Billy Dee Williams; movie was filmed in Huntsville in 2004]
http://tinyurl.com/2seopb
Montgomery Advertiser 7 February 2007


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**DEATHS
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**Former Lawrence Commissioner Barkley Lentz dies
http://tinyurl.com/ynrwqr
Decatur Daily 7 February 2007

**Retired civil appeals court judge [William E. Robertson] dies at 67
[obituary in Tuscaloosa News: http://tinyurl.com/yrk7zv ]
http://tinyurl.com/2er7sq
Montgomery Advertiser 6 February 2007

**Faulkner trustee [Vanderbilt Pierpoint] Black dies at 88
http://tinyurl.com/2z8ayy
Montgomery Advertiser 6 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Life and Science of Percy Julien
http://www.chemheritage.org/scialive/julian/index.html
Chemical Heritage Society

**Recent/Forthcoming Alabama-related Books

Cook, Ruth Beaumont. Guests Behind the Barbed Wire: German POWs in the
Small-Town [Aliceville] South. Crane Hill, April 2007

Heaphy, Leslie A., ed. Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas
City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues. McFarland,
2007

Howard, Ravi. Like Trees, Walking. Amistad, March 2007 [novel based on
1981 Mobile lynching]

Long, Robert Emmet. Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible. Continuum, May 2007

Montgomery, Leslie. The Faith of Condolezza Rice. Crossway, March 2007

Schaap, Jeremy. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's
Olympics. Houghton Mifflin, 2007



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Railroad  Museum in Mobile Alabama

New book on Birmingham (AL) railroads From: Marvin Clemons

New book on Birmingham (AL) railroads
Posted by: "Marvin Clemons" mclemons@...   railcollector
Thu Feb 8, 2007 7:09 am (PST)

Red Mountain Press has announced the forthcoming publication of a new
title on Birmingham (AL) railroads. "Birmingham Rails: The Last Golden
Era", co-authored by Marvin Clemons and Lyle Key, will be a collection
of personal and contributed narrative with extensive photography of
Birmingham railroads from World War II to the arrival of Amtrak.

"Birmingham Rails" is dedicated to Frank Ardrey, who has written a
personal foreword to the book, and will feature a number of Frank's
classic black & white photos from the David Salter collection. Other
contributing photographers include David Salter, Hugh Comer, Dick
Sharpless, Parker Lamb, Dennis Conniff, David Ingles and Don Phillips.
Also included are many previously unpublished images by local
photographers from the Birmingham area.

The book will feature chapters on every Class I, industrial, and
shortline railroad operating in the Birmingham railroad district from
the 1940's through 1960's. An extensive chapter on industrials will be
contributed by Tom Lawson, a respected authority on Birmingham's
colorful industrials and Alabama logging railroads.

"Birmingham Rails" can be previewed on RMP's website at
www.birminghamrails.com <http://www.birminghamrails.com/> . The
limited edition will ship in September 2007 and can be ordered through
the website at a pre-publication discount.

Marvin Clemons

Red Mountain Press

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**[Foley] Railroad Museum to open Saturday
Extensive model train display on exhibit took more than year to
construct
http://tinyurl.com/34a986
Mobile Press-Register 9 February 2007


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Daphne [Heritage] museum features Mardi Gras exhibit
Array of festive throws, trinkets, costumes and other items are on show
http://tinyurl.com/2t8xwy
Mobile Press-Register 9 February 2007

**"UAB has joined the University of Alabama and the Alabama Department
of Archives and History as a co-publisher of Alabama Heritage magazine."
[AH's web site is http://www.alabamaheritage.com/ ]
"Education Briefs" Birmingham News 9 February 2007

**Branchville to vote on dissolving town
http://tinyurl.com/39tfe2
Birmingham News 9 February 2007

**Eyes on the Past [Freedom Riders in Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/2o5bn7
Chronicle of Higher Education 9 February 2007

**1971 February 9- Satchel Paige becomes the first African American
elected to professional baseball's Hall of Fame for his career in the
Negro Leagues.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Strip It: Alabama Book Store's Fight
[book store has been on Tuscaloosa's "Strip" since 1942]
http://tinyurl.com/344wbz
Dateline Alabama 8 February 2007

**Oral recordings from black families to be archived
[Cities to be visited include Montgomery and Selma]
http://tinyurl.com/3ahr69
Montgomery Advertiser 8 February 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 9: http://tinyurl.com/342whe
Feb 8: http://tinyurl.com/2nest8
Mobile Press-Register


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**CULTURE
===========

**Retired art teacher [in Decatur, Linda Lee] shares passion
http://tinyurl.com/2sf7yj
Montgomery Advertiser 9 February 2007

**Learn how Auburn University came upon the art bargain of the century
"At the close of World War II, as Europe pondered how best to rebuild
it's cities and culture, the U.S. State Department pondered how best to
communicate the American world view, eventually settling on an art
exhibition. It pulled together works that showcased the ascendancy of
modern American art and sent it overseas. And somewhere along the way an
Alabama Congressional delegation got mixed up in a bizarre confluence of
events that culminated in what's become known as the "art bargain of the
century". Reporter Haden Holmes Brown has details on how that bargain
wound up at Auburn University..."
http://wbhm.org/Tapestry/index.html
"Tapestry" WBHM-FM [Birmingham] 8 February 2007

**N. Alabama siblings advance in nationwide '[Nashville] Star' search
http://tinyurl.com/yq2f5n
Huntsville Times 8 February 2007

**Auction-goers snap up lifetime of Selma artist's works [Frances
Lanier]
http://tinyurl.com/2j7dwv
Montgomery Advertiser 8 February 2007

**By the Book
Retired journalist, student write fiction
[Frank Sikora and Michelle Batcheler]
http://tinyurl.com/q6p43
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 6 February 2007


===========
**DEATHS
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**Noted former police officer Jesse Robertson dies
Lawman had been shot, received burns in line of duty during his career
http://tinyurl.com/3763ky
Mobile Press-Register 9 February 2007

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**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Recent/Forthcoming Books Related to Alabama

Diouf, Sylvane A. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slaveship Clotilda
and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. Oxford University
Press, 2007

Ingram, Ron and Rubin Grant. Tales from Alabama Prep Football. Sports
Publishing, 2006

Washington, Harriet. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical
Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.
Doubleday, 2006 [includes Tuskegee Syphilis Study]


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**Title: New Perspectives on the Black South Symposium
    Location: North Carolina
    Date: 2007-02-23
    Description: A symposium on 'New Perspective on the Black South'
       will be held Feb 23-24th, 2007 at the University of North
       Carolina, Chapel Hill, sponsored by the Center for the Study of
       the American South. Speakers will include: Kevin Kruse,
       Princeton; Shirley Thompson, Univ. of Texas; Leigh Raiford,
       Berkeley;  ...
    Contact: alwood@...
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    Announcement ID: 155275
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The Black Belt African American Genealogical and Historical Society,
Inc. (BBAAGHS) is conducting the first ever Black Belt African
American Genealogy Conference & Family History Fair in historic
Selma, AL on Feb 16-18, 2007. The conference includes guest speakers, exhibits,
vendors, films and other events at two locations, the Larry D. Striplin
Performing Arts Centre, 1000 Selma Ave, and the Divine Life Community
Development Corp.at 905 Water Ave.

Workshops include Beginning Genealogy and Researching Slave Records
with Mary Jones Fitts and Family Reunion Planning with Melvin J.
Collier. Gwen M. Holland will present a case history of the McArthurs of Wilcox
County and Lovie Warren will examine the wealth of information found in the
school enumeration census records from
Nanafalia in Marengo County and selected schools in Wilcox County.

In honor of Black History Month and just in time for the opening of
the film Amazing Grace, Regis Nicoll will speak on The Legacy of
William Wilberforce. Regis is a Centurion of the Wilberforce Forum, a Christian
think tank of Prison Fellowship Ministries promoting
justice, freedom of religion, and the sanctity of life. He is a
columnist for Chuck Colson's BreakPoint and a Contributing Editor for Salvo
Magazine. His writings on faith and culture regularly appear on Crosswalk and
the Crux Project among other places.

The conference fee is $20.00 for a full day of workshops on Saturday
February 17 from 8 AM - 5 PM and $20.00 for the banquet on February
17 from 7-10 PM.

While everyone is invited to attend, this should be of particular
interest to those living in, or with ancestry in, the twelve counties of
Alabama's Black Belt Region - Bullock, Choctaw, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes,
Macon, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Sumter and Wilcox.

To register and for more information, please consult BBAAGHS'
website: www.bbaaghs.org or call B.J. Smothers 334-877-4846.

Book includes coverage of Alabama; author is AU professor...
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Published by H-Southern-Industry@... (February 2007)

Angela Lakwete. _Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in
Antebellum America_. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiii + 232 pp.
Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. $25.00 (paperback), ISBN
978-0-8018-8272-2.

Reviewed for H-Southern-Industry by Shepherd W. McKinley, Department of
History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Whitney and "The First Cotton Gin"

To grace the cover of her book's paperback edition, Angela Lakwete chose
William L. Sheppard's illustration, "The First Cotton Gin," first
published in _Harper's Weekly_ in 1869. In it, Sheppard drew planters
evaluating ginned cotton and slaves operating a roller gin, a forerunner
to Whitney's famous invention. The image, Lakwete argues, gets to the
heart of the matter: the question of Eli Whitney's paternity of that
most troublesome of all American inventions, the cotton gin, as well as
the role southerners of both races played in its invention. Sheppard
sought to dilute what historians since the early nineteenth century had
promulgated, the myth--still alive and well in most textbooks--that no
other gin existed before Whitney's eureka moment in 1794. While on a
visit to Georgia, the myth continues, Whitney (full of Yankee ingenuity
but new to the cotton industry) came to the rescue of black and white
southerners (a head-scratching bunch of dimwits who could only think to
finger gin the cotton) by solving the problem of quickly extricating
seeds from cotton without (completely) destroying the fiber. By
identifying the northern mythmakers and the southern debunkers, as well
as providing a painstaking explanation of the evolution of the ancient
invention, Lakwete properly exposes cotton gins (not just Whitney's) as
cultural artifacts with ample historical baggage. In doing so, she
begins a long overdue revision of what textbooks and history teachers
have mistakenly preached regarding Whitney, cotton gins, and the lack of
southern ingenuity. Of course, change takes time. In the decade since
Lakwete's scholarship forced this professor to revise his classroom
comments about gins, rare is the student who does not revert
reflexively, on exams and papers, to the Whitney myth.

A graduate of the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization at
the University of Delaware and now an associate professor at Auburn
University, Lakwete organizes _Inventing the Cotton Gin_ chronologically
through the first five chapters, and thematically in the last three.
Exploding the Whitney myth in the book's opening sentence, she
introduces readers to cotton varieties and early cotton gins in the
first chapter. So much for a surprise ending. Global in scope and
research, this chapter also features the emergence of single roller gin
technology during the first century C.E. and its dispersion throughout
Asia, Africa, and North America. Double roller gins appeared about a
dozen centuries later in India and China, but did not dislodge the
single roller. Lakwete completes this background chapter by illustrating
Great Britain's rise in the world textile trade.

In chapter 2, Lakwete narrows the focus to the Americas and advances the
timeframe to the eve of Whitney's invention. Planters in the Caribbean
dominated cotton production early in the eighteenth century, but
mainland producers reentered the trade in the 1770s when the British
mechanized cotton spinning. Lakwete describes American inventions such
as the fully foot-powered gin, the barrel gin, and Joseph Eve's
self-feeding gin as conservative modernizations of the roller gin,
"faithful to the pinch principle" and successful in preserving the
quality of the cotton fiber (p. 46). Contrary to popular belief, ginning
was not a bottleneck for the American industry before Whitney. Lakwete
also provides interesting background on the policy debates of 1787
between Tench Coxe, the "father of the American cotton industry," and
Thomas Jefferson over the role of government in economic development (p.
36).

Reinforcing her thesis that Whitney was just one of several important
inventors of the gin, Lakwete presents his story in detail in chapter 3.
Covering the years 1790-1810, she argues that Whitney's unique
contribution was to patent a "new ginning principle" and a "new kind of
gin," the wire-toothed gin (p. 47). The new machine pulled the short
staple fiber from the seed more quickly than the roller gin's pinching
action, enhancing quantity over quality and forcing textile and cotton
producers to reevaluate their priorities.   Modifications to the
wire-toothed gin by other inventors led to the saw gin and a series of
lawsuits. Lakwete demonstrates that Phineas Miller, Whitney's partner,
and William Johnson, a judge in one of the many patent lawsuits, helped
invent the Whitney myth by "collapsing" two centuries of successful
roller ginning into Whitney's invention, and thereby created THE moment
of southern economic discontinuity (p. 71). Lakwete begs to differ. The
saw gin represented a different form of gin from what had come before,
but the change was not, as has been widely proclaimed, similar to the
jump from horse and buggy to automobile.

Planters and gin makers did not abandon the roller gin immediately. In
chapter 4, Lakwete depicts the thirty-year transition from the roller to
saw gin as more evolutionary that revolutionary. While the roller gin
represented "a colonial past" and the saw gin the modernity championed
by Tench Coxe, Americans were relatively slow--slower than textbooks
portray--to fully embrace the saw gin technology (p. 72). The roller gin
remained a strong competitor until the late 1820s, but saw gin makers
hastened its demise by aggressively advertising and developing a strong
manufacturing infrastructure. By not keeping up, roller gin makers found
their products pushed out of the rapidly expanding short-staple market
and restricted to the limited market for long-staple cotton. Textile
manufacturers allowed themselves to be seduced by the saw gin's edge in
quantity, and they adapted to the shorter, lower quality fiber. Lakwete
spends most of the chapter discussing the development of new communities
of cotton gin makers in Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and
Alabama. The transition to saw gins ended with the creation of large saw
gin manufacturing companies, two in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and one
in Triana, Alabama. By demonstrating the vitality of innovation in the
South, as well as the North, Lakwete explores a related set of
reoccurring themes in the next few chapters: the power and breadth of
southern industrialization and the collaboration of northern and
southern manufacturers and consumers.

Not surprisingly, sectionalism takes center stage in chapter 5, which
covers the final decades of the antebellum era to the end of the Civil
War. Lakwete describes this period within the saw gin industry as "a
case study of southern industrialization" due to the developing
manufacturing industry that incorporated the region's agriculture (p.
97). Although gin makers in Massachusetts became more prominent, and
northerners directed the South's biggest factories, southern
manufacturers were important in the industry, and southerners were not
dependent on the North for this most vital machine. Southern mechanics
and manufacturers congregated in county seats, forming "zones of
industrialization" where innovation thrived in gin manufacture, and
later, in firearms production for the Confederacy (p. 97). Southern gin
makers, such as Daniel Pratt, Samuel Griswold, and T.G. Atwood, employed
free blacks and slaves who contributed to the "innovative industry that
blurred regional and racial distinctions as it reinforced them" (p. 98).
Lakwete discusses the differences between northern and southern firms,
and wrestles with the question of what role enslaved African Americans
played in the industry.

Fluctuations in cotton prices during much of the antebellum period
exacerbated the tensions between quality and quantity in the saw gin
industry, and pressured gin makers to innovate. Lakwete explains in
chapter 6 that low prices made planters and British textile
manufacturers demand longer and cleaner fiber with no decrease in
production. Caught in the middle, gin makers sought to perfect their
machines with incremental, conservative changes, usually in the form of
"fancy attachments" that were often sectionally distinct (p. 122). Price
shocks, such as the panic of 1837, spurred inventors to improve gin
speed as well as fiber length and cleanliness. By the 1850s, however,
quantity had triumphed over quality and became synonymous, in the minds
of planters, with perfection.

To paraphrase Monty Python, the roller gin was not dead yet. Roller gin
makers tried to innovate and modernize in the face of the saw gin's
continuing dominance during the 1820-1870 period. A group of
predominantly northern gin manufacturers attempted to increase roller
gin output for the long-staple cotton market, but failed to maintain
quality standards. Other gin makers, located in the South but with
"northern roots," created the McCarthy and cylinder gins in an
unsuccessful attempt to compete with saw gins in the short-staple market
(p. 148). Lakwete's analysis in chapter 7 sheds light upon the cultures
of short- and long-cotton planters. Many long-staple planters continued
to use foot and Eve gins until adopting the McCarthy gin in the 1860s.

The final chapter, "Machine and Myth," returns to intriguing themes
introduced in the preface and mentioned in other chapters. Lakwete
argues that the cotton gin was "a site of invention and innovation and a
symbol of regional prosperity," but as the Whitney myth proliferated,
the gin "degenerated into a signifier of southern failure" (p. 177).
"The narrative begins," she continues, "with inept planters and sleepy
finger-ginning slaves and ends with battlefield dead. It celebrates
Yankee ingenuity in invention and victory and insinuates southern
incompetence in passivity and defeat" (pp. 191-192). Accounts of the
inventor's life, including a particularly influential one by Denison
Olmstead in 1832, fortified evolving stereotypes of "ingenious"
northerners and "incompetent" southerners (p. 180). Historians,
beginning with James Ford Rhodes in 1893, gave Whitney's evil gin agency
and blamed it for the South's cotton economy, the reinvigoration of
slavery after 1800, and the sectional tensions that led to the Civil
War. New South boosters struck back, claiming that the saw gin
represented the dead Old South, and the McCarthy gin represented the
modern New South, but the failure story, Lakwete documents, has survived
to the twenty-first century.

By following the advice of her mentor, George Basalla, to use "things in
history," Lakwete successfully overturns the story of southern failure
by recovering the history of roller gins and southern gins shops (p.
xi). Planters, machinists, and African Americans (free and enslaved)
were skilled innovators and talented marketers, resulting in
technological advances and financial success. Whitney's invention was an
important advance in cotton gin history, but many southerners before and
after Whitney played vital roles in the development of the machine. In a
direct writing style, Lakwete presents in-depth and wide-ranging
research with helpful summaries at the beginning and end of each
chapter. She painstakingly explains complicated technological issues,
including the nuts and bolts of each machine, while providing the reader
with context. This is an important book, and now in paperback form, a
good candidate for graduate level courses. As is evident in this
reviewer's attempt to summarize her chapters, Lakwete had her work cut
out for her in trying to explain this complex industry and its even more
complex machines.

While _Inventing the Cotton Gin_ serves as an exciting revision and
raises even more exciting questions, Lakwete's detailed exploration of
cotton ginning makes for slow reading for those not technologically
inclined. It is understandable that Lakwete should demonstrate the
differences between Whitney's machine and its predecessors and
successors, and it is helpful to reveal the evolutions in production,
marketing, and the needs of planters. But this reviewer would have
preferred less detail and more summary, guidance, and context. Lakwete
documents many cases of, and raises tantalizing questions about,
southern industrialization, but readers of H-Southern-Industry will find
themselves wanting more. Specifically, she declares in the preface that
the "innovative southern gin industry belies constructions of failure
read back from 1865. Instead, it forces a reconciliation of an
industrializing, modernizing, and slave labor-based South" (p. ix).
While Lakwete documents such innovation and returns to this theme
occasionally, readers may wish for a fuller exploration of context--the
cotton gin as "the emblem of the cotton South," the historiography of
industrialization of the antebellum South, and an understanding of the
sense of industrial inferiority among southerners (p. 176). This reader
would have also enjoyed more discussion about the relationships of the
cotton gin to race in the South and Coxe's new nationalism, and of zones
and communities of gin makers to southern industrialization.

Lakwete's _Inventing the Cotton Gin_ is an important addition to the
growing list of works on southern industrialization. Her argument that
continuity, not the myth of discontinuity, marked the history of cotton
gins, is well documented and has important implications for
understanding the antebellum and postbellum periods. Whitney's gin was
not a major turning point in American history, or even southern history,
but part of a long tradition of innovation and collaboration; innovation
by northern and southern inventors and machinists, and collaboration
between inventors and planters, blacks and whites, slaves and masters.
As with other good history books, it challenges what we think we knew,
and sends us searching for more clues.



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**COMING EVENTS
================

**'Gee's Bend' coming to Fairhope [play by Elyzabeth G. Wilder; Feb.
21-22]
http://tinyurl.com/yquaen
Mobile Press-Register 11 February 2007

**"Things Of Dry Hours", Manchester [England]
"Alabama in the 1930s. Tice Hogan, an unemployed black man who lives
with his widowed daughter, Cali, treasures his Bible and The Communist
Manifesto. He is a member of the fledgling Communist party which, in the
Depression years, attracted large numbers of dispossessed black people.
Written by Naomi Wallace, Things Of Dry Hours takes its title from
Gwendolyn Brooks' poem and its epitaph from James Baldwin's assertion:
"as long as you think you're white, there is no hope for you." Rising
young director Raz Shaw directs a tale of race, politics, desire and the
hope that tomorrow can be better than today. Royal Exchange Studio, Wed
7 to Feb 24"
http://tinyurl.com/yqrvd6
Guardian [UK] 3 February 2007

**50 authors sign on for second Alabama Book Festival [April 21]
http://tinyurl.com/yu6gqp
Montgomery Advertiser 11 February 2007


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Madison going strong at 150
City starts year of celebration of its birthday tonight
http://tinyurl.com/yv5oay
Huntsville Times 12 February 2007

**Constellation Tour
Visit to Huntsville offers otherwordly time
http://tinyurl.com/2bpy7q
Decatur Daily 12 February 2007

**Restoring black history
Stillman alumni association plans fundraiser to renovate previous home
of historically black college
http://tinyurl.com/2dj75q
Tuscaloosa News 12 February 2007

**It takes a village [Village School]
Sheffield group seeks grant to restore historic landmark
http://tinyurl.com/3ywp56
Florence Times-Daily 12 February 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 12: http://tinyurl.com/2yrz7h
Feb 11: http://tinyurl.com/ywemel
Feb 10: http://tinyurl.com/ywx3x4
Mobile Press-Register

**Author delves into the lives of the people of the Clotilda
[Sylviane Diouf, " "Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda
and the Last Africans Brought to America."]
http://tinyurl.com/27bu7f
Mobile Press-Register 11 February 2007

**Former [political] opponents recall memories of childhood
http://tinyurl.com/yuf5lw
Montgomery Advertiser 11 February 2007

**Ex-slave was Decatur's first black councilman [Burrel Lemons]
http://tinyurl.com/2athug
Decatur Daily 11 February 2007

**Author digs into mining's racial past
[review of "'Everybody Was Black Down There': Race and Industrial Change
in the Alabama Coalfields" by Robert H. Woodrum]
http://tinyurl.com/2vay4o
Tuscaloosa News 11 February 2007

**1966 February 11- Willie Mays signs with the San Francisco Giants for
$ 130,000 a year.  At the time, this is one of the highest salaries in
professional baseball.

1998 February 10- Dr. David Satcher [Anniston native] is confirmed by
the U.S. Senate to become Surgeon General.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**ROSA L. PARKS MUSEUM
Children's wing turns back clock
http://tinyurl.com/2fy2tn
Montgomery Advertiser 10 February 2007

**Radio program honors Denton
"MOULTON -- WALW Radio is hosting a program today featuring Sen. Bobby
Denton to mark the 50th anniversary of Denton's recording of "A Fallen
Star."
http://tinyurl.com/yrddnr
Florence Times-Daily 10 February 2007

**Professor [Alan Brown] to discuss woman who collected black folklore
[Ruby Pickens Tartt; talk held Feb. 11 in Scottsboro]
http://tinyurl.com/27md8k
Huntsville Times 10 February 2007

**Radio society tunes into Alabama broadcast history
http://tinyurl.com/yughqe
Columbus [GA] Ledger-Enquirer 10 February 2007

**Monroe woman follows family ties to Alabama
http://tinyurl.com/2546l2
Monroe [MI] News 10 February 2007

**New film 'Breach' focuses on Auburn alum [Eric O'Neill]
http://tinyurl.com/yt6mzs
Montgomery Advertiser 10 February 2007

**Historical society to discuss William Moore murder [in Alabama in
1963]
http://tinyurl.com/35alxy
Binghamton [NY] Press & Sun-Bulletin 9 February 2007

**Iowa's black history makers: [George Washington] Carver applied genius
to ag study
http://tinyurl.com/2wtubw
Des Moines [IA] Register 9 February 2007


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**CULTURE
===========

**Memorable [Oliver] Roosevelt legacy spans visual and performing arts
http://tinyurl.com/2getrg
Birmingham News 11 February 2007

**Art from the soul
Renowned Alabama artists' work to star in yearlong exhibit here
http://tinyurl.com/yvhvny
Birmingham News 11 February 2007

**BOOK NOTES
[novelist William] Cobb wins Harper Lee Award
http://tinyurl.com/yrzozg
Birmingham News 11 February 2007

**Former Brewer [H.S.] student praised for Supreme [Court] book
""Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the
United States Supreme Court" (Penguin, 368 pages, $27.95) offers what
some reviewers are calling an unprecedented look at the nation's top
court by Jan Crawford Greenburg. Greenburg, who was editor of The
Crimson White at the University of Alabama, is legal affairs reporter
for the Chicago Tribune and Supreme Court correspondent for PBS'
"Newshour."
http://tinyurl.com/28m7gh
Huntsville Times 11 February 2007

**Disco inferno
Firehouse being converted into recording studio [in Sheffield]
http://tinyurl.com/2pzcey
Florence Times-Daily 11 February 2007

**City maps out plans to capitalize on movie ["Constellation"]
http://tinyurl.com/yorxkx
Huntsville Times 10 February 2007

**Offbeat Bard [at Sloss Furnaces] to employ motorcycles, street fights
http://tinyurl.com/ywwf6z
Birmingham News 10 February 2007

**Book to benefit Athens university
"Curtis Coleman, former religion professor and dean at Athens State
University, recently published "Stop, Look and Listen," a collection of
inspirational essays."
http://tinyurl.com/2c2oq6
Decatur Daily 10 February 2007

**Quilts weave beauty through diverse threads of history
[exhibit "Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond"]
http://tinyurl.com/2rg6nu
Oskosh [WI] West Index 8 February 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Civil rights lawyer, veteran lawmaker Charles Langford dies
http://tinyurl.com/27a7om
Montgomery Advertiser 12 February 2007

**Barnstorming softball star [Eddie] Feigner dies at 81 [in Huntsville]
http://tinyurl.com/27trmh
West Central [MN] Tribune 12 February 2007

**Former Chilton County sheriff [Paul Strength] dies at age 66|
http://tinyurl.com/26n5pb
Montgomery Advertiser 10 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
16th U.S. Surgeon General
http://tinyurl.com/2qpgcn


***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

________________________________________
From: Palmer, Mark [mailto:Mark.Palmer@...]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:44 AM
To: Amos J Wright
Subject: More names added to Civil War Soldiers database

Alabama Civil War Service Cards File
Currently all entries under the letters A - R are available.
This database is being created from an 8 x 5 card file maintained by the
Alabama Department of Archives and History from the early 1900s until
1982. As staff came across information related to Alabama individuals
during the American Civil War a card was created. Information on
individuals exempted from military service or who served in the militia
or home guard is included. If new information was discovered from
another source, another card was created. Multiple cards for an
individual often exist. Sources include muster rolls, governors'
correspondence, veterans' censuses, manuscript collections, newspapers
and pension records. Names, places and events are often inconsistently
spelled. This card file is in no way inclusive. Every card has empty
fields. Because much of the documentation relating to the Army of
Tennessee was lost, soldiers that served in that army tend to be poorly
documented. The cards are arranged alphabetically by last name; however,
they are closed and microfilm is available.
 
Alabama Civil War Service Database
The advantages of the database over the current card file are that it
can be used through the internet at home and that it can be searched in
a variety of ways. Because the card file is so large and the input of
this material relies largely on volunteer help, the process of data
entry is extremely time consuming. This database will become available
in increments of a letter at a time as each letter is completed.
Currently all entries under the letters A - R are available (Over
168,000 individual cards). When an entire letter is completed it will be
added to the database. It is estimated that there are a total of 250,000
cards in the file. Names starting with any other letters can be searched
on microfilm at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in
Montgomery, or can be ordered using the Research Request form. Data
entry is based on the Civil War Service Card File. Because of time
constraints no attempt is made to validate the information on the cards,
including spelling of names. All the information on each card has been
entered into the database.
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/civilwar/index.cfm
 
Mark A. Palmer
ADAH Web Project
Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
624 Washington Avenue
Montgomery AL 36130
334-353-4636 ext 264
mark.palmer@...
 

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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**African-American [genealogy] fair to be in Selma [Feb. 17]
http://tinyurl.com/3d98cr
Montgomery Advertiser 13 February 2007

**Demopolis Stories of [Lillian] Hellman and [William] Wyler
[Hellman's famed play "The Little Foxes" features her thinly-disguised
Demopolis relatives; Tallulah Bankhead starred in the play on Broadway]
http://www.hellmanwyler.com/demopolis_stories.htm
[Part of the Hellman/Wyler Festival coming to Birmingham and Demopolis
March 2-11, 2007; see http://www.hellmanwyler.com/index.html ]


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Preservation designation may help city with grants
http://tinyurl.com/264emo
Huntsville Times 14 February 2007

**Alabama minister's [H.K. Matthews] new book recounts turbulent era
[Civil rights era in northwest Florida]
http://tinyurl.com/26s5xv
Mobile Press-Register 14 February 2007

**Alabaster's Buck Creek Mill to be partly demolished
[Mill operated almost 80 years before closing in 1979.]
http://tinyurl.com/2h4bgm
Birmingham News 14 February 2007

**Civil rights torchbearers meet
"The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Martin Luther King III stood together
at the front steps of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Tuesday
afternoon to recall the importance of Birmingham's role in the civil
rights movement."
http://tinyurl.com/2h6ko3
Birmingham News 14 February 2007

**Mercedes plant celebrates 10 years
http://tinyurl.com/2xgazq
Tuscaloosa News 14 February 2007

**Rotary [Club of Tuscaloosa] marks 90th anniversary
http://tinyurl.com/29tb5g
Tuscaloosa News 14 February 2007

**Plaque honors Edgewood [Academy, Elmore] student killed in crash
http://tinyurl.com/2dtueg
Montgomery Advertiser 14 February 2007

**b. 02-14-1913 - Mel Allen - Birmingham, AL - d. 6-16-1996
sportscaster, announcer: "White Owl Sports Smoker"; "Truth or
Consequences" [radio shows]

**1965 February 14: Dr. Martin Luther King leads march from Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama.
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**Abandoned schools leave chasms in communities
http://tinyurl.com/3bajr2
Birmingham News 13 February 2007

**[Athens] Historic district opposes group home
http://tinyurl.com/27vbyk
Decatur Daily 13 February 2007

**Legendary soldier: 'Hate war, love the warrior'
"The words of Lt. Gen. Harold "Hal" G. Moore on a Vietnam battlefield in
1965 were some what for gotten by the American public as the war waged
on and became increasingly unpopular. But as the two-war veteran and
Auburn resident celebrates his 85th birthday today, his sentiment of
"hate war, love the warrior," still rings true. It's an idea that was
revived in his book, "We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young," which was
later made into the film, "We Were Soldiers." Actor Mel Gibson portrayed
Moore, then commander of 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, in the
2002 film."
http://tinyurl.com/2ruqkv
Montgomery Advertiser 13 February 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 14: http://tinyurl.com/2dn9be
Feb 13: http://tinyurl.com/2s9okl
Mobile Press-Register


===========
**CULTURE
===========

**Writer Naomi Wallace and director Raz Shaw on Things Of Dry Hours
[play currently running in London set in 1930s Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/ypeehy
Socialist Worker Online 17 February 2007

**Things Of Dry Hours: A radical past revealed
[play currently running in London set in 1930s Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/27xtyy
Socialist Worker Online 17 February 2007

**A $100,000 Poetry Prize
"One of the richest prizes in poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award,
has gone to Rodney Jones, a professor of English at Southern Illinois
University. Mr. Jones, the author of a collection titled "Salvation
Blues" (Houghton Mifflin), will receive $100,000 from Claremont Graduate
University, which selects the winner."
[A biographical note on Jones, author of 8 poetry collections and an
Alabama native, is at http://tinyurl.com/yrew4q ]
New York Times ["Arts, Briefly" column] 14 February 2007

**Reality denied for local police
http://tinyurl.com/2flzmq
Birmingham News 14 February 2007

**Birmingham mayor opposes police reality TV show
http://tinyurl.com/2zlou9
Montgomery Advertiser 13 February 2007

**Reality show ["The First 48" on A&E] to follow city detectives
http://tinyurl.com/3x8sr6
Birmingham News 13 February 2007

**Review of Watt Key's first novel, "Alabama Moon"
http://tinyurl.com/25obeg
New York Times Book Review 11 February 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Eddie Feigner, Hard-Throwing, Barnstorming Showman of Softball, Dies
at 81
[in Huntsville]
http://tinyurl.com/35n58s
New York Times 13 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Archives in Alabama
http://www.bplonline.org/Archives/alabamaarchives.asp

**Alabama Blogs [via Placeblogger]
http://www.placeblogger.com/location/directory/us/AL

**Ambrose Bierce Project
http://www.ambrosebierce.org/main.html

Robert C. Evans' annotated, critical edition of Bierce's story "An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" [Evans is at AUM. Bierce spent time in
Alabama during and just after the Civil War; story is set in Alabama.]
http://www.ambrosebierce.org/evans.html


**Octavus Roy Cohen: Short Stories
[Cohen lived in Birmingham for part of his long career; these stories
below, just a few of the hundreds--in addition to novels--that he wrote
can be found at the Online Pulps site at
http://pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/index.html ]

   The Wild Man
[5 pages, 97K] All-Story
August 28, 1915
   Cohen was a very prolific writer who wrote in diverse genres. He made
the jump from the pulps to the slicks, but he never turned his back on
the pulps. He continuted to contribute the occassional story to them
throughout his career. This is a baseball story from long before the
days of super stars, agents and multi-million dollar contracts.
[2002-09-21]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
   Forbidden Fruit
[4 pages, 94K] Breezy Stories
Jnuary, 1919
   Octavus Roy Cohen is largely forgotten today, but he was well known
for his detective stories, particularly the stories about Dorian
Slappey. Cohen was a fairly prolific contributor to some of the early
romance pulps as well. This is one of those stories. [2002-09-21]

------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
   The Trump Card
[8 pages, 161K] All-Story Weekly
July 19, 1919
   A baseball manager and his star player can't seem to get along in
baseball matters, and then they both begin competing for the same woman.
[2006-12-16]



***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**Hackers will perform at Alabama Music Hall on Saturday [Tuscumbia]
[Siblings are finalists on USA Network's "Nashville Star"]
http://tinyurl.com/2uqt5c
Florence Times-Daily 15 February 2007

**Saturday, February 17, 2007
History Channel
7-8pm -- Modern Marvels - George Washington Carver Tech.
One of the 20th century's greatest scientists, George Washington
Carver's influence is still felt. Rising from slavery to become one of
the world's most respected and honored men, he devoted his life to
understanding nature and the many uses for the simplest of plant life.
His scientific research in the late 1800s produced agricultural
innovations like crop rotation and composting. Part of the
"chemurgist" movement that changed the rural economy, he found
ingenious applications for the peanut, soybean, and sweet potato. At
Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Carver invented more than 300 uses for the
peanut, while convincing poor farmers to rotate cotton crops with
things that would add nutrients to the soil. A visionary, Carver
shared his knowledge free of charge, happy in his Tuskegee laboratory
where he could use his gifts to help others.

**Sisters Of Selma: Bearing Witness For Change
Monday, February 19, 2007 8:00PM APT
This program is an unabashedly spiritual take on the Selma, Alabama,
voting rights marches of 1965 from some of its unsung foot soldiers -
Catholic nuns. Following the violence of Bloody Sunday," sisters from
around the country answered Dr. Martin Luther King's call to join the
protests in Selma. Never before in American history had avowed Catholic
women made so public a political statement. Risking personal safety to
bring change, the sisters found themselves being changed in turn - and
they tell viewers how. Selma blacks testify about the importance of
Catholic clergy in their lives, and explain why it took until the year
2000 for them to become fully enfranchised. Newfound dramatic archival
footage carries much of the story. In 2003, director Jayasri Hart
reunited the nuns to let them view themselves and the protests on tape
for the first time. Their recorded reactions help narrate the film.
Other Selmians, Catholic and Protestant, white and black, give their
views on the nuns' contributions to history. (CC)

**Justice Without Violence
Monday, February 19, 2007 9:00PM APT
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:30PM APT
The story of the now legendary Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956.
Locally engineered by the African American community, this nonviolent
protest to end bus segregation inspired a new era in freedom and human
rights struggles around the globe. Never has a movement so successfully
united a group of people across class, gender and age.


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Spirit Stroll offers step back in time
Small but enthusiastic crowd enjoys guided tour of historic Madison
http://tinyurl.com/24hwqn
Huntsville Times 15 February 2007

**Heritage Museum
PRESERVING BALDWIN
Now in its 25th year, facility exhibits artifacts of county's rural past
with help from winter visitors
http://tinyurl.com/ywcfwc
Mobile Press-Register 15 February 2007

**Historic [1920s] schoolhouse donated [to Elmore]
http://tinyurl.com/ywysfr
Montgomery Advertiser 15 February 2007

**Old [Figh-Pickett] house to be home to history
http://tinyurl.com/2gfa5o
Montgomery Advertiser 15 February 2007

**[Baldwin Co.] Heritage Museum board and membership meetings held
http://tinyurl.com/yrhx4n
Mobile Press-Register 15 February 2007

**1965 February 15- Nat King Cole, singer and pianist, joins the
ancestors in Santa Monica, California at the age of 45.  He succumbs to
lung cancer.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**b. 03-17-1919 - Nat "King" Cole - Montgomery, AL - d. 2-15-1965
singer: "King Cole Trio Time" [radio show]

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 15: http://tinyurl.com/yt226x
Mobile Press-Register

**`Say Hey Kid' [Willie Mays] comes home
http://tinyurl.com/29n5bm
Birmingham News 14 February 2007

**[Dr. Samuel] Eichold Papers Available in USA Archives
[long-time Mobile physician who died in May 2006]
Biofeedback [USA Biomedical Library] #69 p. 2 spring 2007

===========
**CULTURE
===========

**No state resident makes cut for 'Idol'
http://tinyurl.com/27mxw9
Mobile Press-Register 15 February 2007

**Quilters of Gee's Bend
National fame hasn't helped poor community
[also Tuscaloosa News: http://tinyurl.com/2faxdx ]
http://tinyurl.com/yqw2ud
Montgomery Advertiser 15 February 2007

**'When I Find the Ocean' DVD release is weeks away
[much of movie filmed in NW Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/2tysmm
Florence Times-Daily 15 February 2007

**Exhibition to display best of the best works from local artists
[37th Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition]
http://tinyurl.com/22smtl
Montgomery Advertiser 15 February 2007

**`First 48' flap reveals city's caricatures
http://tinyurl.com/2gewjl
Birmingham News 14 February 2007

**Panel wants to use grant to fund [Gee's Bend] ferry terminals
http://tinyurl.com/yunpj6
Birmingham News 14 February 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Former university [of Ala.] official [Sybil Todd] dead at 66
http://tinyurl.com/23erqx
Tuscaloosa News 15 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**[no entries this issue]



***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
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**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
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<http://activeculture.info/index.asp>

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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**Festival celebrates two renowned artists with Alabama connections
[Lillian Hellman and William Wyler; begins March 2]
http://tinyurl.com/2edsql
Montgomery Advertiser 17 February 2007

=============
**HISTORY
=============

**[State] Archives also a museum of art, sculpture and more
Curator cites artistic, historic merit
http://tinyurl.com/2xgt8h
Birmingham News 19 February 2007

**Commissioner tools history lesson [from old farm tools]
http://tinyurl.com/2toxls
Montgomery Advertiser 19 February 2007

**Writer's exclusive made news [Chris Bell, at Huntsville Times]
http://tinyurl.com/366afw
Montgomery Advertiser 19 February 2007

**Trust offers to buy, restore old county jail
http://tinyurl.com/2hl39k
Tuscaloosa News 19 February 2007

**Deputy recalls finding historical photos [in Montgomeery]
Jail mugs of 78 activists, including Rosa Parks and MLK, discovered in
an office 3 years ago
http://tinyurl.com/2bnwy3
Tuscaloosa News 19 February 2007

**Memorial begun for fallen officers
Blue Knights start fund in memory of Daniel Golden
http://tinyurl.com/2bdjp2
Huntsville Times 19 February 2007

**[Alabama native] 2002 February 19- Vonetta Flowers becomes the first
Black athlete from any country to win a gold medal in the Olympic Winter
Games. She  and her partner win the women's two-person bobsled event
at the Salt Lake City games. They finished their two runs in 1 minute
37.76 seconds.

1941 February 17- Joe Louis retains his world heavyweight boxing crown
by
	 knocking out Gus Dorazio.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 19: http://tinyurl.com/2fu7e4
Feb 18: http://tinyurl.com/24l6ng
Feb 17: http://tinyurl.com/2chwer
Feb 16: http://tinyurl.com/yqw7w6
Mobile Press-Register

**Baylor University founder had city ties
http://tinyurl.com/yotnyq
Tuscaloosa News 18 February 2007

**Settlement reached in Rosa Parks dispute
http://tinyurl.com/2c7gdm
Birmingham News 18 February 2007

**Mobile, Alabama: Surprise in the South
http://tinyurl.com/2z83sd
Toledo [OH] Blade 18 February 2007

**CULTURAL LEGACY: Birmingham exhibit reveals Alabama's rich and diverse
artistic history
http://tinyurl.com/ytu6cq
Mobile Press-Register 18 February 2007

**Three George's Candy Shop files for bankruptcy
[Mobile candy shop dates to 1917]
http://tinyurl.com/264ezs
Mobile Press-Register 17 February 2007

**Tuskegee University a study in black history
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=566421
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 17 February 2007

**1864 February 17: CSS "HL Hunley" [built in Mobile] becomes first
submarine to sink an enemy ship.
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**Black group traces roots
[Black Belt African American Genealogical and Historical Society]
http://tinyurl.com/2aaxd5
Montgomery Advertiser 16 February 2007

**[Junior Achievement of N. Ala.] Business Hall of Fame inducts 5
http://tinyurl.com/2y5aca
Huntsville Times 16 February 2007


===========
**CULTURE
===========

**Gee's Bend play continues tour
http://tinyurl.com/3a3b76
Montgomery Advertiser 19 February 2007

**Folk art could bolster tourism
http://tinyurl.com/2ugz6x
Montgomery Advertiser 19 February 2007

**On show in SoHo: Mobile photographer will be part of competition at
TriBeCa gallery
  [in Manhattan]
http://tinyurl.com/yw7g2e
Mobile Press-Register 18 February 2007

**Play about Gee's Bend quilters to be performed at the remote site
http://tinyurl.com/2ljv6p
Montgomery Advertiser 18 February 2007

**Hacker backers
Zac, Angela honored by chance to be part of Shoals recording heritage
http://tinyurl.com/2hak8f
Florence Times-Daily 18 February 2007

**From outside to inside: Folk artist exhibit opens in Birmingham
http://tinyurl.com/22mbzh
Tuscaloosa News 17 February 2007

**Shoals rallies round its Nashville stars
http://tinyurl.com/yoonwx
Florence Times-Daily 16 February 2007

**Prattville ghost hunters explore mysteries
http://tinyurl.com/2pqht5
Montgomery Advertiser 16 February 2007

**The spy who nabbed me
Auburn graduate Eric O'Neill, who helped the FBI catch a traitor, is the
subject of 'Breach'
http://tinyurl.com/29xnw6
Birmingham News 16 February 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**WWII vet helped launch 1st civilian satellite
Dick Esneault part of team behind OSCAR in 1961
http://tinyurl.com/2lhnsd
Huntsville Times 18 February 2007

**State environmental pioneer Mary Burks dies at 86
http://tinyurl.com/ysu292
Birmingham News 17 February 2007

**Longtime Scottsboro coach [Q.K.] Carter, 93, dies
[inducted to Ala. H.S. Hall of Fame in 1993]
http://tinyurl.com/35wwo8
Huntsville Times 17 February 2007

**Veterans cemetery organizer dies at 81
Supporters say effort to establish burial site in Baldwin will continue
despite the loss of Everette White
http://tinyurl.com/2fwyk2
Mobile Press-Register 16 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama
	 http://www.CyndisList.com/al.htm ):
* New Links:  1
* Updated Links: 0
* Removed Links: 0
* Total Links:  3306

Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama - Localities
	 http://www.CyndisList.com/al-local.htm ):
* New Links:  2
* Updated Links: 0
* Removed Links: 0
* Total Links:  2870



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A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
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-----Original Message-----
From: H-NET List for Southern History [mailto:H-SOUTH@...] On
Behalf Of Herr, David
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:05 AM
To: H-SOUTH@...
Subject: Announcement: Southern Jewish Historical Society Book Award

From: slangston [mailto:slangston@...]
Subject: Announcement: Southern Jewish Historical Society Book Award


The Southern Jewish Historical Society (SJHS) announces a prize for the
book that has made the most significant contribution to the field of
Jewish history of the American South. The winner will receive $500 and
will be the guest of the Society at its annual conference, where the
prize will be presented.

The prize is awarded every four years. This round of submissions is for
books published between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2006.

Books must focus on Jewish history within the southern United States,
defined for the purposes of this competition as the former Confederate
states as well as the border states. Works examining the history of
Southern Jews within the broader history of the South, or within the
history of American Jews in general will also be considered.

All submissions must be non-fiction and may include standard monographs,
memoirs, biographies, and edited collections. Books must be in English
and must be original works. Works outside the field of history, as well
as reprints, reissues, or updated versions of earlier works will not be
considered.

Publishers or authors should submit three (3) copies of books meeting
the above criteria to:


SJHS Book Prize Committee

Weiner, Yancy, Dempsey & Diggs, LLP

Attn: Barbara

1718 Peachtree NW #990

Atlanta, GA  30309



All submissions must be received by April 15, 2007. Entries will be
judged by an independent committee of scholars consisting of Dr. Karla
Goldman of the Jewish Women's Archive (chair), Dr. Stephen J. Whitfield
of Brandeis University, and Dr. Stuart Rockoff of the
Goldring/Woldenberg Institute for Southern Jewish Life. The winner will
be announced in advance of the SJHS's annual conference to be held in
Washington, D.C., November 2-4, 2007.
Submissions cannot be returned to the applicant.


For more information, or to offer nominations, contact Karla Goldman at
617-383-6771 or kgoldman@....




__________________________________________

David Herr
Editor, H-South
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Laurinburg, NC

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**FEBRUARY 28 LECTURE ON THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUAL at AU
    Auburn University Associate Professor of Voice Rosephanye Dunn-Powell
will speak on "The African-American Spiritual:  Song Creating Community"
at 3 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 in the Special Collections and
Archives Department, located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown
Draughon Library.
    This lecture is part of the Discover Auburn:  A Special Lecture
Series and is sponsored by the A. U. Libraries, the A. U. Center for the
Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, and the A.U.
Bookstore.  Refreshments will follow the program.
	 AU Libraries: http://www.lib.auburn.edu/


**AU LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUALS
    The Special Collections and Archives Department has mounted an
exhibit to enhance the February 28 lecture by Dr. Rosephanye Dunn-Powell
on "The African-American Spiritual:  Song Creating Community."
    Located in the three large standing glass cases on the north side of
the department (facing Samford Hall), the exhibit features numerous
photographs, books, sheet music, song transcriptions, and art work
concerning the history of African-American spirituals.
    The Special Collections and Archives Department is located on the
GROUND FLOOR of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.
	 AU Libraries: http://www.lib.auburn.edu/


**AU LIBRARY EXHIBIT:  WAPI RADIO STATION
    In September 1922 WMAV ("We Make a Voice") began radio broadcasting
on this campus.  In 1926 the radio station became WAPI ("W" plus
"Alabama Polytechnic Institute").  The Special Collections and Archives
Department has mounted an exhibit located in five flat glass cases
featuring the early history of WAPI radio including numerous
photographs, program transcripts, telegrams, correspondence, and other
documents.
    The Special Collections and Archives Department is located on the
GROUND FLOOR of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.
	 AU Libraries: http://www.lib.auburn.edu/

**8th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama, March 2-4, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/36n7lc
PR Newswire [NYC] 20 February 2007

**[State] Archives announces Saturday activities
http://tinyurl.com/235q6u
Mobile Press-Register 20 February 2007


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Schools in south show their age
Board tour of Whitesburg [built in late 1950s], Mountain Gap highlights
pressing repair needs
http://tinyurl.com/ysajlp
Huntsville Times 21 February 2007

**Ghost tales add to chill on walking tour of past
'Spirit Stroll' is monthly event for [Madison] sesquicentennial
http://tinyurl.com/258sys
Huntsville Times 21 February 2007

**[Madison] Sesquicentennial under way with mayor's proclamation
Celebration of city's 150th birthday begins with cake
http://tinyurl.com/25hvvz
Huntsville Times 21 February 2007

**[Restaurant] Still shining in Bessemer
The Bright Star celebrates its centennial year with no signs of slowing
down
http://tinyurl.com/ysvzo2
Birmingham News 21 February 2007

**Obama to headline Selma voting rights march commemoration
http://tinyurl.com/2kyqtq
Tuscaloosa News 21 February 2007

**Selling the old [county] jail is a win-win situation
http://tinyurl.com/358uo2
Tuscaloosa News 21 February 2007

**[Millbrook] Residents recall Civil Rights Movement
http://tinyurl.com/2snzbm
Prattville Progress 21 February 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 21: http://tinyurl.com/2crmnz
Mobile Press-Register

**Freedom Riders Relive History
http://tinyurl.com/3ajqb3
WTVF-TV [Nashville] 20 February 2007

**Vice President [Wm. Rufus] King an Alabama leader unique in U.S.
history
[only v-p ever sworn in on foreign soil--Cuba]
http://tinyurl.com/yse2rw
Montgomery Advertiser 20 February 2007

**1963 February 20- Baseball great, Willie "The Say Hey Kid" Mays, signs
with the San Francisco Giants as baseball's highest paid player (at that
time). He will earn $100,000 a year.

1963 February 20- Charles Barkley is born in Leeds, Alabama.  He will
forego his senior year at Auburn University to enter the NBA as a
forward for the Philadelphia 76ers.  Barkley will post averages of 20 or
more points and at least 10 rebounds per game for 11 seasons. His
achievements during that span will be remarkable. He will be an All-NBA
First Team selection in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1993, an All-NBA
Second Team pick in 1986, 1987, 1992, 1994 and 1995 and an All-NBA Third
Team choice in 1996.  He will be selected to 10 consecutive All-Star
Games, and receive more All Star votes than any other player in 1994,
and will be MVP in the 1991 All-Star classic.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Black history [including Alabama's] and its preservation [editorial]
http://tinyurl.com/yubxyt
Anniston Star 19 February 2007

**Mardi Gras came to Birmingham, shivered, vanished in Victorian era
Winter made it mighty hard to party at times
http://tinyurl.com/ytob7w
Birmingham News 19 February 2007


===========
**CULTURE
===========

**Cherokee group drops [cultural center] site plan size
http://tinyurl.com/36sune
Montgomery Advertiser 21 February 2007

**Fans rally behind 'Nashville Star' hopefuls [Hacker siblings]
http://tinyurl.com/33pqkr
Montgomery Advertiser 21 February 2007

**Charlie 'Tin Man' Lucas, other artists to appear in national TV spots
[promoting Year of Alabama Arts; see
http://www.800alabama.com/yoa/yearofartsbrochure.pdf ]
http://tinyurl.com/33aa3b
Montgomery Advertiser 21 February 2007

**Tide [basketball] program part of ABC documentary
http://tinyurl.com/yq2oc7
Birmingham News 20 February 2007

**Cherokee group cuts acres for Goosepond cultural site
Tribe hopes to get Scottsboro council to OK new plan
http://tinyurl.com/yvw6hh
Huntsville Times 20 February 2007

**Auburn graduate's [Eric O'Neill] espionage tale earns Hollywood
spotlight
http://tinyurl.com/2vedko
Decatur Daily 20 February 2007

===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Charles Langford, 84, Lawyer Who Represented Rosa Parks, Dies
http://tinyurl.com/2qs3zr
New York Times 20 February 2007

**Cultural leader, horticulturist Max McGill dies
http://tinyurl.com/yptjo6
Mobile Press-Register 20 February 2007

**[Methodist] Minister [Rev. Gerry Hearin] was known for his eloquence
http://tinyurl.com/2v59oy
Tuscaloosa News 20 February 2007

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**BONUS MATERIAL
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**Mobile Mardi Gras
http://www.al.com/mardigras/

**Alabama Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America
http://www.founderspatriots.org/societies/al.htm


***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**Red Tails: The Saga of the Tuskegee Airmen
http://tinyurl.com/yvlbog
Fox News 25 February 2007 2am CT


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Out of MLK's shadow
[Rev. Fred] Shuttlesworth at peace with civil rights legacy
http://tinyurl.com/2lvhp8
Birmingham News 23 February 2007

**Old Princeton's restaurant in Decatur to be sold at auction
[open almost two decades]
http://tinyurl.com/2rzh8w
Decatur Daily 23 February 2007

**University Club turns 60 today
http://tinyurl.com/2nlyg9
Tuscaloosa News 23 February 2007

**Girl Scouts get taste of state history
http://tinyurl.com/2ajgcd
Montgomery Advertiser 23 February 2007

**Finding roots
Scant slave records give African-Americans tougher hurdles tracking
http://tinyurl.com/2jpvn4
Birmingham News 22 February 2007

**He [Leon Royer of Gulf Shores] helped bring the world Post-It Notes
http://tinyurl.com/yuvt2b
Mobile Press-Register 22 February 2007

**War Dogs sets program for heroes
[program by Alabama War Dogs Foundation]
http://tinyurl.com/ypgb8b
Birmingham News 22 February 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 23: http://tinyurl.com/yu7mok
Feb 22: http://tinyurl.com/yryd9l
Mobile Press-Register

**[U.S. Rep. Bud] Cramer announces plans for Muscle Shoals Heritage Area
http://tinyurl.com/2tnx4e
Florence Times-Daily 21 February 2007

**1940 February 21- John Lewis is born in Troy, Alabama.  He will become
founder and chairman of SNCC, organizer of the Selma-to-Montgomery March
in 1965, executive  director of the Voter Education Project, and
congressman from Georgia's 5th District.  Lewis' power will continue to
be felt when he is named Democratic deputy whip by Speaker of the House
Thomas S. Foley in 1991.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html


===========
**CULTURE
===========

**Priceless Italian paintings return to town library [in Alexander City]
http://tinyurl.com/2eq3yq
Montgomery Advertiser 23 February 2007

**Two of a kind
Hackers make it to final three on 'Nashville Star'
http://tinyurl.com/2jr72f
Florence Times-Daily 23 February 2007

**[Alabama] Steeldogs in Arena Football: Road to Glory Video Game
http://tinyurl.com/yqxb4u
OurSports Central 21 February 2007

**Into the light
Biochemistry major channels life's hardships into book
[first novel "The Rocking Chair" by Joshua Mauney]
http://tinyurl.com/q6p43
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 20 February 2007

**Theatre UAB to perform a play a day as part of a nationwide relay
http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=105133
UAB Reporter 19 February 2007

**AU THEATRE TO HOST ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL'S PRODUCTION OF "GEE'S
BEND"
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival's world premiere production of "Gee's
Bend," a drama with music based on the life of a rural Alabama
quiltmaker, will come to Auburn University Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 25,
at 2:30 p.m.
http://www.ocm.auburn.edu/ecommons/feb07/story6.html
Auburn E-Commons February 2007

**AU PROFESSOR'S BOOK ON NEIL ARMSTRONG HONORED BY CHOICE MAGAZINE
Auburn University Professor James R. Hansen's book, "First Man: The Life
of Neil A. Armstrong," has been named by Choice magazine as one of the
Outstanding Academic Books of 2006. Choice, the publication of the
Association of College and Research Libraries, listed Hansen's book in
its January issue among the top 10 percent of more than 7,000 works
reviewed last year.
http://www.ocm.auburn.edu/ecommons/feb07/story2.html
Auburn E-Commons February 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**He was a pediatrician kids didn't want to outgrow
Charles Upchurch was gentle, but had strong work ethic
http://tinyurl.com/ywkjfh
Huntsville Times 22 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**[no entries this issue]



***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

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-----Original Message-----
From: H-NET List for Women's History [mailto:H-WOMEN@...] On
Behalf Of Marisa Chappell, Ph.D.
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 12:56 PM
To: H-WOMEN@...
Subject: Need a Helen Keller lecturer

Date:  Friday, February 23 2007 12:13 pm
From:  Julieanne Phillips <juphilli@...>
Subject:  Need a Helen Keller lecturer

Dear Colleagues,

Can you recommend a Helen Keller scholar? At Urbana University, a small
private liberal arts university in mid-Ohio, we hold a yearly Swedenborg
Lecure. Helen Keller was an outspoken Swedenborgian and we thought it
would
fit well into our lecture series. Thanks for your consideration,

Julieanne Phillips, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
American History
jphillips@...

Urbana University
579 College Way
Urbana, OH 43078
937.484.1265 (office)
937.484.1342 (fax)

Hi A.J.,

Kim Nielsen, at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, has written quite
a bit on Keller. She wrote our entry for EOA.

http://www.uwgb.edu/history/faculty/nielsen.htm

Hope this helps.

Claire

>>> "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...> 02/23/07 1:15 PM >>>


-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Marisa Chappell, Ph.D.
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 12:56 PM
To: H-WOMEN@...
Subject: Need a Helen Keller lecturer

Date:  Friday, February 23 2007 12:13 pm
From:  Julieanne Phillips <juphilli@...>
Subject:  Need a Helen Keller lecturer

Dear Colleagues,

Can you recommend a Helen Keller scholar? At Urbana University, a small
private liberal arts university in mid-Ohio, we hold a yearly Swedenborg
Lecure. Helen Keller was an outspoken Swedenborgian and we thought it
would
fit well into our lecture series. Thanks for your consideration,

Julieanne Phillips, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
American History
jphillips@...

Urbana University
579 College Way
Urbana, OH 43078
937.484.1265 (office)
937.484.1342 (fax)

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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**[J. Wes] Yoder to sign debut novel ["Carry My Bones"] Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/ytucxx
Mobile Press-Register 25 February 2007

**10th Annual George Lindsey UNA Film Festival March 1-4
http://www.lindseyfilmfest.com/

**Hellman's, Wyler's Alabama connection [March 2-11]
Festival honors [film] director, playwright with family ties to Marengo
County
http://tinyurl.com/2yoqwj
Birmingham News 25 February 2007

**Demopolis festival pays tribute to famed Hollywood collaborators
Hellman, Wyler [March 2-11 in Birmingham and Demopolis]
http://tinyurl.com/2arbz4
Tuscaloosa News 25 February 2007

**Hillary Clinton joins Selma bridge crossing [on Sunday, March 4]
http://tinyurl.com/28ueb7
Montgomery Advertiser 26 February 2007

**The 27th Annual Writing Today Writers' Conference
March 9 and 10, 2007 Birmingham-Southern College
Grand Master: Gay Talese
http://www.bsc.edu/events/writing-today/index.htm


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**1965 February 26- During civil rights demonstrations in Selma,
Alabama, that were designed to get the attention of the Johnson
administration in
Washington, DC, police violence erupts against the marchers. In an
effort to protect his mother from a beating, 26 year old Jimmie Lee
Jackson strikes a police officer.  He will join the ancestors after
being shot and killed.  Civil rights activists, outraged by his death,
will plan a march from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to Montgomery.

FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 26: http://tinyurl.com/yqdzzs
Feb 25: http://tinyurl.com/ywf897
Feb 24: http://tinyurl.com/29dgma
Mobile Press-Register

**Memories of Red's and a Bayou [La Batre] long gone
http://tinyurl.com/yq68s3
Mobile Press-Register 25 February 2007

**JOYCE LAMONT: Time for Foster's makeover; My Turn
[Historic Foster Auditorium on UA campus]
http://tinyurl.com/29g463
Tuscaloosa News 25 February 2007

**Selma set for 'Backwards March'
http://tinyurl.com/2b8nfd
Montgomery Advertiser 25 February 2007

**[Central-Carver] Museum to celebrate anniversary
http://tinyurl.com/2efuvc
Gadsden Times 25 February 2007

**FBI given civil rights cold cases [includes 9 in Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/2a3dmm
Montgomery Advertiser 24 February 2007

**Gaineswood to receive renovations
http://tinyurl.com/yplcb2
Demopolis Times 24 February 2007

**Mobile FBI office planning to celebrate Black History Month
[Keynote speaker is Michael Jackson, first black D.A. in Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/2csr6t
Mobile Press-Register 24 February 2007

**Georgia film crew exploring [2001] Haleyville murder case
http://tinyurl.com/yppn8m
Florence Times-Daily 24 February 2007

**Living history
"Sheyann Webb-Christburg speaks to sixth-grade students at Wetumpka
Intermediate School in Wetumpka during a Black History Month program
Friday. Webb-Christburg's story is told in the book and movie "Selma,
Lord, Selma."
http://tinyurl.com/2hy992
Montgomery Advertiser 24 February 2007

**FADED PIECE OF HISTORY [sign of warehouse wall]
http://tinyurl.com/2e8sos
Clarke County Democrat 22 February 2007

**Former Tuskegee airmen present history lesson for kids
http://tinyurl.com/2eg5fk
Delaware County [PA] Times 22 February 2007


===========
**CULTURE
===========

**A league of their own
The Mobile Miss-Fits, a new women's roller derby team, looks for members
to join the sport-on-wheels
http://tinyurl.com/25f3ql
Mobile Press-Register 26 February 2007

**'Sweet Tee, Ala.,' is setting for local Southern comedy
[Filmed in the Shoals area]
http://tinyurl.com/2yau3q
Decatur Daily 25 February 2007

**Former Decatur resident an extra in big-screen release
[Vanessa Volin, "Catch and Release"]
http://tinyurl.com/28vzve
Decatur Daily 25 February 2006

**Huntsville ready for blastoff
Town hopes 'Constellation' filming will be tourism draw
http://tinyurl.com/2gxadv
Chicago Sun-Times 25 February 2007

**Movie ["Constellation"] puts Huntsville in the spotlight
http://tinyurl.com/27m5pb
Montgomery Advertiser 25 February 2007

**[Montgomery] Art Guild names 2007 prize winners
http://tinyurl.com/yokdfv
Montgomery Advertiser 25 February 2007

**Writer Ravi Howard plans to set next novel in Montgomery
http://tinyurl.com/25bj6t
Montgomery Advertiser 24 February 2007

**Chapter One of Ravi Howard's "Like Trees, Walking" [set in Mobile]
http://tinyurl.com/237c97
Montgomery Advertiser 24 February 2007

**Fans flock to Nashville to support the Hackers
http://tinyurl.com/2x2exm
Florence Times-Daily 24 February 2007



===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Robert 'Bob' Moore dies at 73; retired Mobile police detective
http://tinyurl.com/2d5gu6
Mobile Press-Register 24 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Recent Books with Alabama Connections

Landsberg, Brian K. _Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the
1965 Voting Rights Act_. University Press of Kansas, March 2007



***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

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http://activeculture.info/index.asp
<http://activeculture.info/index.asp>

**activeculture.info History Events
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**activeculture.info Literature Events
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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**Soundstage/Alabama Public Televiison
Mark Knopfler And Emmylou Harris
Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:00PM APT
Friday, March 02, 2007 4:00AM APT
A great venue, a great tour, two great artists and a great performance.
So it was for icons Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris at the Gibson
Amphitheatre in Los Angeles before a sold-out crowd. Their concert
together, one of only a handful in the U.S., followed the release of All
the Roadrunning, their long-awaited rootsy collaboration. That special
night has been captured in this unique Soundstage episode. Highlights
include the title track All the Roadrunning," Emmylou's "Red Dirt Girl"
and Knopfler's "Speedway at Nazareth."" (CC)
More info: http://tinyurl.com/2zyf8s

**Clinton, Obama to speak in Selma
Event on Sunday commemorates 1965 voting rights march
http://tinyurl.com/24h476
Tuscaloosa News 27 February 2007

**'Bridge Crossing Jubilee'
Date: Friday, March 02, 2007 At 08:00 AM
Duration: 3 Days
Contact Info:
National Voting Rights Museum & Institute 1012 Water Avenue P.O. Box
1366 Selma, Alabama 36702-2516  Email: info@...
URL: http://www.nvrmi.org/

**"Colonies of the Gulf Coast," 17th Annual
City: Dauphin Island
Begin Date: Saturday, March 3, 2007
End Date: Sunday, March 4, 2007
Location: Historic Fort Gaines
Other Location: 51 Bienville Blvd. Dauphin Island
Explore life on Isle Dauphine in the 1700-1800's. Visit with French,
British, and Spanish soldiers. Soldiers will be on hand to demonstrate
soldier life of this time period. They will do drilling and fire the
cannon. You'll see authentic camping in the Fort. There will be basket
weaving, and open-hearth cooking. Our resident Blacksmith will
demonstrate his craft in the Fort's original Backsmith Shop.
Hours: 9am til 5pm daily
Contact Information
Phone: 251-861 6992
Web Site: http://www.dauphinisland.org

**Reflections of the South
Hamilton recognizes talents of folk potter, other artists
["Reflections of the South," Jerry Brown Arts-Festival sponsored by
the-Northwest Alabama Arts Council
When: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday
Where: E.T. Sims Neighborhood Facilities Building,-371 7th Ave. S.W.,
Hamilton]
http://tinyurl.com/2tqcmd
Florence Times-Daily 27 February 2007

**Island Affair to honor women of Gee's Bend
Academy of Arts and Sciences to hold annual event March 10
http://tinyurl.com/2b2kne
Mobile Press-Register 27 February 2007

**Alabama Archives department announces 'how-to' series
http://tinyurl.com/33kyol
Mobile Press-Register 28 February 2007



=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Film wades into thick of state constitution debate
Student's documentary ["It's a Thick Book"] notes size, 'bizarre' rules
http://tinyurl.com/2jfnve
Huntsville Times 28 February 2007

**Civil rights cold cases reopened [including some in Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/2quf6p
Birmingham News 28 February 2007

**[Birmingham] Broadcasters of yesteryear still refuse to bite tongues
http://tinyurl.com/3ab2lp
Birmingham News 28 February 2007

**[Central-Carver] Museum celebrates [first] anniversary
http://tinyurl.com/2627cb
Gadsden Times 28 February 2007

**Foundry [in Florence] built in 1888 being sold for scrap
http://tinyurl.com/2bretl
Montgomery Advertiser 28 February 2007

**Old Elmore school gets new assignment
[3-room schholhouse dates to 1920s; Hank Williams performed there in
early 1940s]
http://tinyurl.com/2yrrc3
Montgomery Advertiser 28 February 2007

**There goes the neighborhood
Group aims to preserve landmarks like Madison's Pension Row
http://tinyurl.com/yu4r28
Huntsville Times 27 February 2007

**Florence foundry being sold for scap after 115 years
[see also http://tinyurl.com/yspwpp ]
http://tinyurl.com/22drcg
Florence Times-Daily 27 February 2007

**3 locals share their genealogical journey
http://tinyurl.com/26gedl
Montgomery Advertiser 27 February 2007

**Athens' Elm Street won't be renamed for MLK
Council cites lack of support, suggests stretch of U.S. 72
http://tinyurl.com/yr7dqu
Huntsville Times 27 February 2007

**Athens still without a street named for civil rights martyr [MLK, Jr.]
http://tinyurl.com/29txma
Decatur Daily 27 February 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Feb 28: http://tinyurl.com/2ltypq
Feb 27: http://tinyurl.com/yo9p94
Mobile Press-Register

**Making everything worthwhile
Parks and Rec Director inducted into the ASA Hall of Fame
[Sandra Battles; Alabama Amateur Softball Association HoF]
http://www.gadsdenmessenger.com/
Gadsden Messenger 7 February 2007 p2A

**Celebrating Black History Month
Recording History [in Gadsden]
http://www.gadsdenmessenger.com/
Gadsden Messenger 7 February 2007 pp 4B, 10B


===========
**CULTURE
===========

**MTV's `Two-A-Days' has lost a bit of its luster in its second season
at Hoover
http://tinyurl.com/2sj5jv
Birmingham News 28 February 2007

===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Opera singer John A. Thresh dies at age 86
http://tinyurl.com/2bpdvm
Mobile Press-Register 27 February 2007

**Tommye Miller dies; longtime journalist
Longtime staffer was among pioneers who created modern-day Living
section
http://tinyurl.com/26wmcu
Mobile Press-Register 27 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Remembering "Norma Rae" [filmed in Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/3ckek3
The Nation 12 March 2007

**Recent Books with Alabama Connections

Sims, Kassandra. _Falling Upwards_. Tor, 2007. [Novel set in Wales and
Alabama--really!]

**Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama - Localities
	 http://www.CyndisList.com/al-local.htm ):
* New Links:  3
* Updated Links: 0
* Removed Links: 0
* Total Links:  2873



***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: History of Southern Industrialization
[mailto:H-SOUTHERN-INDUSTRY@...] On Behalf Of Michael Gagnon
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:37 AM
To: H-SOUTHERN-INDUSTRY@...
Subject: H-Southern-Industry: New Primary Collection

JSU Library Donation

Jacksonville State University Eminent Scholar Glen Browder -who
previously served as a U.S. Congressman, Alabama Secretary of State, and
Alabama State Legislator has donated his public and private records to
the JSU library. In this project, Jacksonville State University has
inventoried, organized, analyzed, and made publicly available the
Browder Collection, which consists of information, documents,
manuscripts, and scrapbooks pertaining to the life and career of Glen
Browder.

The Browder Collection has been prepared as a resource for interested
citizens, news journalists, and academic researchers. Over 300 boxes
(450 linear feet) of material have been processed for housing at JSU's
Houston Cole Library and the JSU McClellan Center in Anniston. This task
is an ambitious undertaking, and it promises a uniquely valuable
collection for several reasons: (a) Browder's broad combination of
academic, political, and governmental activism at local, state, and
national levels, (b) his realistic yet positive and effective style of
civic service and democratic leadership, and (c) his assistance in
compiling and structuring the material for open, objective analysis as
well as his own approach to government, politics, and political science.

To maintain the historical reality of the material as much as possible,
the actual boxed files will remain for the most part in their original
physical condition and order; however, the primary objective is to
provide an analytic guidebook that enhances, in printed and electronic
manner, the collection's value as an historiographic record of Browder's
career and as useful insight into important aspects of Alabama politics
and American democracy. Initially, we simply inventoried boxes of
documents; now we are organizing a more comprehensive, coherent
guidebook within a political and philosophical framework reflecting the
nature of Browder's public service. Most of the material has already
been reconfigured in thematic format; and various aspects of Browder's
work are being analyzed and incorporated for easy access and usage.

This analytic guidebook is available online at:
www.jsu.edu/depart/library/browdercollection/.

For additional information, contact: JSU University Librarian Bill
Hubbard (256-782-5248, bhubbard@...) or Glen Browder (256-782-5650,
browder@...).

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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**Venues set for today's [George Lindsey/UNA] film festival
http://tinyurl.com/2g42xg
Florence Times-Daily 2 March 2007

**Bloody Sunday to be commemorated this weekend
http://tinyurl.com/3yovfu
Birmingham News 1 March 2007

**Discovering Alabama: Alabama Trails
Monday, March 05, 2007 8:30PM APT
Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:00AM APT
In this Discovering Alabama special, Doug Phillips explores the history
of Alabama trails from prehistoric times to the present, hiking down
traditional trails along rivers and through mountains, and introducing
viewers to less traditional trails as well - birding, canoeing, fishing,
golfing and more.

**Marengo County Historical Society Spring Pilgrimage
Region: River Heritage
County: Marengo
City: Demopolis
Begin Date: Saturday, March 10, 2007
End Date: Sunday, March 11, 2007
Come tour 19th and early 20th century homes of Demopolis, featuring Lyon
Hall, c.1850, Gaineswood, c.1843, and the recently renovated Town Hall,
c. 1843, as well as local churches and over ten private residences. The
two day pilgrimage will be Saturday, March 10, from 10:00am-5:00pm and
Sunday, March 11, from 2:00pm-5:00pm. Tickets are $20.00 per person,
children under 12 $5.00, and will be available each day of the event at
each home on the tour and at historic Bluff Hall at 407 North
Commissioners Avenue in Demopolis. Tickets may be purchased before the
event by contacting the Marengo County Historical Society.
Hours: Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 334-289-9644
Email: marengohistory@...

**Lowndesboro Spring Fling
Region: River Heritage
County: Lowndes
City: Lowndesboro
Begin Date: Saturday, March 17, 2007
Stroll about the historic antebellum town of Lowndesboro and enjoy the
following events [among others]:
~Four Lowndesboro Churches built in the 1800's will be open for viewing.
~Visit the newly restored Lewis-Smith Cemetery where many of the
founders of Lowndesboro are buried.
Proceeds go to the historic preservation of Lanesboro's Landmarks.
For more information or Lunch tickets contact: Laura Howard (334)
278-3382 or Dot Dickson (334) 278-3281.
Address : CME Church & Marengo Plantation
Phone : 334-278-3281 (Always call and confirm events.)
Admission Fee : Free
Phone: 334-278-3281
Web Site: http://http://marengoplantation.com/

**World's Smallest St. Patrick's Day Parade
Enterprise March 17
http://tinyurl.com/3ysnju


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Sudden storm evokes memories of 1994
http://tinyurl.com/ypxk8z
Montgomery Advertiser 2 March 2007

**Education Briefs
Jim Day, assistant professor of history at the University of Montevallo,
presented "The History of Alabama's Constitutions" to the Mobile chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The presentation was
sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation's Road Scholars program.
Birmingham News 2 March 2007

**G.W. Jones joins [Alabama] engineer Hall of Fame
http://tinyurl.com/38j5ne
Huntsville Times 1 March 2007

**A&A Ash Jewelers to end 104-year run in city
http://tinyurl.com/2lnjx7
Birmingham News 1 March 2007

**A fitting tribute?
Country singer seeks a street for 'Cousin Josh'
[Athens radio personality George Rose, who died in December 2006]
http://tinyurl.com/2uq3zp
Decatur Daily 1 March 2007

**[Cherokee Co.] Museum to host exhibit
http://tinyurl.com/39249d
Gadsden Times 1 March 2007

**Fitzgerald Museum taps into past for annual gala
http://tinyurl.com/36fdr8
Montgomery Advertiser 1 March 2007

**1914 March 1- Ralph Waldo Ellison is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
He will become a well known author, best known for his book "Invisible
Man," for which he will win the 1952 National Book Award. [Ellison
attended Tuskegee Institute.]

1927 March 1- Harry Belafonte is born in New York City. He will become a
successful folk singer, actor, and winner of the first Emmy awarded to
an African American.  His commitment to civil and human rights will lead
him to march with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Montgomery, Selma, and
Washington, DC.  Among his achievements will be Kennedy Center Honors in
1989.

1949 March 1- Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion after
holding the title for a record eleven years and eight months.

1960 March 1- The Alabama State Board of Education expels nine Alabama
State University students for participating in sit-in demonstrations.

1960 March 1- Montgomery, Alabama, police break up a protest
demonstration on the Alabama State University campus and arrest
thirty-five students, a teacher and her husband.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Mar 2: http://tinyurl.com/yp799l
Mar 1: http://tinyurl.com/35jmwn
Mobile Press-Register

**A white boy's black history [op-ed column by J.L. Strickland]
http://tinyurl.com/2nmpez
Anniston Star 28 February 2007

**Hearing on combining towns [Argo & Springville] draws 250 in Argo
http://tinyurl.com/2uu6w4
Birmingham News 28 February 2007

**Documentary film puts light on movement to constitutional reform
["It's a Thick Book"
http://tinyurl.com/2qw94v
Montgomery Advertiser 28 February 2007

**BJCC expansion could house SEC museum
http://tinyurl.com/2k3mpw
Birmingham News 28 February 2007


===========
**CULTURE
===========

**From the Black Belt to Hollywood
Demopolis native pores through his hometown's history to honor stage and
film legends Lillian Hellman and William Wyler
http://tinyurl.com/25383j
Birmingham News 2 March 2007

**'Gee's Bend' [play] a fitting tribute to famed quilters
http://tinyurl.com/26la4t
Birmingham News 2 March 2007

**'Goober' [George Lindsey] prepares for annual state film festival
http://tinyurl.com/28nbk8
Montgomery Advertiser 2 March 2007

**Angela wins [Nashville] 'Star'
Hacker sister will receive contract with Warner Bros.
http://tinyurl.com/2ftp9o
Florence Times-Daily 2 March 2007

**Beyond quilts and the ferry
Stage production showcases Gee's Bend history
http://tinyurl.com/2qmn6p
Birmingham News 1 March 2007

**Basic training
Young filmmakers can learn the ropes at Lindsey fest
http://tinyurl.com/39rlqz
Florence Times-Daily 1 March 2007

**Sweet Tee's 'Legend'
Local couple ready first full-length feature [film] for festivals
http://tinyurl.com/25fse8
Florence Times-Daily 1 March 2007

**Hacker siblings to learn fate on 'Nashville Star'
http://tinyurl.com/ys3xjl
Florence Times-Daily 1 March 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Speaker's Stand ... In memory of Mary Burks
["mother of the environmental movement in Alabama" who died recently]
http://tinyurl.com/2q48bl
Anniston Star 1 March 2007

**Robert Luckie, who founded Luckie & Co., dies at 89
Advertising legend liked clever campaigns, civic life
[obituary at http://tinyurl.com/29ocbe ]
http://tinyurl.com/3xe65c
Birmingham News 1 March 2007

**Rev. B. Davie Napier, 91; civil rights activist led Pacific School of
Religion [He graduated from Samford--then Howard College--in 1936.]
http://tinyurl.com/37uthz
Los Angeles Times 28 February 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields in Alabama
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/AL/Airfields_AL.htm


** Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama - Localities
	 http://www.CyndisList.com/al-local.htm ):
* New Links:  22
* Updated Links: 0
* Removed Links: 0
* Total Links:  2896



***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

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<http://www.anes.uab.edu/alahistnews0.htm>

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alabamahistory archives at Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alabamahistory
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alabamahistory>

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reverse chronological order within each section. All links are working
at the time I send this email and post them to the web page listing.

Feel free to forward this email as desired....

**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html
<http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html>

**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
http://activeculture.info/index.asp
<http://activeculture.info/index.asp>

**activeculture.info History Events
http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf <http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf>

**activeculture.info Literature Events
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have linked here. Web sites related to some articles often appear in the
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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**USA history department to host conference on Hurricane Katrina
[March 7-10 at Museum of Mobile]
http://tinyurl.com/22x7ef
Mobile Press-Register 4 March 2007

**April in Talladega Pilgrimage
Begin Date: Friday, April 13, 2007
End Date: Saturday, April 14, 2007
Other Location: Various homes and churches
Visit the historic city of Talladega, and meet the friendly people as
you tour their beautiful homes. Pilgrimage activities include a tour of
historic homes, museum exhibit, cemetery walk, porch tours, English
teas, a visit to historic Ritz Theatre, and more. $18.50 adult admission
before March 1, 2007 or for groups of 15 or more; $10.00 child's
admission (under 12 years of age); $20.00 adult admission after March
1st.
Phone: 256-362-9075
Web Site: http://www.talladegachamber.com


=============
**HISTORY
=============

**BATTLESHIP MEMORIAL PARK PLAiN WRECKED [Katrina damage]
http://tinyurl.com/358sq2
Mobile Press-Register 5 March 2007

**Thousands trace historic steps [in Selma]
http://tinyurl.com/2udu7m
Birmingham News 5 March 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Mar 5: http://tinyurl.com/2jexdo
Mar 4: http://tinyurl.com/2tqs8b
Mar 3: http://tinyurl.com/2p9aga
Mobile Press-Register

**Hidden tunnel found in Decatur
City historians didn't know about pathway
http://tinyurl.com/ywepbl
Decatur Daily 4 March 2007

**Time capsule [at Central United Methodist Church] opens floodgate of
memories
http://tinyurl.com/28xt9o
Gadsden Times 4 March 2007

**Red Bay to celebrate 100 years
http://tinyurl.com/2za2pf
Florence Times-Daily 4 March 2007

**Restoration key to tourism boost [in Tallassee]
http://tinyurl.com/yuu5br
Montgomery Advertiser 4 March 2007

**[Viola] Liuzzo's legacy recalled by family during Alabama tour
http://tinyurl.com/yqkrdh
Montgomery Advertiser 4 March 2007

**Big basement was heart of humble [Paul Bear] Bryant home
http://tinyurl.com/yw9ske
Tuscaloosa News 4 March 2007

**U.S. House members begin Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Candidates Clinton, Obama to draw national media attention
http://tinyurl.com/34nkwm
Birmingham News 3 March 2007

**[Alabama Women's] Hall [of Fame] recognizes doctor, admiral
http://tinyurl.com/yno2vn
Montgomery Advertiser 3 March 2007

**Alabama Power history
"Dr. Leah Rawls Atkins...her newest book, "Developed for the Service of
Alabama"- The Centennial History of Alabama Power Company, 1906-2006."
http://tinyurl.com/yrjd93
Clark County Democrat 1 March 2007

**The artistry of Lillian Hellman and William Wyler and their Alabama
connection.
"And the Oscar goes to...Birmingham! For The Hellman-Wyler Festival!
That's right, a real live, or at least real gold - Academy Award serves
as an icon for the Hellman-Wyler Festival beginning this weekend. It's a
celebration of the lives and work of playwright Lillian Hellman and film
director William Wyler. Lissa LeGrand explores their connection to
Alabama..."
http://wbhm.org/Tapestry/index.html
"Tapestry," WBHM-FM [Birmingham] 1 March 2007


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**CULTURE
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**Love of writing, food inspire children's book [by Dianne Pace]
http://tinyurl.com/ytdugf
Florence Times-Daily 5 March 2007

**Library focuses on 'Mockingbird'
http://tinyurl.com/3bgv47
Huntsville Times 4 March 2007

**Local `Heroes'
Birmingham native Ashley Crow waits like everyone else to find out about
her `Heroes' character
http://tinyurl.com/2azahf
Birmingham News 4 March 2007

**Mobile-born adventurer comes back to the Bay
[Mike] DeGruy to talk of wrecks, volcanoes and creatures of the deep
http://tinyurl.com/35yj2a
Mobile Press-Register 3 March 2007

**Cave 9 rocks with independence
Punk rock venue on Southside is all about music, not money
http://tinyurl.com/3bgyy8
Birmingham News 2 March 2007


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**DEATHS
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**John Henry Mealing "The Original Gandy Dancer"
[letter to editor about him 3 March 2007]
Obituary: http://tinyurl.com/36d8fr
Birmingham News 27 February 2007

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**BONUS MATERIAL
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**[no entries this issue]



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A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

Listings since July 2002:

Alabama History & Culture in the News
http://www.anes.uab.edu/alahistnews0.htm
<http://www.anes.uab.edu/alahistnews0.htm>

Listings prior to that date are in the Yahoo archives.

alabamahistory archives at Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alabamahistory
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alabamahistory>

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in
reverse chronological order within each section. All links are working
at the time I send this email and post them to the web page listing.

Feel free to forward this email as desired....

**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html
<http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html>

**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
http://activeculture.info/index.asp
<http://activeculture.info/index.asp>

**activeculture.info History Events
http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf <http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf>

**activeculture.info Literature Events
http://tinyurl.com/fnf5l <http://tinyurl.com/fnf5l>

AND NOW THE NEWS...

Additional articles can often be found at Google, Topix or Yahoo news
sites:

http://news.google.com/ <http://news.google.com/>
http://www.topix.net/ <http://www.topix.net/>
http://news.yahoo.com/ <http://news.yahoo.com/>

Please note that many articles continue beyond the single web page I
have linked here. Web sites related to some articles often appear in the
"Bonus Material" section.


COMING EVENTS*HISTORY**CULTURE**DEATHS*BONUS MATERIAL

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**COMING EVENTS
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**Cemetery preservation program is scheduled [March 10]
http://tinyurl.com/2f9ysy
Mobile Press-Register 6 March 2007

**32nd ANNUAL HISTORIC PILGRIMAGE AND ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE
MARCH 16th-18th 2007 Selma
http://pilgrimage.selmaalabama.com/historictour.htm

**'Battle of Horseshoe Bend' on March 24th and 25th
193rd anniversary http://www.nps.gov/hobe/

**Siege at Bridgeport 2007 March 23rd, 24th, and 25th
http://www.siegeatbridgeport.com/

**Spring Garden Tour of State Capitol
City: Montgomery
Begin Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
End Date: Sunday, April 1, 2007
Location: Alabama State Capitol
Enjoy the Spring Garden Tour of the State Capitol in Montgomery. The
inside of the Capitol will also be open for tours. Guest speakers will
be present.
Hours: 1 - 4p.m.

**Eufaula [historic homes] Pilgrimage March 30, 31 and  April 1, 2007
http://www.eufaulapilgrimage.com/

**April 20: Huntsville Madison County Public Library hosts Mary Badham
on Friday, April 20, 8-10 pm at the Main Library as part of its Big Read
Series: To Kill a Mockingbird.  Preliminary Information about Big Read
programming is available at http://www.hpl.lib.al.us/thebigread

**April 21: Alabama Literary Festival.  Montgomery.  Sponsored by the
Alabama Center for the Book.  http://www.alabamabookcenter.org/



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**HISTORY
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**Clay [House] Museum now exclusively an art gallery
http://tinyurl.com/ytersl
Huntsville Times 7 March 2007

**Old rails offer tranquil trail for riding, hiking
State's bloodiest Civil War battleground part of 11-mile trek
[in Limestone County]
http://tinyurl.com/yrzgfb
Huntsville Times 7 March 2007

**Business boom restores life to downtown Ensley
http://tinyurl.com/3e4f6e
Birmingham News 7 March 2007

**Group seeks places to map trail of city's historic sites
[Gardendale Historical Society]
http://tinyurl.com/3343bx
Birmingham News 7 March 2007

**City designates Glendale Gardens as historical district
http://tinyurl.com/24uyh2
Tuscaloosa News 7 March 2007

**1942 March 7- The first five cadets graduate from the Tuskegee Flying
School: Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. and Second Lieutenants Mac Ross,
Charles DeBow, L.R. Curtis, and George S. Roberts.  They will become
part of the famous 99th Pursuit Squadron.

1965 March 7- John Lewis leads a group of civil rights marchers across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where they are attacked by
Alabama state troopers and sheriff's deputies with tear gas and billy
clubs.  This violent confrontation will be known as "Bloody Sunday," and
will spark the historic Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march led by
Martin Luther King Jr.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Michigan teens enjoy history lesson [in Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/35lyph
Montgomery Advertiser 6 March 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
Mar 7: http://tinyurl.com/2w8m8g
Mar 6: http://tinyurl.com/2bkmwy
Mobile Press-Register

**Museum returning Civil War flag to Alabama
"A 146-year-old Confederate battle flag, which wound up in Nebraska
after being captured during the Civil War, is headed home.
This Confederate battle flag was captured during a battle in Missouri
and eventually found its way to the Museum of Nebraska History. The
society is returning the flag to Alabama. The Nebraska State Historical
Society has agreed to return to Alabama the remarkable artifact once
carried into battle by the 1st Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry."
http://tinyurl.com/2xegpf
Omaha World-Herald 5 March 2007


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**CULTURE
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**Young filmmakers [at Hoover H.S.] win national honor 2nd time
http://tinyurl.com/3yt29c
Birmingham News 7 March 2007

**Opening 'Thick Book'
Student's film touts need to rewrite big state constitution
http://tinyurl.com/ypjuxd
Huntsville Times 6 March 2007

**Cassandra King's latest novel takes new angle on divorce
http://tinyurl.com/2zb8rm
Birmingham News 6 March 2007


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**DEATHS
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**[no entries this issue]

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**BONUS MATERIAL
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**Fort Toulouse & Fort Jackson Living History Groups
http://www.fttoulousejackson.org/

**Recent Books with Alabama Connections

Petry, Alice Hall, ed. _On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections_.
University of Tennessee Press, 2007

**Jesse Owens Dies of Cancer at 66; Hero of the 1936 Berlin Olympics
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0912.html
New York Times 1 April 1980

**Society for the Study of Southern Literature Bibliography
[includes many Alabama authors]
http://www.missq.msstate.edu/sssl/



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A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

In the "New Releases" in the latest catalog from Pioneer Publishing,
there is a new book by Larry Caver:

"Transcriptions form Deeds & Mortgages, Autauga Co., AL (1820-1833)"

It is available on by phone or mail ONLY as they say it is listed with
them on a temporary basis (you will not find in on the website). The
phone # is 662-237-6010. The address is:

Pioneer Publishing Co.
PO Box 408
Carrollton MS 38917

According to the listing the book is 181 pages with index and is
reasonably priced ($20.00).