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


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

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama
http://www.alabamafolklife.org/folkevents.html

**Disquieting medical images displayed in UAB exhibition [until Dec. 7]
http://tinyurl.com/22d79d
Birmingham News 3 September 2007

**[Old Methodist Church] MUSEUM SETS SPECIAL EXHIBITS [Daphne]
http://tinyurl.com/yrdnex
Mobile Press-Register 2 September 2007


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

**Hawaii Superferry stars in TV documentary this week
Cable program will document building, sea trials of craft built in Mobile yard
http://tinyurl.com/2gksgs
Mobile Press-Register 4 September 2007

**Two tries, one escape from Nazis
http://tinyurl.com/ysohfp
Mobile Press-Register 4 September 2007

**Historic school to get fix-up
Renovations planned for Daphne Elementary School
http://tinyurl.com/2l9by2
Mobile Press-Register 4 September 2007

**Snoozy's bookstore at UAB marks 25 years
http://tinyurl.com/36qnc8
Birmingham News 4 September 2007

**Ancient transportation
Milkshake, hamburger meal led to friendship, rare artifact [dugout canoe]
http://tinyurl.com/3dbqn2
Decatur Daily 4 September 2007

**[World Heritage] Museum dedicates statue
http://tinyurl.com/3x2eut
Montgomery Advertiser 4 September 2007

**1864 September 4: Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama.
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**'A nobody' who helped beat Hitler
http://tinyurl.com/35fug9
Mobile Press-Register 3 September 2007

**Remember the Rough Riders
Decatur semi-pro football team had 66-2 record, broke racial barriers
http://tinyurl.com/2l49wa
Decatur Daily 3 September 2007

**Fort Payne to celebrate heritage with a `Boom'
http://tinyurl.com/254bss
Gadsden Times 3 September 2007

**Prattville's prosperity built on mill; some fear loss of history at cotton gin plant
http://tinyurl.com/yqbuhp
Montgomery Advertiser 3 September 2007

**World Heritage Museum dedicates statue
http://tinyurl.com/23l4xg
Montgomery Advertiser 3 September 2007

**Coon Dog Cemetery started small, but now a world-famous attraction
http://tinyurl.com/2okn8y
Flroence Times-Daily 3 September 2007

**American Indian history and culture focus of festivals, events
http://tinyurl.com/2qkbns
Florence Times-Daily 3 September 2007

**[UA] Students turn historic district into noisy slum
http://tinyurl.com/ytllpd
Tuscaloosa News 2 September 2007

**Terrible Memories: 'The sharks were killing them every day'
[Maurice Bell's WWII memories, in Ken Burns' PBS series "The War"]
http://tinyurl.com/2yuntp
Mobile Press-Register 2 September 2007

**Ex-curator, aunt deny artifact theft claim
Spanish-American War uniform at issue
http://tinyurl.com/ypeyv6
Birmingham News 2 September 2007

**Queen’s life was too grand for Tuscaloosa roots [Dinah Washington]
http://tinyurl.com/26vm98
Tuscaloosa News 2 September 2007

**Ozark newspaper a true 'Southern Star' [published for 140 years]
http://tinyurl.com/2948bc
Montgomery Advertiser 2 September 2007

**1963 September 2- Alabama Governor George Wallace blocks the integration of
        Tuskegee High School in Tuskegee, Alabama.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html 

**Charges against ex-curator ‘bogus’?
Attorney says former Wheeler home worker, aunt not guilty of theft
http://tinyurl.com/25noh7
Decatur Daily 1 September 2007

**Painting [by Mack Brindle] recalls '60s Trade Day [in Scottsboro]
http://tinyurl.com/2n2naz
Huntsville Times 1 September 2007

**Ovenlike August probably city's hottest month ever
http://tinyurl.com/337nqg
Birmingham News 1 September 2007

**Volunteer captures hospice agency's history in collage [Marshall Co.]
http://tinyurl.com/23xx45
Gadsden Times 1 September 2007

**b. 09-01-1904 - Johnny Mack Brown - Dothan, AL - d. 11-14-1974
actor: "Straight Arrow Pow Wow" [radio show]

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907.]
September 3: http://tinyurl.com/2oplsa 
September 2: http://tinyurl.com/yqsfkk 
September 1: http://tinyurl.com/2l3yg3
Mobile Press-Register

**UA students to excavate 600-year-old Moundville site
http://tinyurl.com/2b6qs5
Tuscaloosa News 31 August 2007

**Constitutional reform bid pushed
Pulitizer-winning columnist lauds effort, and those who have lead it
http://tinyurl.com/2nlopf
Birmingham News 31 August 2007

**Graves dating to before Civil War being relocated at Town Creek
http://tinyurl.com/yrtrpy
Montgomery Advertiser 31 August 2007

**1939 August 31: Jazz bassist Cleve Eaton is born in Fairfield.


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

**Fighting for his dream
Deontay Wilder heads into year of training for Olympics
http://tinyurl.com/2ol3vt
Tuscaloosa News 4 September 2007

**Crestwood becomes haven for artists
Neighborhood's canvas painted with professional, part-time artists
http://tinyurl.com/2wdamv
Birmingham News 3 September 2007

**Anniston man finds niche in making bow ties
http://tinyurl.com/2zgme6
Tuscaloosa News 3 September 2007

**100 artists, 12 city blocks make up Birmingham's annual Artwalk fest
http://tinyurl.com/yu428y
Montgomery Advertiser 2 September 2007

**There's a bounty of new regional books in stores [discusses several Alabama-related books]
http://tinyurl.com/2fhq7b
Montgomery Advertiser 2 September 2007

**Author [Joey Brackner] gives artful overview of state's folk pottery field
http://tinyurl.com/28jxhw
Montgomery Advertiser 2 September 2007

**Library group pushes countywide reading of 'Mockingbird'
http://tinyurl.com/2pqypv
Birmingham News 1 September 2007

**Owners' Nick knack keeps bar hopping for 25 years
http://tinyurl.com/36r8gz
Birmingham News 31 August 2007

**Tuscaloosa folk artist brings color, whimsy to local school
http://tinyurl.com/2don4c
Tuscaloosa News 31 August 2007


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

**Mildred Bernard Watson [obituary]
[co-author of "History of the Christian Churches in the Alabama Area", 1965]
http://tinyurl.com/38tz5f
Birmingham News 31 August 2007


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

**[no entries this issue]


================
**USEFUL LINKS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

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

**Alabama County Historical & Genealogical Societies & Records Repositories
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/hsglist.html

**Alabama Historical Association Marker Index
http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/histmarkindex.html

**Alabama History Resources on the Internet
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

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

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

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


===============================
**alabamahistory related links
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Listings since July 2002:

Alabama History & Culture in the News
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Listings prior to that date are in the Yahoo archives.

alabamahistory archives at Yahoo:
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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

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Subject: English on Woodrum, _"Everybody was Black down There"_

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Southern-Industry@... (June, 2007)

Robert H. Woodrum. _"Everybody Was Black down There:" Race and
Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields_. Politics and Culture in
the Twentieth-Century South Series. Athens and London: University of
Georgia Press, 2007. xiv + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography,
index. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-2879-9.

Reviewed for H-Southern-Industry by Beth English, Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Understanding Race, Class, and Industrial Change in Southern Coal Mining

In January 2006, a coal-mine explosion in Sago, West Virginia, trapped
thirteen miners. The progress of rescue operations riveted the nation
for days and ended with only one of the miners surviving. This was the
deadliest mine disaster in the United States since an explosion in late
September 2001 took the lives of thirteen miners in Brookwood, Alabama.
Although the rapid progression of domestic and international events in
the weeks following the terrorist attacks of September 11 pushed the
Brookwood tragedy to the margins of national media coverage, it remained
in the forefront of Robert Woodrum's mind as he wrote _"Everybody Was
Black down There:" Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama
Coalfields_. Woodrum opens and closes his narrative about Alabama's coal
mining industry from the New Deal to the close of the twentieth century
with personal insights about the Brookwood disaster. In the pages
between, he adeptly analyzes the intersections of race, class, labor
policy, technological change, and globalization in what has historically
been not only one of the most dangerous industries in the United States,
but also one of the most studied.

On the surface Woodrum tells a familiar story. Coal mining, a sick
industry in the 1920s that is further undermined by the Great
Depression, experiences a short-term revival during World War II before
a decline sets in at mid-century and gathers speed as the century ends.
Mines curtail output or close completely as oil, gas, diesel, and
hydroelectric power replace coal as a fuel source, while new mining
techniques and mechanization eliminate jobs. Critics of organized labor
heap blame on the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) for raising
wages, driving up costs with demands for stringent safety standards, and
including other provisions in union contracts that make Alabama coal
uncompetitive in regional and national markets. Global coal imports at
the end of the century squeeze the Alabama industry further. Pressure to
cut costs undermines safety standards, and fly-by-night mine operators
ignore wage, seniority, healthcare, and pension provisions in union
agreements. Miners all the while experience mass layoffs and struggle to
find other work, mining communities are economically devastated, UMWA
membership losses are substantial, and the union can do little for the
hard-hit miners. Alabama coal miners at the turn of the century, Woodrum
concludes, "found themselves caught up in a system of capital mobility
that allowed coal companies and consumers to look outside the region and
country to satisfy their demands" (p. 215).

By placing race at the center of his analysis, however, Woodrum adds a
new twist to the story of job loss, community abandonment, and
deindustrialization. Moreover, his focus on the decline of a southern
industry with a strong, militant union tradition contributes to an
emerging literature on the modern South that eschews the analytical
framework of regional exceptionalism, and instead highlights the ways in
which economic change and patterns of unionism in the region are more
akin to the Rust Belt North than the Sun Belt South. Drawing these
various approaches together, Woodrum argues convincingly that the UMWA's
attempts during the final decades of the twentieth century to maintain
jobs, benefits, and safety standards in the mines in the face of global
competition were rooted in choices, especially relating to race, made by
the union many years before. Woodrum bases his study on an impressive
array of manuscript and archival sources, company and union records,
government documents, interviews, and oral histories. What emerges is a
thought-provoking work worthy of a wide audience.

Woodrum explores an above ground/below ground split in Alabama's
coalfields, a divide he utilizes to underpin his fresh look at the old
debate about the extent and consequences of white working-class racism.
The biracial workforce of the southern coal mining industry in the early
twentieth century set it apart from other southern industries. In the
steel and iron industries, whites held most skilled and semi-skilled
jobs, and in textiles the workforce was nearly all white until late in
the twentieth century. The strong union presence in southern coalfields,
too, set the industry apart from other major industries in the region
that in some cases remained open shop strongholds through much of the
twentieth century. In Alabama's coalfields, black miners outnumbered
their white counterparts by the 1930s, and were integral in reviving the
UMWA, which had been moribund in the state since a failed 1921 strike.
While segregated mining camps were the norm above ground, black and
white miners produced coal in a cooperative underground milieu. Here,
commonalities of working underground in a dangerous occupation forged
bonds of solidarity among them, and often found an institutional outlet
in the biracial unionism of the UMWA.

Even though the men--black and white--who labored in the coalfields of
Alabama's Birmingham District were miners and had an identity as such,
how they defined themselves and their interests changed depending on
spatial, social, and temporal context. Identity formation and racial
cooperation, Woodrum argues, did not occur in a vacuum and did not
remain static over time. While the nature of the job may have muted some
racial differences and made everybody "black down there," this was not
necessarily so above ground in the mining camps, the union hall, or even
in the man-cars that transported the miners between the surface and
their underground workplaces. Here, the color line regularly remained
entrenched. Interracial cooperation and the UMWA's race-related policies
were therefore ultimately "circumscribed by the wider world of the
Birmingham District" (p. 6).

Woodrum presents a complex picture of race, class, and working-class
identity, wherein interracial solidarity among the rank and file and the
union's commitment to a progressive social agenda ebbed and flowed.
Through the Depression years of the 1930s and the early years of World
War II, UMWA leaders publicly voiced a commitment to using the union as
a vehicle for economic and social advancement for both its white and
black members. UMWA membership provided black miners with a mechanism to
address on-the-job grievances and arbitrary treatment by white
supervisors, as well as leadership opportunities within union locals and
in the national union bureaucracy. Still, in Alabama where black miners
outnumbered whites, the union pursued a "gradualist" approach to race
relations and did not directly confront white supremacy within its own
ranks or in the broader society. Whites typically served in the top
positions of local unions and voluntary separation remained the norm at
integrated union meetings. "You had a certain liberalism because we were
all accepted as union," recalled one black miner quoted by Woodrum, "not
accepted as union brothers, but as union members" (p. 114).

By the end of World War II and into the racially charged decades of the
1950s and 1960s, however, the UMWA remained largely silent on issues of
race both above and below ground. At a time when the social and
political terrains of the South began the most profound shifts since
Reconstruction, the UMWA's commitment to biracialism and its black
membership diminished significantly. Woodrum explores the thorny issue
of Ku Klux Klan membership as an example. Rather than risk a revolt
among its southern white rank and file by enforcing the UMWA's
prohibition against membership in the Klan, the union's national
leadership left it up to Alabama's leaders to determine policy on this
issue. For the union's white leaders, as well as many of its white rank
and file, race appears to have trumped class in the name of
institutional stability.

Below ground, the UMWA's commitment to the preservation of the union and
union jobs also trumped a commitment to its black members. As the demand
for coal dropped and the industry's postwar contraction became
increasingly acute in the five years following World War II, the union
focused its efforts not only on saving jobs, but also on creating a
pension and healthcare fund for its members. In 1950, the UMWA forged a
historic agreement with coal operators establishing such a fund, which
was financed by a tax levied on mine output. In return for de facto
control over the fund and in the hopes of boosting production so that
more coal could be taxed for the pension and healthcare fund, the UMUA
agreed to give a free hand to coal operators' efforts to modernize
operations, introduce new technologies, and make the industry more
competitive. But as Woodrum explains, in practice this translated to a
profound whitening of the mining workforce. By 1960, 70 percent of black
miners in Alabama had lost their jobs. Management retained its
prerogatives over hiring and promotion, and continued the traditional
practice of reserving for whites jobs requiring the operation of
machines. White rank-and-file coal miners for their part balked at UMWA
attempts to secure traditionally white-held positions for black members,
and the union acquiesced to the status quo. Within the context of
deindustrialization and potential job loss, race again mitigated a wider
class-based solidarity.

By the 1970s, when African Americans constituted only 11 percent of
Alabama's coal miners, the UMWA had become, like many "old" industrial
unions, conservative and member-centered. The long-term implications of
the UMWA's race-related policies, protectionist rhetoric, and decisions
to close ranks in order to protect the jobs of its mostly white rank and
file were thrown into high relief when the union attempted to boycott
the importation of coal from South Africa. The union found itself unable
to sustain meaningful inter-union cooperation with Mobile's longshoremen
whose job it was to unload the coal at port, or to forge coalitions with
activists opposed to issues ranging from apartheid, to environmental
degradation, to poor working conditions in the global mining industry.
Here Woodrum points to lessons to be learned about both the past and
present. His study is therefore not only an important read for those
seeking a better understanding of race and industrial change in the
past, but also for workers, unions, and community activists seeking a
way forward in the modern era of global production and trade.


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


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

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama
http://www.alabamafolklife.org/folkevents.html

**Take a walk downtown and see the art [Artwalk, Sept. 7-8]
Music and food will add to the ambiance
http://tinyurl.com/yohnqj
Birmingham News 7 September 2007


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

**BSC takes the field, at long last
After nearly 70 years, college once again playing football
http://tinyurl.com/yp2vjw
Birmingham News 7 September 2007

**Historic hotel to be refurbished
Developer, city set to commit to A.G. Gaston Hotel renovation plans
http://tinyurl.com/yq2prt
Birmingham News 7 September 2007

**Photo of Union troops razing Decatur
Extremely rare Civil War picture returns to Valley
http://tinyurl.com/2bewyz
Decatur Daily 7 September 2007

**Filmmaker [Ken Burns] to visit Mobile for war series
http://tinyurl.com/2c4p9q
Tuscaloosa News 7 September 2007

**Tuscaloosa Academy hits 40 years
http://tinyurl.com/2xhqgh
Tuscaloosa News 7 September 2007

**Inductees announced for Alabama Music Hall of Fame
[see Alabama Music Hall of Fame: http://www.alamhof.org ]
http://tinyurl.com/yrvkal
Tuscaloosa News 6 September 2007

**Ken Burns sets Mobile visit to recognize WWII vets in `The War'
[see http://www.pbs.org/thewar ]
http://tinyurl.com/2csflx
Tuscaloosa News 6 September 2007

**Birmingham, company reach deal on renovation of King motel
http://tinyurl.com/ywuoh6
Tuscaloosa News 6 September 2007

**Alabama Music Hall of Fame to open Montgomery's new convention center
http://tinyurl.com/3cqxkh
Montgomery Independent 6 September 2007

**Dale County High, others, partner with History Channel
Documentary will explore segregated schools era in Wiregrass
http://tinyurl.com/34npbc
Dothan Eagle 6 September 2007

**A tour through history, bright and dark [Ala. Dept of Archives & History]
http://tinyurl.com/23p5ya
Mobile Press-Register 6 September 2007

**[Filmmaker Ken] Burns explains why he picked Mobile [for new documentary]
http://tinyurl.com/2absxr
Mobile Press-Register 6 September 2007

**Artifacts stir memories of late governor's darkest moment [G. Wallace]
http://tinyurl.com/27p4zm
Mobile Press-Register 6 September 2007

**Thompson sets political world abuzz, but not in his Alabama birthplace of Sheffield; Native of Sheffield didn't stick around
http://tinyurl.com/2v78vv
Birmingham News 6 September 2007

**No fanfare now for 18th century war hero
Feted in [Alabama in] 1825, Lafayette's 250th barely noted today
http://tinyurl.com/2vezmn
Birmingham News 6 September 2007

**Miss Vulcan 1939
Winner reminisces about pageant that made her a queen
http://tinyurl.com/2sgu4u
Birmingham News 6 September 2007

**Studdard to help Calhoun [Community College] celebrate 60th
http://tinyurl.com/yslkeq
Decatur Daily 6 September 2007

**Oakville's 'Babe Ruth'
Family, friends say Taylor is Lawrence's best athlete
http://tinyurl.com/2d7hmh
Decatur Daily 6 September 2007

**Ceremony to mark site as part of trail
"... the designation of Tuscumbia Landing as a part of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail..."
http://tinyurl.com/yqv2sm
Florence Times-Daily 6 September 2007

**City [of Prattville] works to save history
http://tinyurl.com/35bkx7
Montgomery Advertiser 6 September 2007

**Stars fall on Montgomery: Music hall of fame comes to town
http://tinyurl.com/2wpssr
Montgomery Advertiser 6 September 2007

**The News' nameplate destined for [Birmingham-Jefferson] history museum
Birmingham News 6 September 2007 pB1

**Lawyer: Charges against curator are bogus
http://tinyurl.com/2p7va3
Moulton Advertiser 5 September 2007

**Old Alabama Town reflects Montgomery's olden times
http://tinyurl.com/2uuprs
Atlanta Journal-Constitution 5 September 2007

**Blazing the Trail [in Madison]
Marker dedicated to suffering of Indians forced to leave the area in 1830s
http://tinyurl.com/2nepwe
Huntsville Times 5 September 2007

**Tragedy followed two doctors with links to Clay House site [in Madison]
http://tinyurl.com/2kttn7
Huntsville Times 5 September 2007

**Gray drafted early
"Gray... is among the Mobilians featured in the new Ken Burns PBS documentary series "The War."
http://tinyurl.com/2ps3qq
Mobile Press-Register 5 September 2007

**It's tea time
Magazine uses Old Decatur homes as setting for progressive fall event
http://tinyurl.com/2bdvrq
Decatur Daily 5 September 2007

**Keeping the [Muscle Shoals] sound alive
Florence native [Donnie Fritts] among [Ala. Music] hall of fame inductees
http://tinyurl.com/2fxdnp
Florence Times-Daily 5 September 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
September 7: http://tinyurl.com/yvfjcw 
September 6: http://tinyurl.com/24jgod
September 5: http://tinyurl.com/2n4owp
Mobile Press-Register

**Tracking Down a Legend [John Henry]
'Steel drivin' man' died here while working between Oak and Coosa tunnels, some say; West Virginia also claims legend
Birmingham News 5 September 2006 pp 1SC, 3SC

**Stallworth Stories
[Columnist Clarke Stallworth remembers Birmingham Mayor Cooper Green]
Senior Living Volume 13, number 9, September 2007 p4



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

**Ordinance covers business artwork
http://tinyurl.com/3xofme
Huntsville Times 6 September 2007

**Birmingham chefs get raves for James Beard House dinner [in NYC]
http://tinyurl.com/3xrcv5
Birmingham News 5 September 2007

**Mobile native exposes sources of fictitious Wikipedia entries
http://tinyurl.com/26u8bl
Montgomery Advertiser 5 September 2007

**Alabama dishes up some good eatin'
http://tinyurl.com/38b4nt
Huntsville Times 2 September 2007


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

**Bataan Death March survivor [James F. Drake] dies at 86
http://tinyurl.com/yr8wnj
Mobile Press-Register 7 September 2007

**Artist’s personality matched his work [Jimmy Lee Sudduth]
http://tinyurl.com/yqbewq
Tuscaloosa News 6 September 2007

**Folk artist Sudduth, 97, dies
http://tinyurl.com/2wth7n
Montgomery Advertiser 6 September 2007

**Jimmy Lee Sudduth, folk art pioneer, dies at 97
http://tinyurl.com/2l24c5
Birmingham News 5 September 2007

**Fayette [folk] artist among masters
Jimmy Lee Sudduth | 1910-2007
http://tinyurl.com/22qcv5
Tuscaloosa News 5 September 2007


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

**Recent Books with Alabama Connections

The Bright Star Family with Niki Sepsas. _A Centennial Celebration of The Bright Star Restaurant_. University of Alabama Press, 2007
[A history of Bessemer's legendary eatery]

**Birmingham News building
[constructed in 1917, currently being demolished]
http://tinyurl.com/2kadhg
BhamWiki

**Donnell Group Publishing
[Publishes books related to AU sports and other history topics;
recent titles include a biography of George Petrie and a history of Troy]
http://www.thedonnellgroup.com/

**Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama - Localities
        http://www.CyndisList.com/al-local.htm ):
* New Links:            4
* Updated Links:        0
* Removed Links:        0
* Total Links:          2878

================
**USEFUL LINKS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

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

**Alabama County Historical & Genealogical Societies & Records Repositories
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/hsglist.html

**Alabama Historical Association Marker Index
http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/histmarkindex.html

**Alabama History Resources on the Internet
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

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

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

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


===============================
**alabamahistory related links
===============================

Listings since July 2002:

Alabama History & Culture in the News
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

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


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

Help needed for Jefferson County Circuit Court Loose Records Project

Posted by: "Melissa Hogan" genealogistinal@...   genealogistinal
Sat Sep 8, 2007 6:15 am (PST)

I have updated the BGS blog with a post asking for help to support the
ongoing Jefferson County Circuit Court Loose Records project.

You can find the post here:

http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/

I have also made a permanent page for the project here:

http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/circuit-court-loose-records-pro
ject/


The work of volunteers and donations are the only source of support for
this project. Please take a few minutes and read about the current
project.

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


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

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama
http://www.alabamafolklife.org/folkevents.html

**[Huntsville] Author [Carter Martin] to discuss rural vs. modern society [Sept. 11]
http://tinyurl.com/326eyk
Decatur Daily 9 September 2007

**Quick Trip: Collinsville [September 28-29]
Old and new 'made-from-scratch' quilts star in 2-day quilt walk
http://tinyurl.com/32oezh
Birmingham News 10 September 2007

**DISCOVER AUBURN: A LECTURE SERIES
"PHILIP HENRY GOSSE:  A NATURALIST'S VIEW OF DALLAS COUNTY, ALABAMA, IN
1838" by Dr. Gary Mullen, Professor of Entomology, Auburn University
WHEN:  3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 4
WHERE:  The Special Collections and Archives Department (GROUND FLOOR)
in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Auburn University.
Sponsored by:  the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall
Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal
Arts, and the Auburn University Bookstore. Refreshments will follow the
program.  Books will be available for purchase. For more information,
call (334) 844-4946.

**Centennial reunion weekend set Oct. 5-7 [for Marietta Johnson School in Fairhope]
http://tinyurl.com/2pjg6a
Mobile Press-Register 10 September 2007


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

**Book explores area's 'amazing' history in pictures
[Laura Flynn Tapia & Yoshie Lewis, _Images of America: Muscle Shoals_]

1957 September 9- Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth is mobbed when he attempts to
        enroll his daughters in a "white" Birmingham school.

1963 September 9- Alabama Governor George Wallace is served a federal
        injunction when he orders state police to bar African
        American students from enrolling in white schools.

1940 September 8- Willie Tyler is born in Red Level, Alabama.  He will
        become a well known ventriloquist along with his wooden
        partner, Lester.

1973 September 8- Hank Aaron sets the record for most Home Runs in 1
        league (709).
FROM: Today in Black History
 http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
September 10: http://tinyurl.com/335nln 
September 9: http://tinyurl.com/2n27cx 
September 8: http://tinyurl.com/2t98ge
Mobile Press-Register

**b. 05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama

**The Bright Star has food for thought in book debut
http://tinyurl.com/2czt7a
Birmingham News 7 September 2007

**Men's Hall of Fame will induct industrialists Blount, Eagan
Birmingham News 7 September 2007 p2H



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

**Author [Roger Reid] brings longleaf crusade to schools
http://tinyurl.com/2nng2c
Mobile Press-Register 10 September 2007

**[13th annual ARTrek] Event draws crowds to galleries
http://tinyurl.com/25ha93
Montgomery Advertiser 10 September 2007

**Ex-city resident wins spot in MTV Awards ad
A&M grad debuts tonight in Taco Bell commercial
http://tinyurl.com/39yxo9
Huntsville Times 9 September 2007

**Middle Ages come to Fort Gaines
http://tinyurl.com/392z95
Mobile Press-Register 9 September 2007

**'Longleaf' author [Roger Reid] set to visit schools
http://tinyurl.com/2onup6
Mobile Press-Register 9 September 2007

**Dreams of an artist
Holly Irwin's evocative paintings suggest nostalgia for less complicated time
http://tinyurl.com/2pxylt
Mobile Press-Register 9 September 2007

**Drawing big crowds at downtown art festival
http://tinyurl.com/32yvds
Birmingham News 8 September 2007

**New book tells legacy of Jimmy Carter
[Author is Frye Gaillard, Mobile native]
http://tinyurl.com/22q3xd
Tuscaloosa News 8 September 2007

**UA students make movies
http://tinyurl.com/2lhb2p
Tuscaloosa News 8 September 2007

**'Whatever Remembers Us' gives state poetry a magnificent showcase
http://tinyurl.com/3e3j43
Mobile Press-Register 8 September 2007

**McCarthy, [Harper] Lee Among Quills Winners
[Audio version of _To Kill a Mockingbird_]
http://tinyurl.com/3azpe8
Publishers Weely 7 September 2007


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

**Longtime local educator [Harold Lee] Gautney dies
http://tinyurl.com/2muj32
Gadsden Times 9 September 2007

**UA remembers [professor Ronald] Robel’s legacy at memorial service
http://tinyurl.com/2r9la9
Tuscaloosa News 9 September 2007


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

**Main Author: Atkinson, William
Title/Description: Birdseye Sketch of the Coal and Iron Fields of the State of Alabama Publication
Info: hand drawn map Date: 1872 Scale: 1:2,469,000
Original Source: Alabama Department of Archives and History
http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/index.html
UA Historical Maps Archive


================
**USEFUL LINKS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

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

**Alabama County Historical & Genealogical Societies & Records Repositories
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/hsglist.html

**Alabama Historical Association Marker Index
http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/histmarkindex.html

**Alabama History Resources on the Internet
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

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

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

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


===============================
**alabamahistory related links
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***************************************

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

NOTE:
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. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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


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

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama
http://www.alabamafolklife.org/folkevents.html

**Exhibit spans [photographic] career of local professor [Wayne Sides; until Oct. 7]
http://tinyurl.com/29xgnc
Florence Times-Daily 17 September 2007


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

**MUTILATION SEALS MYSTERY
Killer of woman in 1976 -- and even the victim's identity -- still unknown
http://tinyurl.com/28cfpx
Mobile Press-Register 17 September 2007

**At Sixteenth Street Baptist, hearts go out to bomb's victims, Jena Six
http://tinyurl.com/2caskm
Birmingham News 17 September 2007

**Man inspired by [Helen] Keller visits Ivy Green
http://tinyurl.com/ypnhk8
Florence Times-Daily 17 September 2007

**Looking Back [50 years, 25 years, etc.]
http://tinyurl.com/2apddv
Tuscaloosa News 17 September 2007

**1923 September 17: Hank Williams, country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin') is born.
Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
September 17: http://tinyurl.com/28jpfp
September 16: http://tinyurl.com/2a8fsv 
September 15: http://tinyurl.com/2895mg 
September 14: http://tinyurl.com/yqmo5g 
Mobile Press-Register

**Hunter Street Baptist looks back 50 years, then imagines future
Time capsule dedication set for Sept. 23 service
http://tinyurl.com/2am57g
Birmingham News 16 September 2007

**Remembering the [literary] past, celebrating the future
http://tinyurl.com/ypwty6
Montgomery Advertiser 16 September 2007|

**Dothan historian [Wendell Stepp] says former city jail holds significance
http://tinyurl.com/2gs7oh
Montgomery Advertiser 16 September 2007

**Fighter squadron for Montgomery has Tuskegee roots
http://tinyurl.com/24sts3
Decatur Daily 16 September 2007

**Lost in Space [review of new biography]
Wernher von Braun, scientist without a moral compass
http://tinyurl.com/2h2at2
Washington Post 16 September 2007

**Law already protects [Alabama] artifacts [letter]
http://tinyurl.com/255q4k
Montgomery Advertiser 16 September 2007

**Sixteenth Street Baptist wrapping up restoration
Church remembers bombing 44 years later
http://tinyurl.com/yq9kkz
Birmingham News 15 September 2007

**Alabama Senior Citizens Hall of Fame names 10 inductees
Eight other people will be recognized with special awards
http://tinyurl.com/yo9w4o
Birmingham News 15 September 2007

**1963 September 15- Four African American schoolgirls - Addie Collins, Denise
McNair, Carol Robertson and Cynthia Wesley - are killed
in a bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in
Birmingham, Alabama. It is an act of violence that
galvanizes the civil rights movement.

1964 September 15- Rev. K.L. Buford and Dr. Stanley Smith are elected to the
Tuskegee City Council and become the first African
American elected officials in Alabama in the twentieth century.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html 

**Overgrown [Garth] cemetery may be Decatur's hidden treasure
'Lost' graveyard seen as tourist draw
http://tinyurl.com/29p7tm
Decatur Daily 14 September 2007

**Historic Air Force squadron returns to Alabama
http://tinyurl.com/yrnslq
Montgomery Advertiser 14 September 2007

**b. 09-14-1922 - Frances Bergen - Birmingham, AL - d. 10-2-2006
actor: (Wife of Edgar, Mother of Candice) "New Edgar Bergen Hour" [radio shows]

**b. 06-24-1910 - Cootie Williams - Mobile, AL - d. 9-14-1985
jazz trumpet player: "Jubilee" [radio show]

**ALABAMA HISTORY
Auburn first state college to go coed
http://tinyurl.com/2ytc8a
Montgomery Advertiser 13 September 2007

**Who was Gen. Joe Wheeler?
http://tinyurl.com/2hx4fo
Athens News Courier 11 September 2007


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

**Loved ones say farewell as local boxer leaves for [Olympic] training
http://tinyurl.com/224ubd
Tuscaloosa News 17 September 2007

**Prattville artists shape remnants of water oak into mementos for city
http://tinyurl.com/2a97ao
Montgomery Advertiser 17 September 2007

**Murals [by Lauren Hughes] celebrate children's characters
http://tinyurl.com/2eckmo
Montgomery Advertiser 17 September 2007

**Exhibit comes to Tacoma Quilted in controversy [Gee's Bend quilts]
http://tinyurl.com/ytb35d
Tacoma [WA] News Tribune 16 September 2007


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

**Oil industry leader John E. Swearingen dead at 89
http://tinyurl.com/yp23gf
Tuscaloosa News 16 September 2007

**Curtain closes on life of sax man
Mike Long loved music scene in the ’70s, friends say
http://tinyurl.com/yukcjc
Tuscaloosa News 16 September 2007

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

**[no entries this issue]


================
**USEFUL LINKS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

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

**Alabama County Historical & Genealogical Societies & Records Repositories
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/hsglist.html

**Alabama Historical Association Marker Index
http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/histmarkindex.html

**Alabama History Resources on the Internet
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

**Project to Document the Birmingham District
[Includes the BhamWiki and the Magic City Flickr group]
http://tinyurl.com/yt49xj

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

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

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


===============================
**alabamahistory related links
===============================

Listings since July 2002:

Alabama History & Culture in the News
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

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

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

Forwarded from the alabamagenealogy@yahoogroups.com group...
ajwright@...


Alabama Archives updates Civil War and 1867 voter databases
Posted by: "Melissa Hogan" genealogistinal@...   genealogistinal
Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:47 am (PST)

The Alabama Department of Archives & History has updated two of their
major online databases: the Civil War Service Database and the 1867
Voter Registration Database.

I have posted additional details and links on the Birmingham
Genealogical Society blog:

http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/

Melissa

Fyi.. ajwright@...



-----Original Message-----
From: Alabama Booksmith <booksmith@...>
To: Alabama's Literati <GEORGE_SINGLETON@The_Booksmith.com>
Sent: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:11 pm
Subject: GEORGE SINGLETON IS COMING TO BIRMINGHAM
Hi Y'All-

One of the South's best loved writers will visit The Booksmith Friday.
That wild and crazy George Singleton will be here to talk about and sign
copies of his newest wacky title, Work Shirts for Madmen. This is not
only his funniest book yet, but much of the storyline is focused on
Birmingham's Sloss Furnace. Don't miss one of the most entertaining
events of the season.
Friday, September 21         6:00 PM
George Singleton
Work Shirts for Madmen
The Alabama Booksmith

If you cannot make it Friday, you may purchase signed copies on our
secure web site at
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NB12560112&.

We're looking forward to seeing you then.
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Homewood, AL 35209
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================
**COMING EVENTS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html    

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama
http://www.alabamafolklife.org/folkevents.html 

**LECTURE ON NATURALIST PHILIP H. GOSSE, OCTOBER 4
DISCOVER AUBURN:  A LECTURE SERIES
"PHILIP HENRY GOSSE:  A NATURALIST'S VIEW OF DALLAS COUNTY, ALABAMA, IN 1838"
by Dr. Gary Mullen, Professor of Entomology, Auburn University
WHEN:  3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 4
WHERE:  The Special Collections and Archives Department (Ground Floor)
in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Auburn University.
Sponsored by:  the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall
Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal
Arts, and the Auburn University Bookstore.
Refreshments will follow the program.  Books will be available for
purchase.  For more information, call (334) 844-4946

**Church to dedicate historical marker [Oct. 4]
[Cedar Plains Christian Church, Falkville]
http://tinyurl.com/2eo8nn
Decatur Daily 22 September 2007


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

**Restoring a piece of Athens history
Trip down Memory Lane
$250,000 grant helps gas station, College Inn return to 1940s heyday
http://tinyurl.com/2b29cq
Decatur Daily 24 September 2007

**[Rosa] Parks memorabilia stirs debate among collectors
http://tinyurl.com/3as8uf
Montgomery Advertiser 24 September 2007

**‘Furniture for Food’ at Old State Bank
http://tinyurl.com/3xvrna
Decatur Daily 23 September 2007

**Winner of the future: Time capsule stocks grow in value
http://tinyurl.com/3733gu
Mobile Press-Register 23 September 2007

**[Baldwin Co.] Historical society revival sought
http://tinyurl.com/2wbqad
Mobile Press-Register 23 September 2007

**Mayor to be inducted into [Ala. Senior Citizens] hall of fame
[Harold Chandler of Rogersville]
http://tinyurl.com/ywpu5y
Florence Times-Daily 23 September 2007

**30-year murder mystery solved [in Marshall County]
http://tinyurl.com/2xot6y
Montgomery Advertiser 23 September 2007

**History lesson highlights NASA
40 Marshall sites deserve landmark status, group told
http://tinyurl.com/2co2rr
Huntsville Times 22 September 2007

**Renovated Blach's site [built in 1890] set for new lease on life
http://tinyurl.com/23bar9
Birmingham News 22 September 2007

**Soldier [Glen Frazier] describes being POW in Japan during WWII
http://tinyurl.com/2lcgxb
Mobile Press-Register 22 September 2007

**Crew [of WWII USS Griswold] recalls Russellville native
http://tinyurl.com/2oeuh7
Florence Times-Daily 22 September 2007

**Nucor wins recognition for saving historic [Murphey House] site
http://tinyurl.com/3cnfpg
Decatur Daily 22 September 2007

**Prince, Doster slated for Alabama Newspaper Hall of Honor
http://tinyurl.com/397jea
Florence Times-Daily 22 September 2007

**Fitzgerald Museum hosts birthday party [for F. Scott's 111th]
http://tinyurl.com/2urubq
Montgomery Advertiser 22 September 2007

**1935 September 24- World Heavyweight Champion, Joe Louis, becomes the first
African American boxer to draw a million dollar gate.

1969 September 22- San Francisco Giant, Willie Mays, becomes the first player
        since Babe Ruth to hit 600 home runs.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
September 24: http://tinyurl.com/2bqbcx 
September 23: http://tinyurl.com/2vnjns 
September 22: http://tinyurl.com/35vd82
Mobile Press-Register

**Sprinkler floods [Mobile County Probate] court records room
http://tinyurl.com/2m5huz
Mobile Press-Register 19 September 2007


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

**Sparkman [H.S.] efforts seek to bring back literary magazine
http://tinyurl.com/yo6qqb
Huntsville Times 24 September 2007

**Stage Struck
Jeremy West carves out niche as Shakespearean actor
http://tinyurl.com/28omrb
Gadsden Times 24 September 2007

**Students focus cameras on Birmingham [for Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival]
http://tinyurl.com/26aqzx
Birmingham News 23 September 2007

**Sheriff [P.C. Jenkins, Wilcox County] was no stranger to hoodoo doctors
http://tinyurl.com/2ajlse
Tuscaloosa News 23 September 2007

**'Menapause' brings actress 'home'
Former UNA student [Jude Day] performs in musical
http://tinyurl.com/35fw25
Florence Times-Daily 23 September 2007



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

**Joseph Schreiber dies at 77
Choir director raised program to new level 
[obituary at http://tinyurl.com/2clk52 ]
http://tinyurl.com/2lljuy
Birmingham News 22 September 2007

================
**USEFUL LINKS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

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

**Alabama County Historical & Genealogical Societies & Records Repositories
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/hsglist.html

**Alabama Historical Association Marker Index
http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/histmarkindex.html

**Alabama History Resources on the Internet
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

**Project to Document the Birmingham District
[Includes the BhamWiki and the Magic City Flickr group]
http://tinyurl.com/yt49xj

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

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

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


===============================
**alabamahistory related links
===============================

Listings since July 2002:

Alabama History & Culture in the News
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

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

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

FYI...

The AlabamaMosaic project mentioned near the end of this email is at
http://www.alabamamosaic.org/index.php The home page description says:

"AlabamaMosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's
history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique
historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and
other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents and to
students, researchers, and the general public in other states and
countries."

Lots of goodies at this site! -- ajwright@...

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From: Network of Alabama Academic Libraries Discussion List
[mailto:NAAL-L@...] On Behalf Of Medina, Sue
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:33 AM
To: NAAL-L@...
Subject: Ken Burns' "The War", Mobile, and Eugene B. Sledge

Forwarded to the list by:

Sue Medina, Director
Network of Alabama Academic Libraries
email:  sue.medina@...
http://www.ache.state.al.us/NAAL

VISIT Alabama Mosaic at http://www.alabamamosaic.org

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 5:28 PM
Ken Burns' documentary on World War II, "The War", started airing on PBS
last night.  The series has a strong Alabama connection: one of the four
cities profiled in the documentary is Mobile.  Burns drew heavily on the
holdings of the University of South Alabama Archives for the Mobile
portions of the documentary.  He also interviewed witnesses from Mobile
and other towns in Alabama.

Check out the documentary's Web site at http://www.pbs.org/thewar/ .
 It's gratifying to see how many of the Mobile images credit the USA
archives.  Congratulations to Carol Ellis and Vera Finley at USA, and
thanks to them for making images from their collection available through
AlabamaMosaic.

One Mobile native who couldn't be interviewed figures prominently later
in the documentary:  Eugene B. Sledge was born and raised in Mobile and
served with the First Marine Division on Peleliu and Okinawa.  After the
war, Sledge earned degrees in biology at Auburn University and the
University of Florida and taught for many years at the University of
Montevallo.  In 1981, he published "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and
Okinawa", a memoir of his wartime experiences.  Literary scholar Paul
Fussell, himself a WWII combat veteran, has called Sledge's account "one
of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war."  Burns' documentary uses
extensive passages from Sledge's memoir, read by the actor Josh Lucas.

Dr. Sledge donated his papers to the Auburn University Special
Collections & Archives Department a few years before his death in 2001.
 We've started digitizing selected items from the collection and are
making them available at:

http://diglib.auburn.edu/collections/ebsledge/

We've added the Sledge collection to AlabamaMosaic, and will be sure to
add other Alabama-related collections to the repository as we bring them
online.

Aaron Trehub
Director of Library Technology
Auburn University Libraries
231 Mell Street, RBD Library
Auburn, AL 36849-5606
Phone: (334) 844-1716
E-mail: trehuaj@...
URL: http://lib.auburn.edu/

FYI... ajwright@...


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LECTURE ON NATURALIST PHILIP H. GOSSE OCTOBER 4

    Please join us for

DISCOVER AUBURN:  A LECTURE SERIES

"PHILIP HENRY GOSSE:  A NATURALIST'S VIEW OF DALLAS COUNTY, ALABAMA, IN
1838"

by Dr. Gary Mullen, Professor of Entomology, Auburn University

WHEN:  3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 4

WHERE:  The Special Collections and Archives Department (Ground Floor)
in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Auburn University

Sponsored by:  the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall
Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal
Arts, and the Auburn University Bookstore.

Refreshments will follow the program.  Books will be available for
purchase.  For more information, call (334) 844-4946.


OCTOBER 10 PROGRAM HONORS WORLD WAR II VET EUGENE B. SLEDGE

    On October 10 at 3 p.m., the Auburn University Libraries will host
the kick-off program for a new digital collection honoring World War II
veteran Eugene B. Sledge

( http://diglib.auburn.edu/collections/ebsledge/ ).

  The program and the reception that follows will be held in Special
Collections and Archives, located on the GROUND FLOOR of the Ralph Brown
Draughon Library.  The late Dr. Sledge was featured prominently in Ken
Burns* recent Public Broadcasting Service documentary, *The War.*

    Sledge*s classic war memoir, WITH THE OLD BREED AT PELELIU AND
OKINAWA, recounts his experiences with the First Marine Division in the
Pacific Theater.  Following the war, he earned B. S. and M. S. degrees
at Auburn University and a Ph.D. at the University of Florida.  He
subsequently taught biology at the University of Montevallo.  His wife,
Mrs. Jeanne Sledge, still resides in Montevallo.  Their two sons, Henry
and John, both graduated from Auburn.

    The digital collection is based upon the Eugene B. Sledge papers,
which he and his family donated to the Auburn University Libraries and
which are housed Special Collections and Archives.  The digital
collection covers Sledge*s boyhood in Mobile, Alabama, his service in
the Marine Corps during and after World War II, and his post-war career.
  The Systems Department of the Auburn University Libraries prepared the
digital collection and plans to expand it.

    In addition to a preview of the digital collection, the program will
feature the World War II recollections of Jack Simms, another Auburn
graduate and Marine veteran of the Pacific Theater.  Simms*
recollections will focus on the Battle of Iwo Jima, in which he
participated.  Following the war, Simms served as head of Auburn
University*s journalism department.

    This event is sponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the
Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the
College of Liberal Arts, and the Auburn University Bookstore, which will
have copies of WITH THE OLD BREED on sale at the event.  All are
welcome

    See the "What's New" link ( http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/ ) as
of September 27 for more information.

Tim Dodge
What's New Web Manager and Whatsnew-L Listserv








Tim Dodge
Reference Dept.
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell St.
Auburn University, AL  36849-5606

Tel.  (334) 844-1729
Fax:  (334) 844-4461
E-mail:  dodgeti@...