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#3049 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Mon Jun 2, 2008 4:55 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 30 May-2 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

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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


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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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

**"Nobody but the People: The Life and Times of Alabama's Youngest Governor"
Author Talk and Book Signing
Tuesday, June 3, 6:30 p.m.
Birmingham Public Library, downtown
Hear former Alabama governor John Patterson and biographer Warren Trest
speak on the first authorized biography of Patterson, the governor's
life and career and a turbulent time in Alabama's history.

**CIA pilot to be honored [June 5-6; Jack Weeks, 1955 UA graduate who died in 1968]
http://tinyurl.com/6m236t
Mobile Press-Register 2 June 2008

**‘Art in the Garden’ all about Alabama artists [June 7-8, Aldridge Gardens, Hoover]
http://tinyurl.com/6edtgm
Tuscaloosa News 2 June 2008

**City [of Rogersville] celebrates 150-year heritage [through June 7]
http://tinyurl.com/6cuv3z
Florence Times-Daily 31 May 2008

**[Alabama] Author to sign book for teens [June 7]
Jamie Dodson will sign copies of his new historical fiction novel for teens, "Flying Boats & Spies, A Nick Grant Adventure," Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Coffee Tree Books and Brew, 7900 Bailey Cove Road. "The story is about building Pan American Airways flying boat bases across the Pacific during a vicious cold war that existed between Japan and America," Dodson said. "The animosity between the two nations was very similar to the recent cold war between the former Soviet Union and the United States. However, it's less well known." The story opens in March 1935. Dodson, an intelligence officer with Redstone Arsenal's Aviation and Missiles Lab, started writing novels in 2001. This is his first published work. He has more than 25 years of experience in counterintelligence, special intelligence, signals intelligence and intelligence analysis for the U.S. military. He's served with Special Operations, Army Aviation, Airborne Infantry and Military Police.
Huntsville Times 1 June 2008


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**HISTORY
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**Alabama taking official state holiday for Jefferson Davis
http://tinyurl.com/4qnw69
Tuscaloosa News 2 June 2008

**Looking Back [50, 25, etc., years ago this week]
http://tinyurl.com/3hsgy3
Tuscaloosa News 2 June 2008

**The promise of Steel [for the Black Belt; includes some history]
http://tinyurl.com/3horm7
Tuscaloosa News 2 June 2008

**Montgomery Co.] Archives will change address
http://tinyurl.com/45qspc
Montgomery Advertiser 2 June 2008

**Hundreds mark storyteller's 90th [Kathryn Tucker Windham]
http://tinyurl.com/4g8hpu
Montgomery Advertiser 2 June 2008

**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 2: http://tinyurl.com/57qtan
Mobile Press-Register

**Local] WWII vets honor comrades
http://tinyurl.com/683lff
Huntsville Times 1 June 2008

**Study shows history's hurricanes would do far more damage today [in Florida and Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/5qr7v4
Mobile Press-Register 1 June 2008

**Former Auburn linebacker great Gregg Carr goes into ASHOF
http://tinyurl.com/6or9u4
Birmingham News 1 June 2008

**Northport’s latest plan [for historic district] has a long, dusty lineage
Planners see a ray of hope: clear steps to fixing riverfront
http://tinyurl.com/6euj9m
Tuscaloosa News 1 June 2008

**Memorial marks centennial [at Oakwood Cemetery]
"It's been a century since some of the "boys in blue" last were remembered in a ceremony to dedicate a mon­ument in Montgomery. De­scendants of Union troops who served during the Civil War gathered at that monu­ment Saturday to honor them again."
http://tinyurl.com/6lcvbj
Montgomery Advertiser 1 June 2008

**b. 06-27-1880 - Helen Keller - Tuscumbia, AL - d. 6-1-1968 deaf and blind lecturer: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Meet the Press" [radio shows] old.time.radio Digest V2008 #139 http://lists.oldradio.net/

**Hoover fire chief [Tom] Bradley saluted for 60-year career
Veteran thankful for health [started with Bessemer FD in 1948]
http://tinyurl.com/5h7zky
Birmingham News 31 May 2008

**Ensley building named to endangered list may get new life
Apartments in plans [for Ramsay-McCormack Tower]
http://tinyurl.com/5grqbf
Birmigham News 31 May 2008

**Don McNeal goes into ASHOF for Saturday
http://tinyurl.com/5zv365
Birmingham News 31 May 2008

**Century-old Birmingham, Alabama printing company to close [Dewberry Engraving]
http://tinyurl.com/66sba7
Birmingham News 31 May 2008

**History on the move
Two houses in historic district being moved a block to preserve them
http://tinyurl.com/68x9qj
Tuscaloosa News 31 May 2008

**11 [Alabama] properties put on endangered list
http://tinyurl.com/5huxzu
Montgomery Advertiser 31 May 2008

**May 31: Joe Namath turns 65.

**Spy pilot, Jack Weeks, to be honored [UA graduate died in 1968]
http://tinyurl.com/4ldt8p
Mobile Press-Register blog 30 May 2008

**USA Archives publishes trove of Mobile images
http://tinyurl.com/6fzpv5
Mobile Press-Register 25 May 2008


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**CULTURE
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**Huntsville Museum of Art moves into a new era with 'extraordinary' acquisition of works by American women
http://tinyurl.com/5spwaw
Huntsville Times 1 June 2008

**BEN WINDHAM: Heat, play reflect ambience
Southern Lights [a visit to Monroeville to see "To Kill a Mockingbird" production]
http://tinyurl.com/6rdnvw
Tuscaloosa News 1 June 2008


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**DEATHS
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**Ernst Stuhlinger'brilliant scientist,devoted to family'
http://tinyurl.com/5gkpoa
Huntsville Times 1 June 2008

**Post-Herald's colorful character [Charlie Blair, died April 15]
http://tinyurl.com/5w9pp4
Birmingham News 1 June 2008


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

**Category Summary (Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama
        http://www.CyndisList.com/al.htm ):
* New Links:            1
* Updated Links:        1
* Removed Links:        0
* Total Links:          3338



================
**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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


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#3050 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Tue Jun 3, 2008 4:33 pm
Subject: 1921 Auburn Glomerata sells for $406 		anesuab2001
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[mailto:NAAL-L@...] On Behalf Of Medina, Sue
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:25 AM
To: NAAL-L@...
Subject: 1921 Auuburn Glomerata for sale $406

From the Chronicle on Higher Education issue dated June 6, 2008




Hang onto that yearbook. If one of your classmates becomes famous, it
may be worth something someday. The online bookseller AbeBooks recently
compiled a list of the most expensive yearbooks ever sold on its site.
Here are the top 10:

1. 1921 Ole Miss Yearbook  - $4,500
Contains the poem "Nocturne" and some drawings by William Faulkner, who
had just returned as a student at the University of Mississippi after
World War I.

2. 1937 Lincolnian  - $750
A high-school yearbook inscribed by Frank Herbert, author of Dune.

3. The Sequoian  - $650
The baseball legend Jackie Robinson is the star of this yearbook from
John Muir Technical High School.

4. 1940 Harvard Freshman Red Book  - $500
President John F. Kennedy, the folk singer Pete Seeger, and the Broadway
lyricist Alan Jay Lerner all appear.

5. A Collection of the Potter Shield, 10 various volumes, 1916-1924  -
$475
Yearbooks from the Potter School, a San Francisco secondary school.

6. 1921 Glomerata  - $406
William Spratling, a renowned silversmith, was art editor of this Auburn
University yearbook.

7. 1923 Red and Black  - $375
From the Haines Institute, a Georgia school for African-American youths.

8. 1920 Bitterroot  - $300
A high-school yearbook with a poem by the author Norman Maclean.

9. 1895 Corks and Curls  - $300
This University of Virginia annual contains a previously unpublished
poem, "My Soul," by Edgar Allan Poe.

10. 1924 Camplog  - $300
The yearbook of the New York State College of Forestry's summer camp.


Sue O. Medina, Ph.D.
Director
Network of Alabama Academic Libraries
c/o Alabama Commission on Higher Education
US Postal Service:P. O. Box 302000
                           Montgomery, Alabama 36130-2000
Ground Shipping:  100 North Union Street
                            Montgomery, Alabama 36104
email:  sue.medina@...
phone;  334-242-2211
fax:  334-242-0270
NAAL office at ACHE:  http://www.ache.state.al.us/NAAL
Alabama history database:   http://www.alabamamosaic.org
Alabama Digital Preservation Network (archive for digital content)
http://adpn.org

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#3051 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Tue Jun 3, 2008 7:42 pm
Subject: ADAH News June 2008 		anesuab2001
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ADAHLogoAlabama Department of Archives and History

  News    

 

ADAH Updates!

June 2008 

 

 

Upcoming Events

 

Tips Tools and Treasures Workshops

 

 

  

 

July 12

Maps at ADAH

presented by Cynthia Luckie

 

 

August 9

An Introduction to Alabama Local Government Records

Tom Turley 

 

  

 

  ~         

 

 

 

ArchiTreats:  Food for Thought

 

 

July 10

Poor Man's Provence

presented by 

Rheta Grimsley Johnson 

 

 

July 17

Lee's Alabama Boys at the Battle of Chancellorsville

presented by           

Ben H. Severance 

 

 

 ~

 

Old Fashioned Family Game Day

July 12

 

~

 

World War I

Symposium

July 25-26 

 

 

 

 

Join Our Mailing List

 

We hope you enjoyed the first trial ADAH electronic newsletter.

Let us know how you like it! 

 

      You have been selected to review the trial issues of the ADAH electronic newsletter and events updates. In addition to the newsletter, you will receive announcements, notices, invitations, and events reminders during the next few weeks.  Please give us your feedback or, if you do not wish to receive future e-mails unsubscribe at the bottom of the page.

 

TipsToolsLogo SECOND SATURDAY               WORKSHOPS

 

 Tips on Using Ancestry.com

 June 14 

 

 

     Do you know when your grandparents were married?  Did your great-great-grandfathers fight in the Civil War?  Did you know that the world's largest on-line source for family history information is available for use free of charge at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH)?  Come join us Saturday morning, June 14, at 10:00 at ADAH to learn more about Ancestry.com.  Archivist Nancy Dupree will provide tips on using the web site Ancestry.com and show how it complements the research collections available at the Archives. 
      Tips, Tools, and Treasures is a series of workshops designed to introduce researchers to the vast array of research materials available at ADAH, and to familiarize them with department services.  Archives staff will present these programs the second Saturday of each month in 2008 from 10:00 - 11:00 A.M.  The programs are free and do not require pre-registration.  All programs will take place at ADAH.   

 

 ADAHLogo 

 

Alabama, One Big Front Porch      

 

Storyteller     

  Kathryn Tucker Windham

June 19 

 

Join the Alabama Department of Archives and History on June 19 to celebrate beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham's 90th birthday. Starting at 10:00, visitors can view Kathryn: The Story of a Teller, a documentary film by Norton Dill. At noon audience members will enjoy tea cakes and lemonade, while Kathryn Tucker Windham shares highlights from her recently reissued book, Alabama, One Big Front Porch. Mrs. Windham will sign books after her talk, with books available for purchase from NewSouth Books.

"Alabama is like one big front porch where folks gather on summer nights to tell tales and to talk family," Mrs. Windham has said. Born and raised in Thomasville, Alabama, she has lived in Selma for 53 years. She began her writing career as one of the first women daily newspaper reporters in Alabama. One of America's best-loved storytellers, she has written more than two dozen successful books, including seven collections of "Jeffrey" ghost stories. She has also written, produced, and acted in a one-woman play, narrated several television documentaries, and is one of the most popular performers at national storytelling festivals. National and international journalists visiting Alabama regularly search out Mrs. Windham for interviews and she has been a featured commentator on National Public Radio and Alabama Public Radio. Her most recent books, Ernest's Gift and Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories, were released by NewSouth Books in 2004.
This ArchiTreats presentation is one in a series of monthly third-Thursday free lectures presented by the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The public is invited to bring a sack lunch and enjoy a bit of Alabama history. Coffee, tea, lemonade, and tea cakes will be provided by the Friends of the Alabama Archives.

 

PineBurrQMay - June               Activity in the Hands-On Gallery

Pine Burr Quilt    

       Visit the Alabama Department of Archives and History's Hands-On Gallery during the months of May and June to make a paper and fabric Pine Burr Quilt circle.  Using paper, glue, and fabric triangles, children can construct a quilt circle similar to that of the Pine Burr Quilt.
      The Pine Burr Quilt was designated as Alabama's State Quilt in 1997 and was designed by Loretta Pettway Bennet. Loretta's mother, Qunnie Pettway, a Gee's Bend Quilter, taught her how to make the Pine Burr Quilt pattern. Mrs. Bennet donated her quilt to the Alabama Department of Archives and History where it is now on display in the Sampler Gallery.
      This activity is part of the Alabama Department of Archives and History's Hands-On Gallery's new bi-monthly activity series.  New activities will be featured in the Hands-On Gallery starting on each odd numbered month (May, July, September, November, January, March). For more information call (334) 353-4702.

 

 


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#3052 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Wed Jun 4, 2008 5:24 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 29 May-4 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

AND NOW THE NEWS...

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

http://news.google.com/

http://www.topix.net/

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

================


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

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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

**Will Rogers Festival kicks off Thursday in Guntersville [June 5]
“Will Rogers, a writer, actor, humorist and cowboy, was the great-grandson of Guntersville's founder, John Gunter and his wife, Ghenoheli, daughter of a Cherokee Indian chief.”
http://tinyurl.com/5nkhbo
Huntsville Times 3 June 2008

**Walking tours highlight Montevallo history [each Saturday in June]
http://tinyurl.com/4qxc3n
Shelby County Reporter 3 June 2008

**Roundtable Technology Exchange—July 31, ADAH, Montgomery
The Roundtable Technology Exchange will convene Alabama’s cultural, historical, art and educational organizations to discuss our individual and shared tech opportunities and challenges. It will also feature a free seminar on e-marketing and communications by Patron Technology, Inc., provider of professional e-marketing for arts, nonprofits and creative businesses. http://media.cla.auburn.edu/cah/techexchange/index.cfm

**"Imprinting the South: Works on Paper from the Collection of Lynn Barstis Williams and Stephen J. Goldfarb" will be on display at Auburn University's Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art through Aug. 23. The exhibition is part of the museum's continuing "Auburn Collects" series, featuring works on paper that reflect the culture, economy and landscape of the South.  Birmingham News 4 June 2008

**The University of North Alabama has announced the dates for its 2009 George Lindsey Film Festival. The festival will be held March 5-8 and will feature works by students, faculty and professional filmmakers. Information: Cynthia Burkhead, 256-765-4790 or caburkhead@... Birmingham News 4 June 2008


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

**Bessemer council OKs $18,500 to meet grant or renovation of Bessemer Hall of History
http://tinyurl.com/5xu4sy
Birmingham News 4 June 2008

**Deep digging turns up Sugars Turner's connection to Wall-Triana
http://tinyurl.com/4ztzvx
Huntsville Times 4 June 2008

**Century-old steam power source may end in Birmingham
Century-old source called inefficient
http://tinyurl.com/69cm5e
Birmingham News 4 June 2008

**A list of ASWA small college athletes of the year [1983-2007]
http://tinyurl.com/6g8oyd
Tuscaloosa News 4 June 2008

**Southern White House reopens to public
[First White House of the Confederacy]
http://tinyurl.com/5d9b9l
Montgomery Advertiser 4 June 2008

**1972 June 4- [Ala. native] Angela Davis is acquitted by 11 whites and one Mexican American of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy
charges brought in connection with a 1970 courthouse shoot-out in San Rafael, California.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**After 80 years, [Camp] Westmoreland still making history
http://tinyurl.com/6d4adm
Florence Times-Daily 3June 2008

**Jeffco council endorses Ensley tower restoration
http://tinyurl.com/5535xz
Birmingham News 3 June 2008

**Birmingham, Alabama native [Jack Weeks] who flew CIA spyplanes to be honored in Mobile
http://tinyurl.com/6sxm2a
Birmingham News 3 June 2008

**Comprehensive history of Birmingham and Jefferson County captured in book by Jim Bennett
http://tinyurl.com/4qvzto
Birmingham News 3 June 2008

**Take a city stroll, learn a bit of history
http://tinyurl.com/3m83n9
Florence Times-Daily 3 June 2008

**Group celebrates birth of Jefferson Davis
http://tinyurl.com/5zbb4j
Montgomery Advertiser 3 June 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY: First POWs arrived at Aliceville in 1943
http://tinyurl.com/66gq2c
Montgomery Advertiser 3 June 2008

**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 4: http://tinyurl.com/3mvtno
June 3: http://tinyurl.com/56zxof [check out this one for the story of the “Hoodoo”]
Mobile Press-Register

**Ties that bind
New biography traces the life and times of Alabama’s youngest governor [John Patterson]
http://tinyurl.com/5gylm3
Birmingham Weekly 29 May 2008


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

**Bob Jones [H.S.] showcases fine arts bounty in shining event
http://tinyurl.com/4e6zl5
Huntsville Times 4 June 2008

**Foley room-box artist [Ann Davis] enjoys all-around beauty of South
http://tinyurl.com/4bh3u3
Mobile Press-Register 4 June 2008

**[UNA] Theater [Dept.] hopes to return to glory days of the '70s
http://tinyurl.com/5zd7h8
Florence Times-Daily 4 June 2008

**Helfin barbecue house [Marie’s] is community staple
http://tinyurl.com/5fk4ea
Tuscaloosa News 4 June 2008

**"Language, Power, and Identity in the Lament Psalms of the Individual," a book by Amy Cottrill, assistant professor of religion at Birmingham-Southern College, was recently published by T&T Clark International. Birmingham News 4 June 2008

**"When they move away, I take it personally. When they don't get the jobs, I get upset."
[Jewish community in Birmingham]
http://tinyurl.com/5gdwr7
Birmingham News 3 June 2008

**Crew shoots 'Final Destination 4' scene at raceway
http://tinyurl.com/4wnng2
Mobile Press-Register blog 2 June 2008

**[Kathryn Tucker] Windham celebrates 90 years
http://tinyurl.com/524l5v
Selma Times-Journal 1 June 2008



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

**Former Alabama Republican Party Executive Director Tim Baer dies at the age of 57
http://tinyurl.com/5gw7nh
Birmingham News 3 June 2008

**Hall Street Baptist pastor [Frank Ray] Johnson dies
http://tinyurl.com/5g673v
Montgomery Advertiser 3 June 2008



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

**Helen Keller, 87, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0627.html
New York Times 2 June 1968

**Satchel Paige, Black Pitching Star, Is Dead at 75
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0707.html
New York Times 9 June 1982

**Alabama - 35 new historical articles (785 total) at Newspaper Abstracts
http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=314

**Forthcoming Book with Alabama Connection

Owen, Randy. Born Country: My Life in Alabama: How Faith, Family, and Music Brought Me Home. HarperOne, November 2008


================
**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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


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#3053 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Thu Jun 5, 2008 7:23 pm
Subject: UA Press catalog fall/winter 2008 		anesuab2001
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From: Minder, Rebecca [mailto:rminder@...]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:18 PM
To: Minder, Rebecca
Subject: University of Alabama Press catalog

 

The University of Alabama Press is proud to present its Fall/Winter 2008 catalog of new titles. You can access a PDF of the catalog using the below link. If you would prefer a printed copy, please reply to this email and provide your shipping address.

 

http://uapress.ua.edu/UACatalog_FW2008.pdf

 

 

Rebecca Todd Minder

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The University of Alabama Press

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#3054 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Fri Jun 6, 2008 2:23 pm
Subject: FW: New Bronze Map at Archives 		anesuab2001
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From: Palmer, Mark [mailto:Mark.Palmer@...]
Sent: Fri 6/6/2008 8:52 AM
To: Amos J Wright
Subject: New Bronze Map at Archives

A recent addition to the grounds of the Alabama Department of Archives and History is the Bronze Map of Alabama at the Washington Street entrance to the Archives. Gregg LeFevre and Jennifer Andrews, with the assistance of Jose Marti and Bill Muller, and Mary Walton Upchurch, Landscape Architect, Inc., developed the final presentation of the Bronze Map. Images on the map were chosen by ADAH staff from a list of images suggested by Alabamians from across the state. The map was commissioned by an anonymous donor in memory of Isidor Weil. It was dedicated December 14, 2006.

Web visitors may view the map and the eighty-five images depicted on it at the Archives web site at http://www.archives.alabama.gov/map/index.html.

 

 

Mark A. Palmer

Alabama Department of Archives and History

624 Washington Avenue

Montgomery, AL 36130

 


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#3055 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Fri Jun 6, 2008 2:25 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 3-6 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

AND NOW THE NEWS...

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

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


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**COMING EVENTS

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

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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

**[Rick] Bragg to sign books Wednesday [June 11]
http://tinyurl.com/5jtfgg
Mobile Press-Register 5 June 2008


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

**Tannehill dig finds clues to antebellum life of area's slaves
http://tinyurl.com/687t4e
Tuscaloosa News 6 June 2008

**Space Camp to honor 6 in Hall of Fame
http://tinyurl.com/6ju454
Huntsville Times 6 June 2008

**Veteran [Ambrose Underwood]: 'Better believe I was scared'
http://tinyurl.com/5h2vfu
Florence Times-Daily 6 June 2008

**ASWA Professional Athletes of the Year [1974-2007]
http://tinyurl.com/69rpbm
Tuscaloosa News 6 June 2008

**Preserve [local] jewels of history [editorial]
http://tinyurl.com/4jbcnv
Mobile Press-Register 6 June 2008

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 6: http://tinyurl.com/5gpfep
Mobile Press-Register

**City seeking Quinlan Castle site proposals
Long-vacant landmark built in 1927
http://tinyurl.com/689yyb
Birmingham News 5 June 2008

**Landscaping begins at the historic Depot
http://tinyurl.com/6kjg43
Leeds News 5 June 2008

**A mindset that needs preserving [editorial]
http://tinyurl.com/5hv8y6
Anniston Star 5 June 2008

**Hall of Fame begins at DHS [Daphne H.S.]
Nominations being accepted for any student who graduated between 1990 and 1999
http://tinyurl.com/69jwfj
Mobile Press-Register 5 June 2008

**Group aims to save birthplace of 'Big Jim' [Folsom]
http://tinyurl.com/56qm8y
Montgomery Advertiser 5 June 2008 

**Tuskegee Airman [Roscoe Brown, Jr.] visits unit
http://tinyurl.com/65wv2o
Montgomery Advertiser 5 June 2008

**CIA PILOT [Jack Weeks] HONORED
http://tinyurl.com/6qjh9n
Mobile Press-Register 5 June 2008

**After 40 years, hero honored [CIA pilot Jack W. Weeks]
http://tinyurl.com/6cx8ll
Tuscaloosa News 5 June 2008

**1863 June 5: CSS "Alabama" captures the "Tailsman" in the Mid Atlantic.
FROM: Poor Gabriel’s Almanac poorgabriel@...

**This Week In [local] History: June 4, 2008 [5 to 30 years ago]
http://tinyurl.com/6nw2kh
North Jefferson News 4 June 2008

**["Big" Jim] Folsom's birth place in danger
http://tinyurl.com/3wrbxr
WZTV Nashville 4 June 2008

**Safe return for Madoc plaque [in Mobile]
http://tinyurl.com/4llm3t
North Wales Pioneer 3 June 2008


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**CULTURE
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**Community Foundation gift bag grants $1.9 million
[Several historical and cultural groups are among recipients]
http://tinyurl.com/5kcnx8
Birmingham News 5 June 2008

**SportsSouth documentary offers candid look at Crimson Tide
http://tinyurl.com/58g2mf
Birmingham News 4 June 2008


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**DEATHS
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**Jim Hayes, former senior adviser to Don Siegelman, dies
http://tinyurl.com/55t6wn
Birmingham News blog 6 June 2008

**Former chief [of Sheffield Warren Aycock] remembered for treating people fairly
http://tinyurl.com/6k3yoe
Florence Times-Daily 6 June 2008

**State's first female officer, motorcycle cop, dies at 81 [Mary Nell Rawlings]
http://tinyurl.com/5cu6rk
Florence Times-Daily 5 June 2008

**Willie Scoggins, Jr. [obituary for long-time coach at Ramsay H.S.]
http://tinyurl.com/6goyj2
Birmingham News 5 June 2008


**Alan R. Thomas [obituary; served 3 years as President of Alabama Folk Life Assoc.]
http://tinyurl.com/6grmuv
Birmingham News 5 June 2008

**Former [Sheffield] Police Chief [Warren] Aycock dies
http://tinyurl.com/6ocpmb
Florence Times-Daily 5 June 2008

**Death [of Bo Roberts] stuns music lovers
Popular keyboardist succumbs to illness at 39, but cause reamins a mystery
http://tinyurl.com/6p53k9
Mobile Press-Register 5 June 2008


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

**Sun Ra Arkive Blog [Jazz musician born in Birmingham as Herman Blount]
http://sunraarkive.blogspot.com/

**Looking back to early days of Alabama City [many photos]
Gadsden Messenger 7 May 2008 p6A

**East Gadsden History Part I
Gadsden Messenger 12 March 2008 pp9A, 14A

**East Gadsden History Part 2
Gadsden Messenger 19 March 2008 p9A

**East Gadsden History Part 3
Gadsden Messenger 26 March 2008 p10A



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**USEFUL LINKS
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**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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


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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

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#3056 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:03 am
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 6-9 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

AND NOW THE NEWS...

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

http://news.google.com/

http://www.topix.net/

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

================


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

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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

**The Autauga Genealogical Society meets Sunday, June 15 at 2 p.m.
Location: Prattville First Baptist Church in downtown Prattville, corner of
3rd St. and Washington.  Park in the 3rd St. parking area and use the
breezeway entrance. The program will be presented by ELIZABETH WELLS, Director of the Special
Collections Department of the Samford University Library in Birmingham.  A
noted speaker, her presentation will include information on the holdings of
the department such as numerous church records, Irish collections, maps and
Alabama newspaper and other records on microfilm. This department is also
the repository for all documentation for First Families of Alabama, a
program of the Alabama Genealogical Society.  Mrs. Wells is the immediate
past President of the Alabama Genealogical Society as well as past President
and charter member of the Society of Alabama Archivists and past President
of the Alabama Historical Society. Visitors are always welcome to attend the meetings. 
Visit the Autauga Genealogical Society web site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~alags
 
 
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**HISTORY
=============

**Matt Walker new Tannehill-Brierfield Parks director
http://tinyurl.com/4t9d9k
Birmingham News 9 June 2008

**Two homes named to Alabama Register [of Landmarks and Heritage]
http://tinyurl.com/5zsbqs
Gadsden Times 9 June 2008

**Looking Back [at local history, 50, 25, etc., years ago]
http://tinyurl.com/5q6toq
Tuscaloosa News 9 June 2008

**New county commissioner makes history
[Sid Thompson is first woman elected to Autauga Co. Commission]
http://tinyurl.com/59sm9b
Montgomery Advertiser 9 June 2008

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 9: http://tinyurl.com/5xcqlk
June 8: http://tinyurl.com/423kpu 
June 7: http://tinyurl.com/4r2u4h
Mobile Press-Register

**Writers tackle storms in first Pebble Hill book
[Review of Frye Gaillard & Sheila Hagler's "In the Path of the Storms" about hurricanes in south Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/4dpgqw
Tuscaloosa News 8 June 2008

**Revolutionary War veteran [Benjamin French] had many stories to share
http://tinyurl.com/6dg5qz
Florence Times-Daily 8 June 2008

**Shoals festivals celebrate heritage [in Sheffield and Rogersville]
http://tinyurl.com/6y7asx
Florence Times-Daily 8 June 2008

**b. 07-07-1906 - Leroy 'Satchel' Paige - Mobile, AL - d. 6-8-1982
baseball hall of famer: "Destination Freedom" [radio show]

b. 12-25-1908 - Alton Delmore - Elkmount, AL - d. 6-8-1964
guitar, singer: "Grand Ole Opry" [radio show]
FROM: old.time.radio Digest V2008 #145 http://lists.oldradio.net/ 

**Alabama CCC vet recalls program
http://tinyurl.com/58zryp
Montgomery Advertiser 7 June 2008

**1935 June 6- Jesse Owens is elected Captain of the 1936 track team at Ohio State
University. He is the first African American to hold such position
on any Ohio State Team.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html


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**CULTURE
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**Homewood artist [Jennifer Harwell] teaches healing through art
http://tinyurl.com/4569ry
Birmingham News 9 June 2008

**'Incredible' number of national awards by Bob Jones art students reflects passion of teachers and an 'exceptional methodology'
http://tinyurl.com/3o7cas
Huntsville Times 8 June 2008

**Actor [Glenn Shadix] among 1,000 to take part in Gay Pride parade
http://tinyurl.com/4ttf8v
Birmingham News 8 June 2008

**Gordo's small-town appeal
N.Y. visitors among thousands enjoying Mule Day/Chickenfest
http://tinyurl.com/5kq63o
Tuscaloosa News 8 June 2008

**Alabama drummer sued by band mates
http://tinyurl.com/5z6s3o
Hollywood Reporter via Associated Press 8 June 2008

**Crosses, messages tell story of Rice's faith
Widow: 'The Lord told him to put crosses up'
http://tinyurl.com/5jbe4v
Prattville Progress 7 June 2008

**JFK assassination a religious conspiracy, author says
[Birmingham author Jim Douglass]
http://tinyurl.com/3fbeub
Birmingham News 7 June 2008


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**DEATHS
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**[no entries this issue]


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


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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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

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#3057 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:54 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 5-11 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

AND NOW THE NEWS...

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

http://news.google.com/

http://www.topix.net/

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

================


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

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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

**RETURN TRIP [for Rick Bragg]
Alabama native promotes new book at Huntingdon event [June 12]
http://tinyurl.com/4d3ygf
Montgomery Advertiser 10 June 2008

**Thursday, June 12 6:00 p.m.
Thomas Cook.  Master of the Delta
The Alabama Booksmith, Homewood

One of America's most respected and awarded mystery writers will visit the Alabama Booksmith Thursday, June 12. Thomas Cook has been shortlisted for a carload of awards and collected a ton, including the most prestigious in the genre, The Edgar, for best book of the year. His work has been translated into fifteen languages and he is regularly included  in anthologies listed as the Best Mystery Writing of the Year. His illustrious career spans twenty-six years, and although he now lives in New York City and Cape Cod, he is really a home-boy, born in Ft. Payne, Alabama. His newest release, Master of the Delta, allows this acclaimed wordsmith, who has been compared to Faulkner and Capote, to venture away from pure mystery, and offer a brilliant story of suspense set in the Mississippi Delta. He is also one of the publishing world's nicest guys.

**Sacred Harp singing going strong with younger, non-Southern devotees [June 12-14]
http://tinyurl.com/3ukeqn
Birmingham News 8 June 2008

**”Beautiful Torment” casting call June 21
Birmingham independent filmmaker Jason O’Brien will be casting his next film.
http://www.beautifultorment.com/default.asp?P=11

http://www.beautifultorment.com/

 
**The Autauga Genealogical Society meets Sunday, *June 22* at 2 p.m. [DATE CHANGE]

Location: Prattville First Baptist Church in downtown Prattville, corner of 3rd St. and Washington.  Park in the 3rd St. parking area and use the breezeway entrance. The program will be presented by ELIZABETH WELLS, Director of the Special Collections Department of the Samford University Library in Birmingham.  A noted speaker, her presentation will include information on the holdings of the department such as numerous church records, Irish collections, maps and Alabama newspaper and other records on microfilm. This department is also the repository for all documentation for First Families of Alabama, a program of the Alabama Genealogical Society.  Mrs. Wells is the immediate past President of the Alabama Genealogical Society as well as past President and charter member of the Society of Alabama Archivists and past President of the Alabama Historical Society. Visitors are always welcome to attend the meetings. Visit the Autauga Genealogical Society web site at www.rootsweb.com/~alags and the Autauga County, Alabama web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alautaug/

 

 

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

**Peete, Turner pioneer families [of Madison area] intertwined by money and trust
http://tinyurl.com/4t2aof
Huntsville Times 11 June 2008

** Old [Harper] estate [house in Walnut Grove] damaged by blaze
http://tinyurl.com/53u7dq
Gadsden Times 11 June 2008

** Museum [Enlisted Heritage Hall] at Gunter adds exhibit
http://tinyurl.com/5volzh
Montgomery Advertiser 11 June 2008

**Prattville, Wetumpka offer walking tours of historic areas
http://tinyurl.com/556fto
Prattville Progress 11 June 2008

**1963 June 11:

The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama

George Wallace stepped aside after a stand in the schoolhouse door.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace

**1963 June 11- Vivian Malone and James Hood, accompanied by U.S. Deputy

Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, attempt to register at

the University of Alabama.  They are met by Governor George

Wallace, who bodily blocks their entrance to a campus

building.  When National Guardsmen return later in the day

with Malone and Hood to enter the building, Wallace steps aside.

1972 June 11- Hank Aaron, of the Atlanta Braves, ties Gil Hodges of the

Dodgers for the National League record for the most grand-

slam home runs in a career, with 14.  The Braves will beat

the Philadelphia Phillies 15-3.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

 
**'Cobb's Light' to shine again

City [of Foley] to dedicate copy of beacon later this summer

http://tinyurl.com/5lvgnk
Mobile Press-Register 10 June 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY
Wallace blocked blacks at UA
http://tinyurl.com/62t89u
Montgomery Advertiser 10 June 2008

**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 11: http://tinyurl.com/427vbt
June 10: http://tinyurl.com/59wmoo
Mobile Press-Register

**Birmingham News' Charles Hollis inducted into state sports writers hall of fame
http://tinyurl.com/6mqr7s
Birmingham News 9 June 2008

**Couple buy Birmingham's Florentine Building [built in 1928] to spice up catering business

Corretti to cater, offer dining
http://tinyurl.com/5cv8cg
Birmingham News 8 June 2008

** A time to reconnect
African Heritage Festival [in Tuscumbia] aims to preserve history
http://tinyurl.com/4v6fq2
Florence Times-Daily 8 June 2008

**Tuskegee Library awarded $60,000 grant to preserve historical photographs
http://tinyurl.com/5trjlf
Tuskegee University press release 6 June 2008

**Always Coca-Cola: Local artist [Lynn Dodson] restores history
http://tinyurl.com/4m7jjd
Shelby County Reporter 6 June 2008

**UAB Anesthesiology Department celebrates 60 years
http://tinyurl.com/4zjgde
UAB Reporter Online 5 June 2008

**Children’s Health System Announces Pediatric Nursing Hall of Fame
Birmingham Medical News June 2008, p25


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

**UAB planning visual arts complex near Alys Stephens Center
http://tinyurl.com/4xzzcw
Birmingham News 11 June 2008

**Think tank created to bring Birmingham artists together
http://tinyurl.com/3ubpvg
Birmingham News 11 June 2008

**A literary David takes on a giant
[Profile of high school student Alec Niedenthal, whose writing has interested NY publishers]
http://tinyurl.com/44vl9v
Birmingham News 8 June 2008

**Look Back May Reveal Too Much Information

[review of latest novel by Fort Payne native Thomas H. Cook, Master of the Delta]
Birmingham News 8 June 2008 p12G


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

**Tommy Snowden, longtime Shelby probate judge, dies at his Pelham home
http://tinyurl.com/3l47tk
Birmingham News 11 June 2008

**His love for music spun many a label
[Ben Saxon, who died in May, founded the Birmingham Record Collectors]
http://tinyurl.com/3ly93f
Birmingham News 8 June 2008

**Jim Hayes, former Alabama economic development official, dies
[Editorial about Hayes 9 June 2008]
http://tinyurl.com/5lb3eu
Birmingham News 8 June 2008

**Mildred Elisabeth Thomas Kent [obituary; she was very active in Birmingham & Alabama genealogical societies]
http://tinyurl.com/4r722a
Birmingham News 8 June 2008

**UNA Football
Hall of Fame coach Hal Self dies at 86
[article not online; obituary: http://tinyurl.com/4dufpt ]
Birmingham News 7 June 2008 p4C


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

**What Came Before

Exploring UAB’s Past Lives

http://tinyurl.com/63wjz6
UAB Magazine V28N1 spring 2008


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**USEFUL LINKS
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**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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@...

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#3058 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:30 am
Subject: H-Southern-Industry: Review of _Alabama Blast Furnaces_ 		anesuab2001
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Subject: H-Southern-Industry: Review of _Alabama Blas Furnaces_

REVIEW: 

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Southern-Industry@... (June 2008)

Joseph H. Woodward II. _Alabama Blast Furnaces_. New Introduction by James R. Bennett. The Library of Alabama Classics Series. First published in 1940 by Woodward Iron Company. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2007. 170 pp. Illustrations, appendices, index. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8173-5432-9.

Reviewed for H-Southern-Industry by Martin T. Olliff, Department of History, Troy University-Dothan

A Blast (Furnace) from the Past

In 1940, amateur historian and scion of the Woodward Iron Company family of Birmingham, Joseph H. Woodward II, penned this short reference book describing all blast furnaces erected in Alabama between 1815 and 1940. He included eighty entries--seventy-six active furnaces and four that never went into blast--alphabetized by company name. In 2007, the University of Alabama Press reprinted this work as part of its Library of Alabama Classics series.[1] The publisher wanted to rerelease _Alabama Blast Furnaces_ earlier, but lacked a suitable expert to write the introduction. This changed when the press engaged James R. Bennett, a trustee of Jacksonville State University, a former Alabama secretary of state, and an amateur historian of the state's iron industry, whose major contribution is a significant work about the Tannehill Ironworks near Birmingham. Bennett's introduction provides a short biography of Woodward, including a discussion of how Woodward assembled the book and th!
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praise it received from such historians as Ethel Armes, author of _The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama_ (1910).

Woodward opened _Alabama Blast Furnaces_ with four historical sketches, organized according to changes in the state's iron industry. His "Pioneer Era" ran from 1815, when the state's first-known furnace went into blast, to 1861. Though enthralled by his subject, Woodward was not blind to its handicaps and foibles. Far from succumbing to a veneration of the pioneer past around which so many myths appeared, he wrote, "In a certain measure the pioneer ironmaster was a courageous man but in his own eyes ... he was simply a business man.... These little furnaces were nevertheless the stepping stones to our modern plants" (p. 18). His "Civil War Era" (1861-65) noted the lengths to which the Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau went to secure much-needed pig iron, including its partial or complete funding of thirteen new furnaces in Alabama. Here, too, Woodward did not follow the conventional narrative of "Yankee" depredations in raids across the state. He focused on the industry, m!
 en!
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tioning transportation difficulties, labor shortages, industrial slavery, and inventions by hard-pressed ironmasters. This section of the book formed his article, "Alabama Iron Manufacturing, 1860-1865," published in _The Alabama Review_ in 1954. In his very short section, "The Reconstruction Era" (1866-79), Woodward reverted to the then-prevailing narrative of carpetbagger and scalawag rule, but quickly came back to technological innovations, particularly in the change from stone furnaces to iron- or steel-shell stacks.

These three sections were the prelude to what he really wanted to discuss. In "The Modern Era" (1880-1940), he considered the rapid development of the industry in what was its golden age, a time when Birmingham became known as both the "Pittsburgh of the South" and the "Magic City." Woodward traced the growth of iron and steel making in, for him, great detail, tracking technological change, fuel improvements, expanded production, and the emergence of the by-products industry. Here, though, Woodward allowed his enthusiasm to get the better of his judgment. He ended with a booster's cheer: "But of the ultimate destiny of Alabama's iron industry there can be no question. That destiny was decreed aeons ago, when Nature stored huge reserves of coal, ore and limestone in close proximity in Alabama and cast here the mold of a great industry" (p. 30). Unfortunately, structural issues in the industry and in the world economy worked against Woodward's boosterism, and Alabama's iron in!
 du!
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stry suffered.

None of these essays are particularly satisfying. Though he follows them with a short summary, Woodward did not tell much more about the industry itself than was available in other works available at the time. That is, he did not integrate the stories of his furnaces into a narrative about the industry in the state. The essays are helpful as background and are interesting for the details they contain, but Woodward did not extend them beyond a short narrative.

The main body of the work is its eighty pen portraits and forty-two pictures of Alabama's blast furnaces. Each entry gives the company history as well as a fairly detailed account of the furnaces themselves. Woodward described changes in ownership, auxiliary businesses, furnace erection dates, stack heights, bosh diameters, construction materials, loading systems, types of ore used, output in gross tons, and other specifics. His coverage was uneven both within many entries (highly detailed technological specifics coupled with vague business histories) and between entries (particularly in the level of business history coverage). I suspect this occurred because his research method was to survey newspaper editors and historians from across the state. This inadequate research resulted in a significant flaw: only when he mentioned it in his text did Woodward cite his sources. Readers are left to rely on Woodward's authority, which itself relies on the authority of unnamed others.

Woodward finished with two appendices and an index. The first is a list of the furnaces arranged by date when each went into blast. He included the name and location of each furnace as well as the fuel source if known. The second appendix is a tabulation of Alabama's pig iron production for 1840, 1850, and each year from 1872 through 1939. Interestingly, Woodward cited his sources for the second appendix.

Alabama's business and economic history suffers from a lack of monographic treatment. Amateur and professional historians have made significant contributions, but most of those have come since the 1970s. Alabama historiography before then was dominated by general histories and reference works, of which Woodward's _Alabama Blast Furnaces_ is a good example. This work has significant flaws--its lack of verifiable sources, unevenness, and weak introductory essays. Nevertheless, it is well-written, engaging, interesting, and, if the reader accepts Woodward's expertise, authoritative. Bennett's interesting introduction places Woodward and the book into context. Furthermore, the illustrations of the blast furnaces, Confederate orders, and newspaper clippings are well executed and important (particularly, as Bennett notes, because some of the original prints have been lost over time).

Despite its flaws, Woodward's work was important when it first appeared and is important now. He captured details of forgotten furnaces and provided his modern readers with inside knowledge of the golden age of Alabama's iron and steel industry. Furthermore, the entries are intellectually available to a wide audience (although readers unfamiliar with blast furnace technology should keep their dictionaries handy). _Alabama Blast Furnaces_ is a fine addition to the Library of Alabama Classics series and will make a fine addition to the libraries of anyone interested in the iron and steel making industry, Alabama history, or southern economic and business history.

Note

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**Alabama Stories: “Taking Off“
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**Psaltery festival showcases ancient instrument [June 14]
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Birmingham News 12 June 2008

**Singers gather in Birmingham for National Sacred Harp Convention [June 12-14]
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Birmingham News 13 June 2008

**[South Alabama] Film group plans another 'scramble' [July 18-20]
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Mobile Press-Register 9 June 2008


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**Birmingham City Council inducts five into Birmingham's Gallery of Distinguished Citizens
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Birmingham News 13 June 2008

**Riley to honor amateur radio club
[70th anniversary of the Montgomery Amateur Radio Club]
http://tinyurl.com/6qkctn
Montgomery Advertiser 12 June 2008

**1932 June 12: Jim Nabors, actor (Gomer Pyle, USMC; Mayberry, RFD), singer [is born in Sylacauga]
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**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
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Mobile Press-Register

**This Week In [Local] History: June 11, 2008
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**HERITAGE WALKING TOUR
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Wetumpka Herald 10 June 2008

**[Mullins Family] Cemetery gets new historic headstones
http://tinyurl.com/664xx4
Clanton Advertiser 10 June 2008


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**New stamps feature state flags [including Alabama’s]
http://tinyurl.com/5v65en
Tuscaloosa News 13 June 2008

**MTV will air prom at Hillcrest High on June 21|
http://tinyurl.com/66majl
Tuscaloosa News 13 June 2008

**A Pocketful of Doubt [review]
Local author Jim Noles pens a clever but factually troubled history of the 50 states.
http://tinyurl.com/5vojy4
Black and White City Paper [Birmingham] 12 June 2008

**Mardi Gras released: Documentary on Mobile celebration gets domestic distribution
http://tinyurl.com/6qq8xz
Mobile Press-Register 12 June 2008

**Fairfield native Adrienne Fox pens new novel
http://tinyurl.com/5zxmng
Birmingham News 12 June 2008

**Quilter makes Alzheimer's unit homey with creations
http://tinyurl.com/5rbpc4
Birmingham News 12 June 2008



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**James Moon, former UAB hospital administrative pioneer, dies

UAB pioneer in administration draws praise
[obituary: http://tinyurl.com/5d8czs ]
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Birmingham News 12 June 2008

**Thomas A. Snowden, Jr. [obituary]
[Shelby Co. probate judge and longtime Chair of County Commission]
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Birmingham News 12 June 2008

**Faith's Tom Russell dies at 56

Coach [at Faith Academy] fought cancer for a year

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Mobile Press-Register 12 June 2008

**Allen Jones, Sr. [obituary]
[He was a member of the Birmingham Railroad Gandy Dancers 1991-1996]
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Birmingham News 11 June 2008


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**Mignon UMC celebrates a rich history at May 18 homecoming [Sylacauga]
http://tinyurl.com/4d4k92
Talladega Daily Home 10 May 2008

**Alabama Media Portal
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**Bygone Memories of Small Country Churches [column by Jean Butterworth]
Senior Living [Birmingham] 15(6): 3


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Shooting on Frank Turner Hollon's screenplay, Barry Munday, has just finished. It was directed by Chris D'Arienzo and has two dozen stars including Patrick Murphy, Cybill Shepard and Billy Dee Williams. It'll be the end of the year before you'll be able to see his movie based on the book,  Life is a Strange Place. The good news is the wait to get a signed copy of The Wait is quite short.

Frank Turner Hollon will be at the Booksmith Monday signing copies of his newest release, The Wait. Critics have compared the writing in The Wait to Philip Roth and William Faulkner. We'll also have all previous titles of this brilliant south Alabama attorney, including  Life is a Strange Place.
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**Historic properties seminar set Wednesday [June 18]
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Eufaula Tribune 13 June 2008

**Archives department to hold open house for educators [June 24-25]
http://tinyurl.com/43pleh
Montgomery Advertiser 13 June 2008

**Sandstone: Birmingham's Building Blocks [until August 31]
[review of exhibit at Vulcan Park and Museum]
http://tinyurl.com/6kdkxp
Birmingham News 15 June 2008


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**HISTORY
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** Sons work to keep mom's memory alive [in a house museum]
[Mother was Aurelia Browder Coleman, involved in a landmark 1955 civil rights case in Montgomery]
http://tinyurl.com/5vu3no
Montgomery Advertiser 16 June 2008

**Looking back [at local history 50, 25, etc., years ago]
http://tinyurl.com/6784k7
Tuscaloosa News 16 June 2008

**2008 June 16: Birmingham native/American Idol runner-up Diana DiGarmo is 21.

**Visit trail shelter, historic church on Pinhoti hike
[Shoal Creek Church "is among the last remaining hand-built, log-hewn churches in the state]
http://tinyurl.com/3ql8j7
Birmingham News 15 June 2008

**Former Troy State [Sim Byrd] quarterback earns honor
http://tinyurl.com/6lc3ll
Montgmery Advertiser 15 June 2008

**Confederate re-enactors mark Jefferson Davis birthday
http://tinyurl.com/5zv59g
Montgomery Advertiser 15 June 2008

**Artist Jeremiah Day captures Lowndes County's legacy
http://tinyurl.com/57yoa5
Montgomery Advertiser 15 June 2008

**Bibb County history found buried in woods
http://tinyurl.com/59u3kh
Tuscaloosa News 15 June 2008

**1991 June 16- Natalie Cole's album 'Unforgettable' is released.  The album

consists of her rendition of 24 songs by her father, Nat

King Cole, and includes the title track, specially remixed

to include both father and daughter's voices.  It will be

her most successful album, selling over 4,000,000 copies, and will sweep the Grammy Awards ceremonies in 1992.

1951 June 15- Joe Louis knocks out Lee Savold in a closed-circuit TV
fight seen by fight fans in movie theatres in six cities.
FROM: Today in Black History
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**1977 June 16: Werner von Braun dies at 65.

1964 June 15: Courteney Cox, actor (Friends, 3000 Miles to Graceland) [is born.]
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**Two longtime workers say goodbye to Tannehill, Brierfield parks
Couple [Helen and Marty Everse] have 42 years' experience between them
http://tinyurl.com/4duel2
Birmingham News 14 June 2008

**Singers from all over gather for sacred harp convention
http://tinyurl.com/6ct7vv
Montgomery Advertiser 14 June 2008 [reprint from Birmingham News]

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 16: http://tinyurl.com/6fhk8z
June 15: http://tinyurl.com/4q86pf 
June 14: http://tinyurl.com/4tox3o
Mobile Press-Register

**Railroad enthusiasts join to resurrect 1950s dining car [at Heart of Dixie R.R. Museum in Calera]
Birmingham News 14 June 2008, p6E

**Hotel Willingham added to Alabama Register
http://tinyurl.com/68h8b2
Clanton Advertiser 13 June 2008


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**[Birmingham author Christopher] George pens book on colonial leader [Jonathan Edwards]
http://tinyurl.com/48ttex
Birmingham News 14 June 2008

**Former jail social worker [Peggy A. Lewis] signs book
http://tinyurl.com/4cwroh
Birmingham News 14 June 2008


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**[no entries this issue]


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**Thicket Magazine ["Alabama Redefined"]
http://thicketmag.com/content/ 

**Looking back to the early days of Alabama City
Gadsden Messenger 4 June 2008, p8A

**[Ala.] Author Joe Turman to visit Gadsden for book signing
[Guntersville resident Turman is the author of Sling Creek, Getting on with the Going, and Buddy, The Life of Texas Boxing Legend Buddy Turman]
Gadsden Messenger 14 May 2008, p3A


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**Centreville, West Blocton added to Alabama walking tour program [summer Saturdays]
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Birmingham News 17 June 2008


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**[Madison area pioneer] Jesse James Bendall recalled as 'honest man'
http://tinyurl.com/6zzvfk
Huntsville Times 18 June 2008

**PILOT'S BODY FOUND AFTER 64 YEARS [W.L. McVay, Jr.]
http://tinyurl.com/6nz2m5
Mobile Press-Register 18 June 2008

**Alabama men visit WWI battlefields where grandfather [Capt. Gilbert Douglas] performed surgery
http://tinyurl.com/693pdk
Birmingham News 18 June 2008

**Adamsville woman donates Southern Railway memorabilia to Leeds Depot
http://tinyurl.com/5jxg5v
Birmingham News 18 June 2008

**Civil Rights Institute plans major renovations
http://tinyurl.com/6qcord
Birmingham News 17 June 2008

**Honor OK, but ring of shame might be better
[John Archibald column in wake of this year’s inductees to Birmingham Gallery of Distinguished Citizens]
http://tinyurl.com/5nacbf
Birmingham News 17 June 2008

**Mountain Brook shop [Eve’s Leaves dress shop] closing after 41 years

http://tinyurl.com/6fxhqc
Birmingham News 17 June 2008

**Tuskegee Airmen to be subject of George Lucas film
http://tinyurl.com/6ko9e3
Associated Press 17 June 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY: Governor [William J. Samford] died with no lieutenant
http://tinyurl.com/3j88jj
Montgomery Advertiser 17 June 2008

**1957 June 17- A major boycott begins in Tuskegee, Alabama.  African

Americans boycott city stores in protest against an

act of the state legislature which deprives them of

municipal votes by placing their homes outside city limits.
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**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 18: http://tinyurl.com/5jxrfa
June 17: http://tinyurl.com/5tnf5v
Mobile Press-Register

**UAB Anesthesiology and State Society Celebrate their 60th Anniversaries
http://images.main.uab.edu/imedpub/syn-jun1608.pdf
UAB Synopsis 16 June 2008

**SATCHEL PAIGE: Striking Out Jim Crow [review of new children's book]
http://tinyurl.com/5cxgkv
New York Times 15 June 2008


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**Center for Arts opens doors in style
http://tinyurl.com/5jg77m
Troy Messenger 17 June 2008

**Blind Boys Of Alabama: Making A (Very Cool, Jazzy And Jumpin'), Joyful Noise
http://tinyurl.com/3esyp5
top40-charts.com 16 June 2008



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**Founder of Baptist's radiology department dies [John Kimbrough]
http://tinyurl.com/6p8vhl
Montgomery Advertiser 18 June 2008

**Evangeline Webster [obituary; Alabama author of two family histories]
http://tinyurl.com/696gmh
Birmingham News 17 June 2008

**Harry Lange:
Former NASA Illustrator who created the cool, realistic designs for Kubirck’s classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey

[During the Korean War, Lange spent 3 years based in Alabama and later worked with Werner von Braun]
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Telegraph [London] 13 June 2008



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Burnett, Lonnie A. Henry Hotze: Confederate Propagandist; Selected Writings on Revolution, Recognition, and Race. University of Alabama Press, 2008 [Hotze was a Mobile resident for many years.]


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

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#3063 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:50 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 18-20 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

http://news.google.com/

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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


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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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

** New plaque to mark historic site [June 28, for Chilton Co. Training School]
http://tinyurl.com/4jdsqz
Clanton Advertiser 18 June 2008

**"American Classics: Selected Photographs of Alabama by Walker Evans"
 will be on display at Auburn University's Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art through Aug. 23.
http://jcsm.auburn.edu/index.php


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**HISTORY
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**Marijuana found in long-sealed city safe [unused since 1971]
http://tinyurl.com/5uodgk
Mobile Press-Register 20 June 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY
Alabama troops guarded border [with Mexico in 1916]
http://tinyurl.com/6jqofz
Montgomery Advertiser 20 June 2008

**Fading away [old rock schoolhouse in Springville]
http://tinyurl.com/4tjrgd
St. Clair Times 19 June 2008

**Fairhope's city safe to be opened today [built in 1867 and used until 1971]
http://tinyurl.com/4vdwo4
Mobile Press-Register 19 June 2008

**Cemetery placed on historic register
[Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, “burial ground for some of Montgomery’s early pioneers”]
http://tinyurl.com/6bpwq8
Montgomery Advertiser 19 June 2008

**1864 June 19: CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France.
 
1946 June 19: First TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn.
FROM: Poor Gabriel’s Almanac poorgabriel@...

**1864 June 19- In a famous duel between the USS Kearsage and the CSS

Alabama off Cherbourg, France, a brave African American

sailor, Joachim Pease, displays "marked coolness" and

will win a Congressional Medal of Honor.  The CSS Alabama will be sunk.

 

1936 June 19- Joe Louis is knocked out by Max Schmeling in the 12th

round of their heavyweight boxing match. The German boxer

earns his victory at Yankee Stadium in New York.

 

1946 June 19- Joe Louis fights Billy Conn, in New York City, in the

first championship prize fight to be televised.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**b. 06-19-1915 - Pat Buttram - Addison, AL - d. 1-8-1994

actor: (Sage of Winston County) "National Barn Dance"

b. 06-20-1911 - Gail Patrick - Birmingham, AL - d. 7-6-1980

actor: "The Dreft Star Playhouse"
old.time.radio Digest V2008 Issue #153

http://lists.oldradio.net/

**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 20: http://tinyurl.com/5g34qm
June 19: http://tinyurl.com/4ztuvs
Mobile Press-Register

 


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**CULTURE
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**Mobile filmmaker [Margaret Brown] plans hometown premiere of Mardi Gras documentary
http://tinyurl.com/4g9ado
Mobile Press-Register 19 June 2008

**After years of rolling, iconic live oaks at Toomer's Corner set for tree surgery
http://tinyurl.com/4je8m9
Birmingham News 19 June 2008


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**DEATHS
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**Linden mayor dies of cancer
Pat Vice was buried with military honors
http://tinyurl.com/58k8x3
Tuscaloosa News 20 June 2008

**Former Marion Military Institute professor dies [Marshall Knudsen]
http://tinyurl.com/6afzyq
Mobile Press-Register 20 June 2008

**Linden mayor dies at 74

Roy 'Pat' Vice had cancer, says a city official
http://tinyurl.com/5xkxro
Mobile Press-Register 19 June 2008



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**BONUS MATERIAL
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**Recent/Forthcoming Books with Alabama Connections

Harness, Cheryl. The Groundbreaking, Chance-taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science & Invention in America. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, c2008 [Intended for a juvenile audience]

Hemphill, Paul. A Tiger Walk Through History: The Complete Story of Auburn Football from 1892 to the Tuberville Era. University of Alabama Press, August 2008

Kolchin, Peter. First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama’s Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction. University of Alabama Press, October 2008

Pasquill, Jr., Robert. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, 1933-1942: A Great and Lasting Good. University of Alabama Press, August 2008

 

**Title: Call for Papers: South to a Queer Place: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Queer Lives and Southern      Sensibilities   Date: 2008-09-01
Description: This call for proposals is for an interdisciplinary collection of narratives, tentatively entitled South to a Queer Place: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Queer Lives and Southern Sensibilities, set in the context of the queer South. Essays will be explorations of queer Southernness and Southern.. 
Contact: ruwhitlock@...
Announcement ID: 162693
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=162693


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**USEFUL LINKS
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**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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


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**alabamahistory related links
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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

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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
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#3064 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:03 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 19-23 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

AND NOW THE NEWS...

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

http://news.google.com/

http://www.topix.net/

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

================


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

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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx


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**HISTORY
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**Workers discover [1864] cannon shell [at Fort Morgan]
http://tinyurl.com/6anlvh
Mobile Press-Register 23 June 2008

**Project aims to fix leaks at fort [Morgan]
http://tinyurl.com/6ywhh3
Mobile Press-Register 23 June 2008

**Shelby County artist restores [ca. 1950s] Coca-Cola sign in Columbiana
http://tinyurl.com/6dkser
Birmingham News 23 June 2008

**Jesse Owens Memorial Park still is missing running track
http://tinyurl.com/5m4plv
Tuscaloosa News 23 June 2008

**Bataan survivor receives military honor
[Bert Bank; induction into Alabama Military Hall of Honor]
http://tinyurl.com/6fsgml
Montgomery Advertiser 23 June 2008

**Old Mobile photos [by Wilson Burton] brought to light
http://tinyurl.com/5ouzp6 
Mobile Press-Register 22 June 2008

**Verbena choir sings praises of WWII hero [Oscar Howard]
http://tinyurl.com/6btjay
Mobile Press-Register 22 June 2008

**Reunion [of former residents] celebrates China Grove connection
http://tinyurl.com/63l3cv
Montgomery Advertiser 22 June 2008

**1937 June 22- Joe Louis knocks out James Braddock to become the
        heavyweight boxing champion of the world.  The fight
        is won in eight rounds before 45,000 fans, the largest
        audience, to date, to witness a fight.
        
1938 June 22- Joe Louis defeats German boxer Max Schmeling in a
        rematch of their 1936 fight and retains his world
        heavyweight crown.  Because of the Nazi persecution of
        Jews in Europe and Hitler's disdain for people of
        African descent, the fight will take on mythic
        proportion, with Louis seen by many as fighting to
        uphold democracy and the race.  He succeeds
        convincingly, ending the fight in 2:04 of the first
        round at Yankee Stadium.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**1837 June 22: Paul Morphy, legendary chess master [He attended Spring Hill College in Mobile.]

1937 June 22: Joe Louis, heavyweight pugilist, becomes world champion.

1938 June 22:  Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling in the first round (2:04).

1977 June 22: Former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 month sentence
          in an Alabama prison.
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 23: http://tinyurl.com/6bsyl9
June 22: http://tinyurl.com/5fnxna
Mobile Press-Register

**UA's Saban inducted into [Independence Bowl] Hall of Honor
http://tinyurl.com/4b7nxv
Tuscaloosa News 21 June 2008

**Alabama city's sealed safe stashed 37-year-old pot [Fairhope]
http://tinyurl.com/6ek8ws
Houston Chronicle 20 June 2008

**A new BIR could bring in more races
[Auto racing site built in 1925; horse racing began at the site in 1889]
See also http://tinyurl.com/46xfpq  and
http://tinyurl.com/3upovr
Birmingham News 20 June 2008

**2008 June 20: Singer and Tuskegee native Lionel Ritchie turns 59.


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

**Gadsden native writes of childhood adventures [Jacquelyn Massey Orton]
http://tinyurl.com/6yl8kk
Gadsden Times 23 June 2008

**Poetry [anthology] captures state's past, present, future
http://tinyurl.com/6367nv
Huntsville Times 22 June 2008

**[Band] Un-Reconstructed nominated for [regional] Emmy
http://tinyurl.com/4zbjvp
Gadsden Times 21 June 2008

**Singer [Robert Huffman] hopes video takes him to ballgame
http://tinyurl.com/4jkpkk
Tuscaloosa News 21 June 2008

**Malone brothers invite public to recording
http://tinyurl.com/3wqpj3
Florence Times-Daily 19 June 2008



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

**Punta Clara's Dot Pacey dies at 88 [her candies and jams were famous]
http://tinyurl.com/69u7bd
Mobile Press-Register 23 June 2008

**Friends remember Selma's eccentric genius [Jim Rutledge]
http://tinyurl.com/67vnva
Montgomery Advertiser 23 June 2008

**Animal advocate dies at 96
Margaret Barnes co-founded local SPCA
http://tinyurl.com/3geh8z
Mobile Press-Register 21 June 2008

**Former Huntingdon professor dies [Fern Cox]
http://tinyurl.com/3ubs3y
Montgomery Advertiser 21 June 2008


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

**Pop Goes the City
Charles Buchanan's Printworks & the Magic City that Inspires Them
http://cbuchanan.wordpress.com/ 


================
**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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]
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#3065 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:52 pm
Subject: Ala. author Carolyn Haines/Montgomery/June 25 		anesuab2001
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From: Capitol Book [mailto:capitolbook@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:30 AM
To: Capitol Book
Subject: Carolyn Haines Tomorrow

 

 

The Capitol Book Newsletter

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

 

Carolyn Haines Here Tomorrow!

 

"If only I hadn't kidnapped the dog..."

 

With those unforgettable words Carolyn Haines introduced the world to unconventional Southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney and started a phenomenonally successful mystery series, set mostly in the Mississippi Delta.

 

In Wishbones, the brand new, (eighth!) book in the series, Sarah Booth is pursuing her longtime love of acting and wins the role of a lifetime in a sexy Hollywood movie.  But it wouldn't be a mystery without a murder and it wouldn't be a Sarah Booth story without some romantic complications, so hang on to your hat!  Her earlier books have been praised as: outrageous, humorous, ever-amusing, charming, madcap, both clever and impressive, and sure to please, and so is this new one! We know you'll love it.

 

Carolyn will be here at Capitol Book TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, FROM 12 NOON-1:30 to sign books and meet her many fans. Please join us!

 

Wishbones is in hardcover, $23.95.  If you can't be here but would like a signed copy, just let us know and we'll be happy to take care of it for you.  And, yes, we do have the first seven books in this winning series, all in paperback, $6.99 each. So if you haven't discovered Carolyn before now, you can ease into the series with just a paperback or two, but you won't be able to stop there. If you like cozy, Southern mysteries, these are the books for you.

 

To read an interview with Carolyn, CLICK HERE.

To read a review of Wishbones, CLICK HERE.

 

----------------------------------------------------
Cheryl and Thomas Upchurch
Capitol Book & News Company
1140 E. Fairview Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36106
Voice 334.265.1473
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#3066 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:00 pm
Subject: BGS June 28th Meeting & Other resource postings 		anesuab2001
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From: Melissa Hogan [mailto:genealogistinal@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:49 PM
To: aljeffer@...; jefferson-county@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ALJEFF] BGS June 28th Meeting - Old School
Scrapbooking(Birmingham Archives)

Please join us Saturday for this great program!

Details regarding the meeting:

http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/june-28-2008-old-sch
ool-scrapbooking/

Other items posted to the Blog this month:

African American Military Service Resources
http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/african-american-mil
itary-service-resources/

Union Hill Cemetery Update
http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/union-hill-cemetery-
story-to-run-on-local-nbc-tv-station/

Tannehill Archaelogical Dig
http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/tannehill-slave-quar
ters-archaeological-dig-continues/

In Memoriam, Mildred Thomas Kent
http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/in-memoriam-mildred-
thomas-kent/

Alabama Methodist Church Records
http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/alabama-methodist-ch
urch-records/



Thanks,

Melissa Hogan
BGS Historian/Blog-Administrator
http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/

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#3067 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:11 pm
Subject: FW: AWF E-newsletter June-July 2008 		anesuab2001
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AWF Newsletter June-July 2008

 

Emerging Arts Leaders of Alabama to hold creative conversation

David Dombrosky

David Dombrosky

Emerging arts leaders are invited to attend the Emerging Arts Leaders of Alabama's (EALA) creative conversation to help shape Alabama's own network of emerging arts leaders. The conversation will take place on Thursday, June 26, from noon-4 p.m. at the UAB Alys Stephens Center's Abroms Patrons Lounge in Birmingham. Lunch will be provided.

Guest speaker David Dombrosky will lead a group discussion designed to shape the functions and direction of a statewide emerging arts leaders' network. Dombrosky is Executive Director of the Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University and Immediate Past-President of Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader National Council.

EALA exists to serve arts professionals new to the field who are thirty-five years of age or younger, or who have less than five years of experience. However, arts leaders from every age range may participate.

Neither a presentation, panel, nor workshop, the conversation will be generated by those who attend and the ideas they bring. Participants should come prepared to share their thoughts and ideas about how EALA can best support Alabama's emerging arts leaders.

To RSVP, please email emergingartsleaders@... and request an invitation.

 

State's first Roundtable Technology Exchange to convene

The state's first Roundtable Technology Exchange will take place on July 31, 1-5 p.m., at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery. The roundtable will convene Alabama's literary, cultural, historical, art, and educational organizations to discuss their individual and shared tech opportunities and challenges.

The exchange will feature a free seminar on e-marketing and communications by Patron Technology, Inc., provider of professional e-marketing for arts, nonprofits, and creative businesses. Patron Mail suits nonprofit and educational organizations of all sizes and at all levels of technology.

Break-out discussion sessions on technology and education, development, and communications/promotion will follow the seminar.

The Roundtable Technology Exchange, a pre-conference event for Face the Future: Humanities and Technology in the 21st Century, is sponsored by the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Alabama Writers' Forum, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum.

FOR A FULL SCHEDULE AND DETAILS...

 

Alabama Festival in Italy features art, music, and literature

The Alabama Year of the Arts banner mounted on the historic San Agostino Duomo in Pietrasanta, Italy.

The Alabama Year of the Arts banner mounted on the historic San Agostino Duomo in Pietrasanta, Italy.

The inaugural Alabama-Italy Arts Exchange took place May 31-June 13 in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy.  A delegation of Alabama arts leaders, artists, musicians, and elected officials traveled to the tiny city known as "Little Athens" to begin a dialogue about Alabama's arts and culture and to pave the way for a reciprocal trip next spring.  At the request of officials of the City of Pietrasanta, the Festival emphasized the state's civil rights history.

Georgine Clarke and others from the Alabama State Council on the Arts designed The Alabama Festival: Freedom Dream featuring the story quilts of Yvonne Wells and examples of civil rights photography.   Well's quilts, depicting historical facts of Alabama history such as the passage of slave ships, slave auctions, and Biblical parables, were hung among the twelfth and thirteenth century frescoes and the seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings of the San Agostino Duomo.  In the adjacent cloisters, an exhibit of the late Spider Martin's black and white photographs of the 1965 Selma Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing were on display with specially printed posters by Amos Kennedy.  Two of Nall's crosses from the 2006 exhibit Violata Pax were displayed, echoing the spiritualism of the exhibition.  In another exhibition area below the cloisters, artists Charlie Lucas and Bruce Larson exhibited sculpture created from found objects that they had assembled in the previous two weeks on site, prior to the festival.

Across the green space of the Cloisters, exhibits told about the geography and resources of Alabama. In another adjacent room four symposia took place during the festival.  The first presented aspects of Alabama arts and featured Paige Wainwright of Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Mark Johnson of the Montgomery Museum of Art and Glenn Dasher of University of Alabama Huntsville Department of Art.  Another focused on Alabama's civil rights history and a third on Alabama literature. In the week following, a final symposium dealing with civil rights issues of immigration in Europe and Italy in particular rounded out the festival. 

During the literary symposium, Alabama Writers' Forum executive director Jeanie Thompson discussed Harper Lee's iconic Alabama novel To Kill A Mockingbird and briefly introduced the Italian audience to the work of three contemporary Alabama writers who have written about issues of race, violence, and reconciliation: Sena Jeter Naslund (Four Spirits), Jake Adam York (A Murmuration of Starlings), and Ravi Howard (Like Trees, Walking). All of the symposia were translated into Italian, and Thompson provided copies of Il Buio Oltre La Siepe, the Italian translation of To Kill a Mockingbird.

LEARN MORE...

 

Music was the star in Pietrasanta, Italy, during Alabama Freedom Dream, May 31-June 13

The Birmingham Sunlights in Pietrasanta, Italy, June 1. (Photo by Steve Grauberger)

The Birmingham Sunlights in Pietrasanta, Italy, June 1. (Photo by Steve Grauberger)

Frequent free musical events were perhaps the biggest hit of the Alabama Freedom Dream.  Enthusiastic locals and tourists in Pietrasanta enjoyed gospel group The Birmingham Sunlights, bluesman Kent Duchane, and bluegrass musician Bobby Horton.

In addition to the artists and musicians, the Alabama delegation included Alabama State Council on the Arts chair Ralph Frohsin and his wife Allyn; Council member Lee Sentell (also serving as Governor Bob Riley's representative in his capacity as director of the Bureau of Tourism and Travel); executive director Al Head; staff members Georgine Clarke, Randy Shoults, and Steve Grauberger; Montgomery City Councilman Jim Spears and his wife Sarah Spears, Montgomery County Tax Assessor; and Mayor Sam Wright of Sylacauga and his wife Connie, who participated to learn more about Italian marble and the possibility of bringing Italian sculptors to Alabama.  Sylacauga's white marble is similar to the white marble in the Apaune Alps just above Pietrasanta where Michelangelo chose stone for some of his most famous works. 

Next April and May an Italian delegation will visit Alabama and bring musicians, sculptors, and other artists. The Alabama Writers' Forum is working with several literary representatives.  Look for an expanded story about Alabama Freedom Dream with additional photos in the Fall 2008 First Draft.

LEARN MORE...

 

Harper Lee Award anthology now available

Gather Up Our Voices: Selected Writings from Recipients of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer 1998-2007 is now available for purchase.  The anthology features poems, stories, and nonfiction from the first ten winners of Alabama's most prestigious literary award.   The 130-page, large format paperback with dust jacket also features twenty-five hand-colored black and white photographs by award-winning Alabama photographer Wayne Sides of Florence.

Anthology editor and Alabama Writers' Forum executive director Jeanie Thompson said, "As we put together selections from our inaugural ten years of the award, we thought it would be appropriate to thread through an eleventh story in photographic images.  Wayne Side's haunting photographs from Litany for a Vanishing Landscape make an appropriate echo to much of the historical context for this work." 

Harper Lee Award winners in the book include Albert Murray, Madison Jones, Helen Norris, Sena Jeter Naslund, Mary Ward Brown, Rodney Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Andrew Hudgins, Wayne Greenhaw, and William Cobb. 

Gather Up Our Voices is available for $30, which includes shipping and handling, or as a premium with a $100 membership in the Alabama Writers' Forum. To order, contact Nancy Hutcheson at the Forum at writersforum@... or toll free at 866-901-1117.  Membership forms can be downloaded from the AWF Web site and included with check payment when ordering the book. 

The book is also available at Alabama Booksmith in Homewood and Capitol Book and News in Montgomery. These independent booksellers will be glad to ship the book as well.

All proceeds from the sale of Gather Up Our Voices go to support the programs and services of the Alabama Writers' Forum.

ORDER NOW...

 

Alabama Writers' Conclave annual meeting scheduled for July

R.A. Nelson

R.A. Nelson

The Alabama Writers' Conclave annual meeting is scheduled for July 18-20 at the Four Points Sheraton Capstone on the University of Alabama campus.

Session leaders include poet Bonnie Roberts, fiction writer Jimmy Carl Harris, fiction editor Michael Garrett, journalist Cheryl Wray, and writer-in-residence R.A. Nelson. The Friday night panel includes editors speaking on "How NOT To Get Published: Common Mistakes Writers Make." Contest awards will be announced Sunday.

The Conclave is the oldest continuing writers' organization in the United States. Writers, aspiring writers, and supporters of the writing arts may join. Sharing information, developing ideas, honing skills, and receiving practical advice are hallmarks of the annual meeting.

REGISTER NOW...

 

Anton Haardt receives Nautilus Silver Award

Anton Haardt

Anton Haardt

Montgomery native and New Orleans gallery owner Anton Haardt has received the Nautilus Silver Award for her new book Mose T From A to Z: The Folk Art of Mose Tolliver.  The Nautilus Book Awards is a national competition in twenty-four categories that celebrates literary contributions to positive social change, spiritual growth, conscious living, wellness, and responsible leadership. Haardt's book placed in the Art Genre category.

The contest recognizes the contribution of independent presses and self-published books that bring new ideas to the marketplace, similar to the manner in which independent filmmakers have reshaped the film industry, according to Ellen Reid, the publisher and book marketing expert who originated the contest. 

An early Mose T admirer, Haardt began buying, reselling, and getting Tolliver's work noticed by dealers. "Mose and I became very close friends," she told the New Orleans publication Gambit Weekly. "I'd give all the money from the sales to Mose, and he would give me two paintings in return."

Tolliver's paintings hang in museum collections at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

LEARN MORE...

 

AHF to co-sponsor Humanities Leadership Summit

Colleen Jennings-Roggensack

Colleen Jennings-Roggensack

The Alabama Humanities Foundation and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University are co-sponsoring Alabama's first humanities conference on technology at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham, September 14-15. Face the Future Humanities Leadership Summit: Humanities and Technology in the 21st Century will convene Alabama's literary, cultural, historical, art, and educational organizations to explore new possibilities through technology and build relationships for future partnerships.

The conference will feature keynote speakers Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Executive Director for Public and Cultural Events at Arizona State University, and Jamil S. Zainaldin, President of the Georgia Humanities Council.  Jennings-Roggensack  has extensive experience as an arts advocate, serving as a former presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts and on many grant-making and advisory panels nationwide for more than twenty-nine years.  Zainaldin, the former president of the Washington-based Federation of State Humanities Councils, has spearheaded the development of an online state encyclopedia in Georgia.

Other sessions will be led by professional experts and futurists in technology. A roundtable exchange and discussion sessions on technology and education, development, and communications/promotion will follow the keynote presentations.  The Summit will culminate with Alabama Governor Bob Riley as the keynote speaker for the Alabama Humanities Awards Luncheon and the public launch of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama on Monday, September 15.

Contact Susan Perry, Alabama Humanities Foundation, at 205-558-3993 or sperry@...  for further information.

ONLINE REGISTRATION, PROGRAM, & SCHEDULE...

 

June-July book reviews offer readers the best in poetry, fiction, and children's literature

June reviews offer insights into fiction by Gin Phillips, Frank Turner Hollon, and Homer Hickam; children's verse by Sue Brannan Walker and Charles Ghinga; and poetry by Ecuadorian poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, translated by Steven Ford Brown.

July promises reviews of new work by Phyllis Barrett, Michael Martone, and Howard Bahr.  Gulf Coast favorite Frye Gaillard returns with a book on the devastation Hurricane Katrina wreaked in South Mobile County.  Photographer Sheila Hagler and writer/educator Peggy Denniston also add insight to this book.

Each month First Draft Reviews Online features reviews of books by Alabama authors, books about our state, and books by local publishers.  Each review offers a Web link to authors, publishers, and reviewers when available.  The page also features a searchable archive to benefit readers, students, and scholars.

Simply click Book Reviews on the AWF Web site.

JUNE-JULY REVIEWS...

 

Spring First Draft now posted online

Visit 2008 Harper Lee Award winner Rebecca Gilman with Gin Phillips, explore an elegiac approach to race relations with Jake Adam York, and learn the art of the book review with Don Noble-all in the Spring 2008 issue of First Draft.  This issue also offers features on imaginative fiction, historical novels, and arts education in correctional institutions by writers Kirk Curnutt, Julia Oliver, and Kyes Stevens.

In addition to the Board Member's Page and From the Executive Director's Journal, the spring First Draft introduces a new column-Greetings, Salutations, and Goodwill.

This page invites our members, associates, and readers to correspond with us and others.  Let the editorial staff know what you're thinking about our magazine, our Web site, our e-newsletter, or the benefits of membership in the Alabama Writers' Forum.

In the meantime, browse ten years and twenty-nine issues of First Draft online.  Read interviews with Harper Lee Award Winners, essays by some of the country's most notable writers, and reviews of books that have become literary treasures.

READ FIRST DRAFT...

 

Alabama Arts Radio Series brings the arts home

Each week, staff members of the Alabama State Council on the Arts visit with Alabama writers, musicians, visual artists, and other individuals who contribute to the state's rich artistic traditions.  Recent interviews include Jake Adam York, Kate Gale, and Richard Goodman.

The radio series airs each Tuesday, 7-7:30 p.m. on the Troy University Public Radio Network. The broadcast is also streamed live and archived on the Web.

LISTEN HERE...

 

Support the Arts license plate funds arts education programs

Proceeds from the sale of the Alabama Support the Arts license plate are used to fund a variety of school and community projects, including the 2008 Alabama Book Festival Teacher Workshop and other arts education projects. Consider buying one the next time you renew your auto plate, or exchange your current plate for one of the Support the Arts plates at your county Probate Judge's Office. Help support all Alabama arts education projects!

LEARN MORE...

 

Post your literary arts events on the AWF Web site

The Scrolling Calendar on the AWF homepage features upcoming in-state readings, conferences, book signings, and more.  To publicize your upcoming event, simply click "Submit your event" then complete and submit the form.

The Announcements page features nationwide publication opportunities, contests, conferences, retreats, and other items of interest to the literary community.  To list your announcement, simply click the "Announcements" tab and then "Submit your announcement."

SUBMIT YOUR EVENT...

 

Upcoming Literary Events

Daniel Wallace

Daniel Wallace

June 26, noon-4 p.m., Emerging Arts Leaders of Alabama Creative Conversation, UAB Alys Stephens Center's Abroms Patrons Lounge, Birmingham, emergingartsleaders@...

June 26, 7 p.m., Summer Sumpthin' with Carolyn Haines and Kirk Curnutt, Wetumpka Civic Center, http://www.wetumpkalibrary.com/

June 28, 7 p.m., Open Mic with Matt Layne, Greencup Books, Birmingham, http://www.greencupbooks.org/

July 18-20, Alabama Writers' Conclave Annual Meeting, Four Points Sheraton Capstone, University of Alabama Campus, http://www.alabamawritersconclave.org/

July 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Humanities Summit Pre-conference: Roundtable Technology, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, http://www.ahf.net/

July 31, 6 p.m., Daniel Wallace Celebration, Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County, http://www.anniston.lib.al.us/

MORE READINGS, SIGNINGS, & BOOKMARK...

 

Submit your literary news as easy as 1-2-3

Submit your news to the Alabama Writers' Forum Literary News monthly e-newsletter.  Simply e-mail: 1) two-five paragraphs in an editable format such as Word or Rich Text Format; 2) a digital graphic such as a photo or logo in JPEG or GIF format with an RGB or Indexed color palette (we can not accept CMYK files); and 3) a Web link to your complete story or Web site. Send your information to gambledanny@... or phone 205-665-7986.  Please include your name, e-mail address, and telephone number. Deadline: 20th of each month.

 

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#3068 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:03 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 24-25 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

AND NOW THE NEWS...

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

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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

================


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

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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

**June 26, 7 p.m., Summer Sumpthin' with Carolyn Haines and Kirk Curnutt
Wetumpka Civic Center, http://www.wetumpkalibrary.com/

**July 18-20, Alabama Writers' Conclave Annual Meeting
Four Points Sheraton Capstone, University of Alabama Campus
http://www.alabamawritersconclave.org/

**July 31, 6 p.m., Daniel Wallace Celebration
Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County
http://www.anniston.lib.al.us/



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

**Paul Bolden was true hero of World War II [Medal of Honor winner from Madison]
http://tinyurl.com/3jn357
Huntsville Times 25 June 2008

**Mayor Larry Langford proposes renaming Birmingham International Airport for Fred Shuttlesworth
Fred Shuttlesworth International Airport would honor icon, black leaders say
http://tinyurl.com/3qr3s5
Birmingham News 25 June 2008

**A brief history of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
http://tinyurl.com/57la3e
Birmingham News 25 June 2008

**'It's just wrong'
Loved ones deal with vandalism of memorials
http://tinyurl.com/6bwjpv
Florence Times-Daily 25 June 2008

**State stamp has coastal flair
http://tinyurl.com/5gkr7h
Montgomery Advertiser 25 June 2008

**Other Views: State has rich aerospace history
http://tinyurl.com/5td8en
Brewton Standard 25 June 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY
Boycott fought gerrymandering
http://tinyurl.com/5l95wk
Montgomery Advertiser 25 June 2008

**b. 06-24-1910 - Cootie Williams - Mobile, AL - d. 9-14-1985 jazz trumpet player: "Jubilee" [radio show]
http://lists.oldradio.net/
old.time.radio Digest V2008 Issue #158

**Pre-history 'Big Apple' Museum Opens in Spring [at Moundville]
http://tinyurl.com/5lmkqu
Blackbelt Gazette 24 June 2008

**Antiques from the Alabama Theatre attic find a home in the next-door Hill Arts Center
http://tinyurl.com/3hlo4n
Birmingham News 24 June 2008

**Unveiling of Alabama's State Stamp Begins New Postal Service Series
http://tinyurl.com/6dqxzt
WSFA-TV [Montgomery] 24 June 2008

**[Baldwin Co. Heritage]Museum opens History Walk
http://tinyurl.com/447bw2
Mobile Press-Register 24 June 2008

**BREAKING NEWS: Portion of McCord oak falls
http://tinyurl.com/6ye9dh
Sand Mountain Reporter 24 June 2008

**Portion of Albertville's famed McCord oak falls
http://tinyurl.com/6n5t7m
Tuscaloosa News 24 June 2008

**Riley unveils Alabama's new state flag stamp
http://tinyurl.com/6yl46m
Tuscaloosa News 24 June 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY
Harvard honors Tuskegee leader [Booker T. Washington]
http://tinyurl.com/42327a
Montgomery Advertiser 24 June 2008

**The future of Alabama's history
http://tinyurl.com/4zqnlw
Montgomery Advertiser 24 June 2008

**1896 June 24- Booker T. Washington is the first African American to
     receive an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard University.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html


**1868 June 25: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina are re-admitted to the Union.

1842 June 24: Ambrose Bierce, cynic [and author of The Devil’s Dictionary, among many other works, is born.]
[During and just after the Civil War, Bierce spent time in Alabama and one of his most famous stories, “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” is set in north Alabama.]

1986 June 24: Disputed Alabama Democratic runoff for Governor throws the election to Guy Hunt first Republican in 112 years.
FROM: Poor Gabriel’s Almanac poorgabriel@...

**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 25: http://tinyurl.com/3kx44t
June 24: http://tinyurl.com/3nnfvt
Mobile Press-Register

**Marengo [County] Sports Hall of Fame
http://tinyurl.com/6ajn5t
Blackbelt Gazette 18 June 2008


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

**Developers want tax breaks for state's movie industry
$10 million bill passed Senate
http://tinyurl.com/6glgdk
Birmingham News 24 June 2008

**[Debra Ann] Elliot publishes compilation of poems
http://tinyurl.com/5hotb6
Shelby County Reporter 24 June 2008



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

**Noted Tuscaloosa geologist dies at 88 [Philip LaMoreaux]
http://tinyurl.com/5ljok3
Tuscaloosa News 25 June 2008

**Alice Thomas 'knew everything' about county history
http://tinyurl.com/67wzvu
Huntsville Times 24 June 2008


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

**Your Town Alabama
http://yourtownalabama.org/

**Magic City Flickr Group
http://www.flickr.com/groups/magic_city

**Heart of the City: Vulcanizing [profile of Birmingham]
http://www.delta-sky.com/2008_05/heartofthecity/
Delta Sky Magazine May 2008

**Travel: Birmingham, AL 
Think outside the grits: From under the weight of its industrial past, Birmingham is lifting its head.
http://tinyurl.com/3gwabk
Time Out New York Issue 655: Apr 16–22, 2008

**AU student-led art projects benefit local rural community [Russell Co.]
http://www.ocm.auburn.edu/newsmakers/hurtsboro_art/
AU Newsmakers 29 May 2008

**Former AU dean of nursing [Mary Woody] inducted into Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
http://wireeagle.auburn.edu/news/348
AU Wire Eagle 20 May 2008




================
**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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@...

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#3069 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:05 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 26-27 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

AND NOW THE NEWS...

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

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http://www.topix.net/

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

================


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

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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

**Storyteller to spin rural yarns at Bluff [Dolores Hydock, July 5]
http://tinyurl.com/6rrb7e
Huntsville Times 26 June 2008

**ArchiTreats lectures continue at department of archives [next one July 17]
http://tinyurl.com/629faz
Montgomery Advertiser 26 June 2008

**July 27, 11 a.m.
Bookmark with Ace Atkins
Alabama Public Television
Don Noble interviews Ace Atkins. Atkins worked as a crime reporter for the Tampa Tribune, where he earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a series of articles about the unsolved murder of a Tampa socialite in 1956. Wicked City, an account of the crime-ridden Phenix City of the 1950's, is his sixth novel. See Web site for more information.
Contact: Wendy Reed wreed@...   
http://www.alabamatv.org/bookmark/

**Oct 8, noon
Brown Bag Lunch Series: Gov. John Patterson & Warren Trest
B.B. Comer Memorial Library
Join Gov. John Patterson and Warren Trest for a discussion about the life and career of Gov. Patterson in connection with publication of Nobody But the People. Booksigning to follow. See Web site for more information.
314 North Broadway Avenue
Sylacauga, AL 35150
Contact: Shirley K. Spears sspears@...
256-249-0961
http://www.sylacauga.net/library 
   

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

**Eve's Leaves closing after 41 years
Mountain Brook dress shop owners retiring
http://tinyurl.com/5rgy65
Birmingham News 27 June 2008

**1880 June 27: Helen Keller, blind-deaf author-lecturer [is born.]
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**Birmingham International Airport directors favor name change to honor Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
http://tinyurl.com/4wt45z
Birmingham News 26 June 2008

**Volunteers improve Ivy Green grounds in time for festival
http://tinyurl.com/5lnxml
Florence Times-Daily 26 June 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY
Alabamian [Joe Louis] became boxing champion
http://tinyurl.com/5rkebf
Montgomery Advertiser 26 June 2008

**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 27: http://tinyurl.com/6hk7gq 
June 26: http://tinyurl.com/5fle8t
Mobile Press-Register


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

**Randy Owen to release memoirs
http://tinyurl.com/66u9qf
Florence Times-Daily 27 June 2008

**Artist [Nicolosi] donates [Helen] Keller portrait
http://tinyurl.com/679cga
Florence Times-Daily 27 June 2008

**Tuskegee native [Kathy Chavers] releases children's book
http://tinyurl.com/6j6asn
Tuskegee News 26 June 2008

**Arnold Anderson will exhibit his paintings at Renaissance Theater
[Exhibit is entitled “Reflections of Lincoln Village 1944-1958”; Lincoln Mill closed in the 1950s]
http://tinyurl.com/5af35m
Huntsville Times 26 June 2008

**[Pritchard native] Dannell Hunter seeks to encourage with new play
http://tinyurl.com/6mxpgn
Mobile Press-Register 26 June 2008

**Alabama storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham regales with tips, tales
http://tinyurl.com/4t3lt6
Birmingham News 26 June 2008

**[Alabama] Couple ties the knot on NBC 'Today' show
http://tinyurl.com/5rzpqn
Montgomery Advertiser 26 June 2008


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

**Songwriter Edward Struzick, 57, dies at his home
http://tinyurl.com/6xrxed
Florence Times-Daily 27 June 2008

**City's first full-time mayor dies [Sheffield's Renald Breazeale]
http://tinyurl.com/5wzwcp
Florence Times-Daily 27 June 2008

**Tuskegee Airman 'A-Train' passes [Charles Dryden]
http://tinyurl.com/6ktser
Tuskegee News 26 June 2008

**[Former county commissioner James Roy] Harrell remembered as 'great guy, good friend'
http://tinyurl.com/6bofoc
Florence Times-Daily 26 June 2008


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

**[Union Hill] Cemetery Preserves Shades Valley History, Needs Volunteer Help
http://tinyurl.com/3htezb
NBC13.com 11 June 2008

**North Alabama Conference UMC Archives
http://www.bsc.edu/bsclibrary/tools/special%5Fcollections/nacpage.htm

**Fort Mims Restoration Association
http://fortmims.org/




================
**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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


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#3070 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:32 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 26-30 June & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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

AND NOW THE NEWS...

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

http://news.google.com/

http://www.topix.net/

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

================


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

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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

**Landmark Park hosts Heritage Forums [on state and local history; begins July 6]
http://tinyurl.com/5opxnf
Dothan Eagle 29 June 2008



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

**Castleberry celebrates restored school
http://tinyurl.com/6ry899
Mobile Press-Register 30 June 2008

**Restoring memories
More than 35 years after a local drag racing champion [Danny Cummins] parked his race car, his lifelong friend pulled it out of storage and restored it to its original splendor
http://tinyurl.com/457rzv
Mobile Press-Register 30 June 2008

**History is a gift from man who lived it [Joseph Glover]
http://tinyurl.com/4326kp
Montgomery Advertiser 30 June 2008

**UA gets closer to buying Bryce
http://tinyurl.com/4f8aad
Tuscaloosa News 30 June 2008

**Book focuses on different side of [George] Wallace
http://tinyurl.com/3ucc3x
Tuscaloosa News 29 June 2008

**Dauphin Island offers sand, surf, historic turf
http://tinyurl.com/3jnsor
Montgomery Advertiser 29 June 2008

**Shoe repair shop [operating since 1953] in hands of new generation
http://tinyurl.com/3s84sl
Tuscaloosa News 29 June 2008

**Legacy, history of civil rights icon Fred Shuttlesworth
http://tinyurl.com/5kepm6
Birmingham News 29 June 2008

**New historical marker unveiled at CCTS [Chilton Co. Training School]
http://tinyurl.com/4w4tnx
Clanton Advertiser 28 June 2008

**Black Heritage Council helping preserve history
http://tinyurl.com/4ynhzt
Selma Times-Journal 28 June 2008

**1986 June 28: Kenneth and Nellie Pike challenge Alabama Democratic runoff win by
          then-Attorney General Charlie Graddick.

2007 June 28:  Frank Thomas hits homerun #500.
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@...

**1997 June 28- Mike Tyson "sets a new standard for bizarre behavior" in
        the heavyweight boxing championship bout with [Ala. native] Evander
        Holyfield at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada,
        when he bites off a one-inch chunk of Holyfield's ear in
        the third round.  Tyson is disqualified, and Holyfield is
        spirited away to a local hospital, where the piece of his
        ear is re-attached after being located on the canvas of
        the ring.
FROM: Today in Black History
 http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html


**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
June 30: http://tinyurl.com/3non4f
June 29: http://tinyurl.com/3kf5rm 
June 28: http://tinyurl.com/3svx7n
Mobile Press-Register

**Fingers on Gadsden [Emma Sansom] monument replaced again
http://tinyurl.com/3wknth
Tuscaloosa News 27 June 2008

**Preservation forum begins at First Baptist
http://tinyurl.com/6fsnjy
Selma Times-Journal 27 June 2008

**b. 06-27-1880 - Helen Keller - Tuscumbia, AL - d. 6-1-1968
deaf and blind lecturer: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Meet the Press"
old.time.radio Digest V2008 Issue #161
http://lists.oldradio.net/



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**CULTURE
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**Ever The Twain Shall Meet
[Ala. native Will Stutts and his one-man show as Mark Twain]
http://tinyurl.com/4j6s7s
Birmingham News 29 June 2008

**UA professors study campus tales [Claire Major and Nathaniel Bray]
http://tinyurl.com/4q86rl
Tuscaloosa News 29 June 2008

**Something found
Amid album on loss, Emmylou Harris reconnects with old friend
Birmingham News 29 June 2008 p10G-11G [reprint from Wall Street Journal]

**Project Valkyrie Documentary [filming in Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/3vr85z
CBS42.com 28 June 2008

**Play opening in Birmingham on Saturday to highlight dangers of HIV and AIDS
Ex-councilman [Bert Miller] writes, produces
http://tinyurl.com/4mvp82
Birmingham News 28 June 2008

**[Birmingham band] Wild Sweet Orange plays Letterman tonight
http://tinyurl.com/5yr5ca
Birmingham News blog 27 June 2008

**5 Things To Know About ... The Newboys
[Ala. band from the 1980s that reunited for one conert]
http://tinyurl.com/4zvpnn
Birmingham News blog 27 June 2008

**Blind Boys of Alabama battling
http://tinyurl.com/5ltjd5
San Francisco Chronicle 27 June 2008

**Visual Arts Gallery presents student [Wonderland Art] guild works
http://main.uab.edu/Sites/reporter/47664/
UAB eReporter 27 June 2008

**Balthrop, Alabama townsfolk coming
[Fictional place used by songwriting siblings Lauren and Pascal
Balthrop]
http://tinyurl.com/6fuj2k
Huntsville Times 26 June 2008

**[Troy] Bellamy is a collector of anything and everything
http://tinyurl.com/3hky7c
Gadsden Times 26 June 2008

**Shave and a haircut
The art behind Art’s Old Fashioned Barber Shop
http://tinyurl.com/3ljgr6
Birmingham Weekly 26 June 2008


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**DEATHS
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**Clarke Stallworth, longtime Alabama newspaperman, dies at 82
http://tinyurl.com/4pnv8y
Birmingham News 28 June 2008

**Journalist Clarke J. Stallworth dead at 82
http://tinyurl.com/5354sf
Tuscaloosa News 27 June 2008


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**BONUS MATERIAL
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**Roebuck Springs Historic Preservation Society
http://www.roebucksprings.org/index.cfm

**Craig T. Sheldon, Ned Jenkins and Gregory A Waselkov. "French
Habitations at the Alabama Post, ca. 1720-1763"  In: "Dreams of the Americas: Overview of New France
Archaeology". Association Des Archeologues Du Quebec, Quebec 2008.

**Title: Call for Contributors: Edited Collection on Masculinity in
      the American South
   Date: 2008-07-18
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      South, and on any time period from colonial to the present.
      Please email us with a one-page abstract and CV by 18th July
      2008.
   Contact: L.J.Plath@...
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   Announcement ID: 162942
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**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
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**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

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**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
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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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ADAH News

July 2008

 

 

 


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The Alabama Department of Archives and History will be closed on Friday, July 4 and Saturday, July 5

 

 

Second Saturday Workshops Learn about MAPS

Saturday, July 12 

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How do you find obscure small towns and communities in Alabama that no longer exist?  How large was Montgomery County originally?  What does "Township 3 North, Range 3 East" mean on a land deed, and where is it?  These questions and more can be answered using map resources at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

 

Join us at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 12, to learn about these unique  resources.  Archivist Cynthia Luckie will describe the extent of the map collection, highlight treasures in the collection, and explain how these can aid genealogical research.

 

Click here for more information.

 

 

 

World War I Symposium

 

July 25: Teacher Workshops at ADAH

Learn about World War I in Alabama, incorporate primary sources in the classroom, tour WWI sites in Montgomery.

Reception at Fitzgerald Museum.

 

July 26: Public Symposium at Troy University Montgomery

Lectures on Alabama's role in World War I, film screening, and tours of WWI sites.

 

 

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'Bonus' ArchiTreats: Food For Thought

 

Thursday, July 10th  

 

Rheta Grimsley Johnson will discuss her new book, Poor Man's Provence

 

Poor Man's ProvenceOne of America's favorite newspaper columnists, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, will return to her Montgomery roots for the next ArchiTreats: Food for Thought program. This 'bonus' ArchiTreats will be held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History on Thursday, July 10th, at 12 noon.

 

Ms. Johnson will share highlights from her recently published book, Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana. Her presentation will provide a personal perspective of Louisiana by a transplanted Alabamian. Copies will be available for purchase from NewSouth Books.

 

 

ArchiTreats: Food for Thought 

 

Thursday, July 17

 

"Lee's Alabama Boys at the Battle of Chancellorsville" by Ben Severance

 

Lee's BoyCivil War historians generally agree that the Battle of Chancellorsville was General Robert E. Lee's military masterpiece.  Between May 1 and 4, 1863, Lee outmaneuvered and soundly defeated Union forces.  Contributing greatly to this outcome was the performance of a dozen regiments of Alabama infantrymen. From spearheading Stonewall Jackson's famous flank attack on May 2, to repelling a powerful Union counterattack on May 3, Alabamians played a major role in the battle's most critical phases.  For Lee's "Alabama Boys," Chancellorsville was one of their finest moments.

 

At the conclusion of the program, ADAH Chief Curator Bob Bradley will show and discuss the flag of the 5th Alabama Infantry. The flag was captured during the Battle of Chancellorsville by the 111th Pennsylvania Volunteers. The flag was returned to the State of Alabama on March 25, 1905.

 

Old Fashioned Game Day 

Saturday, July 12

Croquet 

Are you tired of today's fast paced world and constant bombardment of e-mails and cell phone ringtones?  Does your family need a break from television, video games, computers, and text messages?  Slow down on Saturday, July 12, and visit the Alabama Department of Archives and History from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for old-fashioned games and old-timey fun.

 

A variety of games are planned including croquet, sack races, jacks, marbles, tug of war, horseshoes and more.  Learn about the history of these games and others including the great American pastime of baseball.  Meet the Montgomery Biscuits baseball mascot, Big Mo, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.  Alabama-made Blue Bell ice cream will also be served.  Bring your lunch and cool drinks to picnic on the front lawn of the Archives.

 

 

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#3073 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Mon Jul 7, 2008 3:49 pm
Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 30 June-7 July & Bonus Material 		anesuab2001
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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. Many of the articles listed are printed in other Alabama newspapers; in general, I do not attempt to list all appearances of an article. Some dates given are those when the item was posted to the web site. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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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

**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]
http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx


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

**Moundville's big dig
Archaeologists examine site around museum before planned renovations
http://tinyurl.com/69b2cq
Tuscaloosa News 7 July 2008

**2008 July 7: Alabama country singer Charlie Louvin turns 81.

**[Alabama] Trail recounts quest for civil rights
http://tinyurl.com/6qrty9
Montgomery Advertiser 6 July 2008

**Civil rights movement history project gathers interviews for proposed play
http://tinyurl.com/6f84p8
Birmingham News 5 July 2008

**Black history trail practical idea, for both local tourism, remembrance [in Limestone County]
http://tinyurl.com/5a85gm
Athens News-Courier 5 July 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY: Anti-KKK editorials won Pulitzer [in 1928]
http://tinyurl.com/668bfk
Montgomery Advertiser 3 July 2008

**ALABAMA HISTORY
Mobile man fought yellow fever
http://tinyurl.com/6nw93p
Montgomery Advertiser 2 July 2008

**[Dennis] Murphy uses GPS to document old cemeteries
http://tinyurl.com/5ox6eh
Andalusia Star-News 1 July 2008

**Marengo County announces sports hall of fame
http://tinyurl.com/3p92cf
Tuscaloosa News 1 July 2008

**1990 July 6- Jesse Owens is honored on a stamp issued by the U.S. Postal

     Service. Owens was a four-time Olympic gold medal winner

     in the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin.

 

1881 July 4- Tuskegee Institute opens in Tuskegee, Alabama, with Booker

     T. Washington as its first president.

 

1892 July 4- Arthur George Gaston is born in a log cabin, built by his

     grandparents, former slaves, in Marengo County, Alabama,

     near Demopolis.  He will drop out of school after the

     tenth grade and will become one of the most successful

     proponents of Booker T. Washington's brand of capitalism. 

     A Washington disciple as a child, Gaston became a self-made

     millionaire and one of the richest African American men in

     America in the 1950s.  His many businesses thrived on the

     social separateness legislated by the Jim Crow laws in

     segregated Alabama. Gaston will make it his personal

     mission to urge African Americans to seek "green power," a

     term he remembered Washington using. His quiet role in the

     civil right movement was also noted, saying once that

     African Americans needed a Martin Luther King, Jr. of

     economics to fire them up the way King had about

     integration.  Gaston made the following statement that

     summed up his position on economic empowerment for people

     of color -- "It doesn't do any good to arrive at first-

     class citizenship, if you arrive broke."  He will live to

     the age of 103.

 

1961 July 1- Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

     He will be raised in Willingboro, New Jersey.  He will become

     an athlete who will win 10 Olympic medals (9 golds) during

     his career (1984 to 1996), and 8 World Championship gold

     medals, and 1 bronze (1983 to 1993). He will become only the

     third Olympian to win four consecutive titles in an individual

     event. 

1958 June 30-Alabama courts fined the NAACP $ 100,000 for contempt, for refusing to divulge membership.  The U.S. Supreme Court will reverse the decision.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html


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**CULTURE
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**Tuscaloosa Horns known for solid performances
http://tinyurl.com/5z8jjt
Tuscaloosa News 6 July 2008


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**DEATHS
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**Hundreds pay last respects to Tuskegee Airman [Chuck Dryden]
http://tinyurl.com/65h9sy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2 July 2008

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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
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#3074 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
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Subject: Alabama History/Culture in the News: 30 June-7 July [Part 2] 		anesuab2001
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Feel free to forward this email as desired....

 

AND NOW THE NEWS...

 

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

 

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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.

 

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**COMING EVENTS

 

================

 

 

**Alabama History Community Calendar

http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

 

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama

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**Literary Events in Alabama [via Alabama Writers Forum]

http://www.writersforum.org/calendar/default.aspx

 

 

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**HISTORY

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**Proposal made to move lighthouse [123-year-old Middle Bay Lighthouse]
http://tinyurl.com/556tps
Mobile Press-Register 7 July 2008

**Pistols banned here - in 1908
http://tinyurl.com/5bpozf
Mobile Press-Register 7 July 2008

**"Cousin Cliff" Holman begins final chapter with his true love by his side
http://tinyurl.com/5w7nm9
Birmingham News 6 July 2008

**Kathy Kemp column - Original farmers market in Birmingham hasn't changed much since 1957
http://tinyurl.com/565sqs
Birmingham News 6 July 2008

**Olympic Swim Trials
Auburn’s [Margaret] Heolzer sets world record
Birmingham News 6 July 2008, p7D

**James Dawson's tumultuous legacy [on Huntsville school board]
http://tinyurl.com/5vmlh2
Huntsville Times 6 July 2008

**New brochures are all part of group's 'Hallelujah Trail' [historic churches in north Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/6s9eds
Huntsville Times 4 July 2008

**Holding family obelisks tallest in [Madison City] cemetery
http://tinyurl.com/67pl43
Huntsville Times 2 July 2008

**Change to historic board denied [Mobile’s Architectural Review Board]
http://tinyurl.com/5m3xpb
Mobile Press-Register 2 July 2008

**Historic group against board changes

Council to weigh proposal that would alter how architectural panel is appointed
http://tinyurl.com/5893pg
Mobile Press-Register 1 July 2008

**Yesterday’s News [in Mobile in 1858, 1908, etc.]
July 7: http://tinyurl.com/65y4ms
July 5: http://tinyurl.com/57mvt4
July 4: http://tinyurl.com/5kne8s
July 3: http://tinyurl.com/5v393f
July 1: http://tinyurl.com/5zjmcm

Mobile Press-Register

**Charley Pell keeps fighting in special film [“The Legacy of Charley Pell”]

Birmingham News 30 June 2008, p8C

 

 

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**CULTURE

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**Book by local author honored [Harold Winton]
http://tinyurl.com/5g6j2z
Montgomery Advertiser 7 July 2008

**Clay-area couple create museum-quality wooden works of art [Suzanne & Bud Richards]
http://tinyurl.com/59gh4f
Birmingham News 6 July 2008

**Physician's poem gets AMA nod for publication [Dr. Scott Williams]
http://tinyurl.com/6y2wbe
Huntsville Times 5 July 2008

 

**Film starring [Vivica A.] Fox to be shot in city
http://tinyurl.com/6n3wfj
Birmingham News 3 July 2008

 

 

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**DEATHS

===========

 

**Kenneth Daniel, former ACIPCO president, dies at 94
http://tinyurl.com/6gpy8a
Birmingham News 7 July 2008

 

 

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**BONUS MATERIAL

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**[no entries this issue]

 

 

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**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

 

**Birmingham Rewound

http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

 

**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

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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

 


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#3075 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
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In Our Summer 2008 Issue...

Final Resistance: Creek Removal from the Alabama Homeland
By Christopher D. Haveman
In the short span of just over a decade, Alabama’s Creek people lost their ancestral lands and endured a hazardous trek to the Western frontier. Read more...

Patriotism Over Propriety: Confederate Nurse Kate Cumming
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Kate Cumming’s journal, which chronicles the life of an outspoken female Confederate patriot, survives as a harrowing testament of the devastating conditions faced by Civil War nurses. Read more...

John Augustus Walker and the Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture
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The Oasis: German POWs at Fort McClellan
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Autauga Genealogical Society

Date:  Sunday, July 20

Time:  2 p.m.

Place:   First Baptist Church in downtown Prattville, corner of 3rd St.
and
Washington

Michael A. Breedlove will present the program on researching federal,
state
and local government records for historians, especially genealogists,
that
may be found at the Alabama Dept. of Archives & History.  He will
discuss
federal and state census records, local court and probate records, and
other
sources of information.  Born in Selma, Dr. Breedlove has worked at the
ADAH
for over twenty three years.  He received his BA and MA at UAB and his
Ph.D.
from The American University in Washington, D.C.

Note:  Visitors are always welcome. We regret that we are unable to mail
handouts.

Visit the Autauga Genealogical Society web site at
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#3077 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Wed Jul 9, 2008 1:35 pm
Subject: 2008 Southern Festival of Books author list 		anesuab2001
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FYI…some Alabama authors included… ajwright@...

 

 

The 2008 Southern Festival of Books author list is online!

Posted by: "Humanities Tennessee" tim@...   humtn

Tue Jul 8, 2008 4:59 pm (PDT)

Greetings!

The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word will
mark its 20th annual event October 10-12 in Nashville. We hope you'll be
able to join us for three days of readings, discussions, book signings,
music and food! We have posted the first author list to our website at:
www.humanitiestennessee.org/festival/08authors.php
<http://www.humanitiestennessee.org/festival/08authors.php> . We will
update the list weekly between now and early September.

You can become a fan of the Festival, follow the event and discuss it
with others on our Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-Festival-of-Books/20818038581
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-Festival-of-Books/20818038581> .

We are extremely grateful to the following organizations for their
support: National Endowment for the Humanities, Metro Nashville Arts
Commission, The Tennessean, Frist Foundation, Vanderbilt University,
Ingram Book Company, Dollar General Foundation, Davis-Kidd Booksellers,
and Tennessee Arts Commission. The Festival is a free, non-profit event.
In order to remain free, community support is vital. Please consider a
tax-deductible contribution to Humanities Tennessee. You may give
securely online at give.humanitiestennessee.org
<https://give.humanitiestennessee.org/donate.php> or send your check
to: Humanities Tennessee, 306 Gay Street, Suite 306, Nashville, TN
37201.

Thanks for supporting the Festival and Humanities Tennessee!

Humanities Tennessee Staff


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#3078 From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@...>
Date: Wed Jul 9, 2008 5:01 pm
Subject: Ala. author Bobby Cole in Montgomery,July 10 		anesuab2001
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From: Capitol Book [mailto:capitolbook@...]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:42 AM
To: Capitol Book
Subject: Montgomery's Bobby Cole Here Tomorrow

 

 

The Capitol Book Newsletter

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

 

Montgomery Native Bobby Cole Here Tomorrow!

Writes Thriller Set In The Swamps of Alabama!

 

Many of you know Bobby Cole, a Montgomery native who presently runs Mossy Oak BioLogic, a Mississippi company which develops agricultural products designed to attract wildlife. This they do to improve hunting, which from what we can tell is what Bobby really likes to do, except he also loves to write about hunting and the outdoors, and every hunter and outdoorsman we know who's read his new book The Dummy Line, has gone ga-ga over it.

 

Here's the story: a hunter takes his nine year old, outdoor-loving, tomboy daughter on a camping weekend, where he hopes to introduce her to the joys of turkey hunting, but their trip quickly descends into a frantic flight into Alabama's Noxubee River swamp, as they attempt to elude some really bad guys out to do them great harm.

 

Ask Bobby about the book, and he'll say, "Most of us that have been to a remote camp, hunting or fishing, probably have gotten a little spooked at night. The Dummy Line takes those emotions and twists them around a dangerous, worst-case scenario that could easily happen to any of us. Throw in the drama of having a young child involved and you’ve got a powerful story that grabs you. I had a ball writing it and I know that I’ll never leave my camp doors unlocked again!”

 

 

Please join us TOMORROW, THURSDAY, JULY 10 FROM 4 PM - 5:30 PM, when Bobby will be here to sign copies of The Dummy Line. If you can't make it, just let us know, and we'll be glad to get books signed for you. ($24.95 hardcover)

 

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Cheryl and Thomas Upchurch
Capitol Book & News Company
1140 E. Fairview Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36106
Voice 334.265.1473
www.capitolbook.com


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