NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites are accompanied by
nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in the posted articles.
Some articles in these listings will unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Nov 14, 10 am-4:30 pm
Home For The Holidays
West Regional Branch Mobile Public Library
Annual event to showcase local authors with readings and the opportunity to sell
their books. Along with authors local arts and crafts vendors are included in
the event. See Web site for more information.
5555 Grelot Road
Mobile, AL  36694
Contact: Mobile Writers Guild
mobilewritersguild@...
http://www.mobilewritersguild.org


**Nov 14, noon-4 pm
Open House and Book Signing with Roger Reid
Cypress Gift Shop at Five Rivers Park
Author and naturalist Roger Reid will discuss and sign copies of his young adult
novels Longleaf and Space. See Web site for more information.
30945 Five Rivers Blvd.
Spanish Fort, AL  36527
Contact: Lisa Harrison
334-834-3556
harrison@...
http://www.outdooralabama.com/outdoor-adventures/5rivers/


**Nov 18, noon-1 pm
Christian Writers of Calhoun County Monthly Meeting
Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County
New and established writers welcome. No charge. Topic will be the freshness of
13th century poet Rumi, and how writers can write in a timeless manner. Speaker
George Cox, artist and lecturer. See Web site for more information.
108 E. 10th St.
Anniston, AL  36207
Contact: Sherry Kughn
256-237-2358
skughn@...
http://www.hearttreebooks.com


**[Kathryn Tucker] Windham coming at Christmas time [Dec. 4-5; Brundidge]
http://tinyurl.com/yhtcmnc
Troy Messenger 7 November 2009


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

**Costly projects aim to keep Birmingham school murals from fading into history
http://tinyurl.com/yz7rbkx
Birmingham News blog 9 November 2009

**Supporters' iron will keep Sloss Furnaces' past alive [new book on Sloss]
http://tinyurl.com/y9g5sst
Birmingham News blog 9 November 2009

**Veterans mark D.C. trip at Honor Flight reunion
http://tinyurl.com/yev3f8c
Montgomery Advertiser 9 November 2009

**Selma to Montgomery: Ohio teacher retraces historic 54-mile trek
http://tinyurl.com/yct2zmw
Montgomery Advertiser 9 November 2009

**Looking Back [50, 25, etc., years ago]
http://tinyurl.com/y9drt5x
Tuscaloosa News 9 November 2009

**Streetcar motorman averted tragedy [in 1920]
http://tinyurl.com/yl96doa
Gadsden Times 8 November 2009

**Jackson town [Langston] memorial recalls WWII sacrifices
http://tinyurl.com/yzqf2tp
Huntsville Times 8 November 2009

**Alabama veterans park may have to close if more donations don't come through
http://tinyurl.com/yhbfzuo
Birmingham News blog 8 November 2009

**World War II veteran deserves Purple Heart [Bob Slone]
http://tinyurl.com/y8qg3bj
Montgomery Advertiser 8 November 2009

**Alabama's history of serving country a proud one
http://tinyurl.com/yhvekdk
Shelby County Reporter 8 November 2009

**Foster Auditorium deserves better memorial [editorial]
http://tinyurl.com/ydckh2j
Tuscaloosa News 8 November 2009

**Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame to induct five
http://tinyurl.com/yak2luw
Tuscaloosa News 8 November 2009

**BSC inducts new [Sports] Hall of Fame class
Birmingham News 8 November 2009, p20B

**Frontier Day re-enactors bring history to life [at Fort Toulouse Jackson]
http://tinyurl.com/y8mc7v3
Montgomery Advertiser 7 November 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
November 9: http://tinyurl.com/yzgje2e
November 8: http://tinyurl.com/yktv5hd
November 7: http://tinyurl.com/ykge9h7
Mobile Press-Register

**1965 Nov. 9- Willie Mays is named the National League's Most Valuable
	 Player.

1973 Nov. 6- [Tuscaloosa native] Coleman Young is elected as the first African
American mayor
	 of Detroit, Michigan.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**UA shows design for Foster plaza
Witt: community invited to comment on plans for honoring history
http://tinyurl.com/ylelm5x
Crimson & White [UA] 6 November 2009

**Community input needed for [Foster Auditorium] memorial
http://tinyurl.com/ycq982q
Tuscaloosa News 28 October 2009


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

**[Gene] Stallings updates book after son's death
Another Season' afterword details death of John Mark Stallings
http://tinyurl.com/y9zbgr2
Tuscaloosa News 9 November 2009

**German screenwriter Christoph Silber will show "Good Bye Lenin" at Merrimack
Hall
[Silber is now a Huntsville resident]
http://tinyurl.com/yfa2qs2
Huntsville News blog 8 November 2009

**G-man writes memoir of arresting drama, comedy
Agent [Jack Owens] spent 29 years in Birmingham
http://tinyurl.com/yfw7ukb
Birmingham News blog 7 November 2009

**Alabama 3 make Cardiff music history (again!)
http://tinyurl.com/yfweb65
WalesOnline 5 November 2009

**Session Man
How many people do you know who almost joined The Rolling Stones? That
experience is just one of many that comprise the unusual musical odyssey of
Birmingham guitarist Wayne Perkins.
http://tinyurl.com/yhrufn3
Black & White [Birmingham] 29 October 2009

**African Vision
Outsider artist Joe Minter's African Village
http://tinyurl.com/yl6wy9u
Black & White [Birmingham] 29 October 2009


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**DEATHS
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**[no entries this issue]

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

**Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama
         http://www.CyndisList.com/al.htm ):
* New Links:            2
* Updated Links:        0
* Removed Links:        0
* Total Links:          3304


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

As the administrator of our homeschooling umbrella, I attended a fieldtrip with
35 homeschooled students and parents on Thursday.  I will collect photos from
all who attended and share soon.  The "windshield" survey upon parking in my
designated space was enough to make one see the importance of understanding
history and current agendas as well.  I parked in the second spot alongside the
curb facing the front steps of the Capital Building.  My partner in front and an
accumulating line of 7 other cars behind me.  We waited, wondering which route
to take to enter. The front steps were dotted with people, cameras, and posters.
The NAACP was rallying in regards to the Health Care Bill.  A line of additional
cars pulled in on the opposite side of the curb from us. They seemed to be
joining our fieldtrip... but I did not know who they were.  For the benefit of
our children's safety, I approached the people who erected from the leading
vehicle.  "We are with the Tea-Party", they explained.  "Where are we meeting?" 
I wasn't sure which would be the best learning experience for our children,
entering the building, or watching the collision of these two groups with
opposing views on Health Care. Of course, we entered the building, but
apparently anxiety was obvious to our youth.  We completed the entire tour
dodging political battles and guarding our children from any unexpected acts of
violence that may result.  After completing the tour, my daughter asked our
guide, "Is Mr. Riley going to say hello?"  She was told "No, he is a very busy
man and must not be disturbed so remember to keep quiet."  My daughter held her
tongue from reply, and then approached the security guard at the door as we were
leaving.  "Will you give my poster to Mr. Riley?"  "I made it just for him." 
The security guard complimented her hard work and pulled her aside.  I listened
as he explained that our governor was out of town.  He suggested she take her
poster down the hall as he pointed to another security guard.  "That man will
call the governor's secretary out, and be certain that he receives your poster."
She smiled and hurried down the hall.  The guard down on this end was not as
polite, but did call the secretary.  She presented through the door and
explained that the governor was in a meeting with many other important people. 
My daughter ask if she would make sure Mr. Riley knew that she had made the
poster and that she had memorized the Alabama Creed in honor of her state.  She
was then asked to recite the creed and did so with no mistakes.  She was
presented with a coin from the governor's office.  She proudly displayed this in
front of the others.  My husband asked her what she had learned from the
fieldtrip when we returned home.  "I learned that the governor doesn't like to
be bothered by children and has everyone lie for him... maybe that is why there
was going to be an argument on the steps and we had to sneak passed all the
people to get in."

The Mid-South Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
invites you to join us this Saturday at the Leeds (AL) Depot for a
professional video presentation on the move of Frisco steam locomotive
#4018 from the Fairgrounds to Sloss Furnace.

Mountain Brook Mayor Terry Oden will introduce the program, Mayor Oden
was instrumental in raising funds for the move and saving #4018, which
otherwise would likely have been scrapped on site.  The project was a
remarkable feat of logistics requiring a great deal of teamwork and
coordination.

For those not familiar with Frisco #4018, the USRA  2-8-2 Light
Mikado-type of the "War Baby" class was ordered during World War
I by the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) and built in
October 1919 by the Lima Locomotive Works of Lima, Ohio. No. 4018 was
purchased by the St. Louis—San Francisco Railway ("Frisco")
in 1923, and the "Mike" spent most of its career hauling freight
through the heavily industrialized territory between East Thomas Yard
and Bessemer.

No. 4018's last run took place on February 29, 1952 when the
locomotive was moved to the Fairgrounds over the adjacent Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad (ACL). Over the next 57 years, Frisco employees and groups
of local rail enthusiasts attempted to maintain No. 4018's cosmetic
appearance, but exposure to the elements and lack of security
accelerated the locomotive's deterioration.

In 2008, as the City of Birmingham planned redevelopment of the
fairgrounds area, funds were raised to move the locomotive to a more
secure location. Through the hard work of Mayor Oden and others, the
move to Sloss Furnace took place during the period of February 19 -21,
2009.

Please join us on Saturday, November 14 at 2pm as Mayor Oden chronicles
the successful effort to relocate and preserve this important part of
our local railroad history. For more information, contact Marvin Clemons
at 205-836-3457.

Marvin Clemons
Mid-South Chapter, R&LHS

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites are accompanied by
nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in the posted articles.
Some articles in these listings will unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Monroeville's second Fruitcake Festival features reading of Truman Capote's 'A
Christmas Memory'
[Friday, November 13]
http://tinyurl.com/yjau8jt
Birmingham News blog 10 November 2009

**Citronelle artist chairs Port City Craftsmen Winter Holiday Arts and Craft
Show [Nov. 13-15]
http://tinyurl.com/yc49r6p
Mobile Press-Register 11 November 2009

**Big Band Sounds in the Shoals [November 15]
http://tinyurl.com/yfwb7hy
Florence Times Daily 10 November 2009

**"The Autauga Genealogical Society will meet Sunday, November 15, at 2 p.m. at
the First Baptist Church in downtown Prattville. Last month our program was on
preservation of family or other interesting memorabilia. As a follow-up this
meeting will be a "show and tell".  Attendees are asked to bring a picture,
document or other historical item and tell a brief history about the item. 
These items do not have to be about or from Autauga County. Attendees are also
asked to bring family history information for the Autauga-Prattville Library
family history files.  Perhaps you already have info in the library but it has
since been updated.  You may want to contribute a family group sheet, a family
history report, or copies of probate records. Visitors are always welcome to
attend. Caroline Horton, President"
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alags/


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

**Veteran recalls his ordeal as prisoner in World War II
http://tinyurl.com/yhrwyv7
Mobile Press-Register 11 November 2009

**1976 time capsule opened
Items sealed during U.S. bicentennial in 1976 will be part of Baldwin County's
200th birthday
http://tinyurl.com/y9jjxhj
Mobile Press-Register 11 November 2009

**Montgomery man [Chet Moeller] named one of Navy football's top players of past
50 years
http://tinyurl.com/yhfd59o
Montgomery Advertiser 11 November 2009

**1989 November 11- The Civil Rights Memorial is dedicated in Montgomery,
Alabama.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

This Week in Alabama History
http://tinyurl.com/yfqaetl
Gadsden Messenger 10 November 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
November 11: http://tinyurl.com/yzekuo9
November 10: http://tinyurl.com/yjaya83
Mobile Press-Register

**Moulton family donates historic documents to Calhoun Community College
http://tinyurl.com/yeu42fz
Huntsville Times blog 9 November 2009

**UAB's James Raper Named to Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame
http://tinyurl.com/yzbmucm
UAB Media Relations 3 November 2009

**UAB School of Health Professions Celebrates 40 Years, Honors Alumni
http://tinyurl.com/yldoefs
UAB Media Relations 2 November 2009


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

**Local artists win TV art race [Victoria Antoine and David Messer]
http://tinyurl.com/ykm3aza
Florence Times Daily 10 November 2009

**Student's book opens children's eyes to differences
[Abigail Hardin, _look at me; I am just like you_]
http://tinyurl.com/yfbs4z7
Tuscaloosa News 10 November 2009

**Migration's Impact on The New South, Labor Focus of UAB Professor's Book
[Colin Davis, _Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace Since
1945_]
http://tinyurl.com/yzzezkr
UAB Media Relations 5 November 2009


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

**Pickens Commissioner [Earnest "B.B."] Summerville dies in office
http://tinyurl.com/yj8cztt
Tuscaloosa News 9 November 2009

**Gerald Jack, [Gene] Stallings' right-hand man, dies
http://tinyurl.com/yz9vxm3
Tuscaloosa News 6 November 2009


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

**Tommy Morehead's Alabama Arts Channel on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/H82c3G


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web site blogs are accompanied
by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or sometimes
unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**NOV 13, 8 PM
MONTEVALLO POETRY SLAM
Eclipse Coffee & Books
Poetry slam featuring spoken-word artist Stefan Micko. See Web site for more
information.
1032 Main Street
Montevallo , AL  35115
Contact: Kirk Hardesty
205-665-4234
NiteGlider@...
http://www.eclipsecoffee.com

**Artist Dustin Timbrook will present his wild watercolors at Lowe Mill show
Saturday [Nov. 14]
http://tinyurl.com/yb3lktn
Huntsville Times blog 12 November 2009

**Unitarians to hear Fairhope history [Nov. 16; talk by Frank Laraway]
http://tinyurl.com/yeofo4q
Mobile Press-Register 13 November 2009

**Invitation issued for [W.C.] Handy celebration [Nov. 16]
http://tinyurl.com/yg6ox8l
Florence Times Daily 12 November 2009

**Brown Bag Lunch Program: Invisible Americans: Choctaw Indians in Alabama [Nov.
18]
Join us as Jackie Matte, independent scholar and member of the Alabama
Humanities Foundation speaker's bureau discusses the history of the Alabama
Choctow Indians. Ms. Matte is the author of _The History of Washington County:
The First County in Alabama_ and _They Say the Wind is Red: the Alabama Choctaw
Lost in their Own Land_. She also co-authored, with Virginia Van der Veer
Hamilton, _Seeing Historic Alabama: Fifteen Guided Tours_. Wednesday, November
18, noon. Feed your body and mind at Birmingham Public Library's Brown Bag Lunch
Programs. You bring the lunch and we'll bring the drinks. Wednesdays at noon in
the Arrington Auditorium located on the 3rd floor of the Linn-Henley Research
Library, 2100 Park Place.
http://tinyurl.com/yhxhkuv

**NOV 18, NOON-1 PM
CHRISTIAN WRITERS OF CALHOUN COUNTY MONTHLY MEETING
Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County
New and established writers welcome. No charge. Topic will be the freshness of
13th century poet Rumi, and how writers can write in a timeless manner. Speaker
George Cox, artist and lecturer. See Web site for more information.
108 E. 10th St.
Anniston, AL  36207
Contact: Sherry Kughn
256-237-2358
skughn@...
http://www.hearttreebooks.com


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

**Rare collection of Maria Howard Weeden works come back to Huntsville
http://tinyurl.com/ycztmxq
Huntsville Times blog 13 November 2009

**Help document city's rapid change
[Coming space museum] Exhibit needs items to show cotton-to-rockets makeover
http://tinyurl.com/y9dm5qw
Huntsville Times 13 November 2009

**Space museum seeking artifacts from Huntsville's textiles era
http://tinyurl.com/yepg9bw
Huntsville Times blog 13 November 2009

**Stillman's first home
Alumni celebrate renovated structure at homecoming
http://tinyurl.com/yh79ppo
Tuscaloosa News 13 November 2009

**Fayette turns old post office [built in 1936] into new City Hall
http://tinyurl.com/ygrze9n
Tuscaloosa News 13 November 2009

**'In Cold Blood' murders still haunt Kansas town 50 years later
http://tinyurl.com/yd83pce
Mobile Press-Register blog 13 November 2009

**Cave Street school may be used for apartments
[Building in Tuscumbia is 80 years old]
http://tinyurl.com/yzlz2gx
Florence Times Daily 13 November 2009

**1956 Nov 13- The Supreme Court upholds a lower court decision banning
	 segregation on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama.  The
	 Court establishes grounds for challenging bus segregation
	 in nine states that have violated the 15th Amendment.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**A historic moment for Buffalo Soldiers
Statue raised here on Cavalry Hill, site of camp in 1898-99
http://tinyurl.com/ya6owsf
Huntsville Times 12 November 2009

**The American Village to build $6 million Independence Hall replica
http://tinyurl.com/ye3vxp2
Shelby County Reporter 12 November 2009

**Meteor storm [in 1833] muse behind 'Stars Fell on Alabama'
http://tinyurl.com/y95jzyv
Birmingham News blog 12 November 2009

**[Wescott] Cemetery cleanup much appreciated [letter]
http://tinyurl.com/yeb8ahn
Montgomery Advertiser 12 November 2009

**b. 05-20-1911 - Vet Boswell - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-12-1988
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap Show"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #216
http://lists.oldradio.net/

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
November 13: http://tinyurl.com/y9xbb57
November 12: http://tinyurl.com/y8wtqqq
Mobile Press-Register

**Buffalo Soldier statue moved to final resting place outside Academy for
Academics and Arts
http://tinyurl.com/yfrckx9
Huntsville Times blog 11 November 2009

**Longtime Alabama member writes 100-year history of his home congregation
[Charles Bailey; Grant Street Church of Christ in Decatur]
http://tinyurl.com/ya23nuf
Christian Chronicle 11 November 2009

**Huntsville defense contractor, law firm pledge $160,000 to Madison County
Veterans Memorial
http://tinyurl.com/ylymn6a
Huntsville Times blog 11 November 2009

**b. 11-11-1918 - Elma I. Ellis - Birmingham, AL writer, producer: "We the
People"; "Great Jury Trials"

b. 07-16-1916 - Lionel Baxter - d. 11-11-2000
sportscaster: WAPI Birmingham, Alabama

b. 07-26-1914 - Erskine Hawkins - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-11-1992
bandleader: "Apollo Concerts"; "Big Band Themes on the Air"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #215
http://lists.oldradio.net/


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

**Classically trained musician meets rocker in Trout Fishing in America
[One of two members is Birmingham-born Keith Grimwood]
http://tinyurl.com/yjwn59j
Tuscaloosa News 13 November 2009

**Musician [Cory Taylor Cox] makes his point in song
http://tinyurl.com/ylzd5lt
Florence Times Daily 12 November 2009

**[Mark] Narmore, [Billy] Lawson added to music walk of fame
http://tinyurl.com/yctxof3
Florence Times Daily 12 November 2009

**UAB Professor's Documentary on WWII-Era French Prime Minister Opens in Paris
[Jean Bodon's film is _Leon Blum: For All Mankind_]
http://tinyurl.com/ybss5zh
UAB Media Relations 12 November 2009

**[Mac] McAnally wins CMA award
http://tinyurl.com/ydxgfy6
Florence Times Daily 12 November 2009

**Local comedian [Steve Brown] heads to Bama Theatre tonight for leg of tour
http://tinyurl.com/yc4t8s2
Tuscaloosa News 12 November 2009

**Video Bingo Has Alabamians Yelling Everything But
http://tinyurl.com/yhnzmjg
New York Times 12 November 2009

**Students show off artwork at gallery
'Fame and Shame' exhibition draws crowd, showcases talent
http://tinyurl.com/yccdewx
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 10 November 2009

**Faces and places:
[Author, filmmaker] Dr. Hugh Merrill, communications professor
http://tinyurl.com/y9urjzc
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 10 November 2009


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**DEATHS
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**[no entries this issue]


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

**Recent/Forthcoming Books with Alabama Connections

Madden, Kerry. _Harper Lee: A Twentieth-Century Life_. Viking, 2009
[Biography for young people by a UAB English professor]

McDonough, Jimmy. _Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen_. Viking, March 2010

Reeves, Jacquelyn Proctor. _Wicked North Alabama_. History Press, 2009
[non-fiction]

Sinclair, John. _Sun Ra: Interviews and Essays_. Headpress, 2009
[Book about the legendary Alabama-native jazz musician/composer by a legendary
rock musician]

Smith, Jeffrey K. _The Fighting Little Judge: The Life and Times of George C.
Wallace_. AuthorHouse, 2009
[Fifth book, including three novels, by this physician and Enterprise native]

White, David. _A Man of Character_. BookSurge, 2009 [Novel is third book by this
Alabama author]


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web site blogs are accompanied
by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or sometimes
unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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 [in 2010]
================

**Feb 18-21, Southern Voices, Hoover Public Library,
http://www.southernvoices.info

**Mar 20, 10 am-3 pm, Alabama Bound, Birmingham Public Library,
http://www.alabamabound.org

**Apr 17, 10 am-4 pm, Alabama Book Festival, Old Alabama Town, Montgomery,
http://www.oldalabamatown.com/

**Apr 23, Montevallo Literary Festival, University of Montevallo,
http://www.montevallo.edu/english/MLF/

**Apr 23-24, Slash Pine Poetry Festival, Tuscaloosa,
http://www.slashpinepress.blogspot.com

**Apr 29-May 1, Alabama Writers Symposium, Alabama Southern Community College,
Monroeville, http://www.writerssymposium.org


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

**143 years of worship
First African Baptist Church celebrates its beginnings
http://tinyurl.com/ykqgyrh
Tuscaloosa News 16 November 2009

**[Oakwood] Cemetery tour raises tales of those long gone
http://tinyurl.com/ylde59d
Montgomery Advertiser 16 November 2009

**Montgomery to celebrate its 190-year history along with annual Christmas
parade
http://tinyurl.com/ylpdtb8
Montgomery Advertiser 16 November 2009

**Looking Back [50, 25, etc., years ago]
http://tinyurl.com/yfuxcuk
Tuscaloosa News 16 November 2009

**20 years later: Remembering the devastation of the 1989 tornado
[More stories at http://topics.al.com/tag/tornado/index.html ]
http://tinyurl.com/ylf3z2g
Huntsville Times 15 November 2009

**New Name, New Look for Old Structure
[Former AmSouth building, opened in 1965]
http://tinyurl.com/y98hqvg
Mobile Press-Register 15 November 2009

**Stillman House is a Tuscaloosa landmark [editorial]
http://tinyurl.com/ygq64z5
Tuscaloosa News 15 November 2009

**Rick Bragg keeps stories of Appalachia alive
http://tinyurl.com/yhke699
Tuscaloosa News 15 November 2009

**The blimp’s return [Goodyear blimp first came to Gadsden in 1930s]
http://tinyurl.com/yhbz85g
Gadsden Times 15 November 2009

**Photographer’s methods still being questioned
[Walker Evans, who photographed in Alabama in the 1930s]
http://tinyurl.com/yl74zn2
Tuscaloosa News 15 November 2009

**Life as a 'Describer'
Tide radio announcer [Eli Gold[ details career in book
Birmingham News 15 November 2009, pp 15B, 19B

**The 'Time' Has Come
Collinsville has clock restored; now needs a permanent home
http://tinyurl.com/yfz6lsj
Gadsden Times 14 November 2009

**City to mark 1989 tornado
http://tinyurl.com/y8p87ah
Huntsville Times 14 November 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
November 16: http://tinyurl.com/yaep4sq
November 15: http://tinyurl.com/ydjzcol
November 14: http://tinyurl.com/yk8xsvk
Mobile Press-Register

**2009 November 14: Alabama native Condoleezza Rice is 55.

**Queen City Pool and Bathhouse into a Transportation Museum
http://tinyurl.com/y8fyt7f
Planet Weekly [Tuscaloosa] 13 November 2009


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

**Writing that novel tries team approach
http://tinyurl.com/ye3o2s4
Huntsville Times 16 November 2009

**Without state funding this year, Alabama's school libraries struggle
http://tinyurl.com/ye7tpez
Birmingham News blog 16 November 2009

**Trussville native Katy Montalto drivin' toward Country Music Television video
title
http://tinyurl.com/yj8ht7r
Birmingham News blog 15 November 2009

**Nick Saban, Tommy Tuberville and other SEC coaches join Sandra Bullock on
screen for film 'Blind Side'
http://tinyurl.com/yacr2ss
Birmingham News blog 15 November 2009

**Some [local]video stores manage to hang on in a declining industry
http://tinyurl.com/ykr6chp
Florence Times Daily 15 November 2009

**Tuscaloosan featured in documentary [Joel Montgomery ]
Film explores social entrepreneurship — how business can serve the poor
http://tinyurl.com/yee4u67
Tuscaloosa News 15 November 2009

**Author's wife donates books to Snead State
[Martha Huie donated her collection of art reference books]
http://tinyurl.com/ykphwxd
Huntsville Times 14 November 2009

**Albertville High School Band 'pumped' about selection to Tournament of Roses
Parade
http://tinyurl.com/ylqotx7
Huntsville Times 13 November 2009

**New online magazine [Pavo] to show city's brighter side
Birmingham News 13 November 2009 pp 6D-7D


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

**[no entries this issue]


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

**Pavo Magazine [Birmingham]
http://Pavomag.com


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web site blogs are accompanied
by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or sometimes
unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**NOV 19, 5:30-7:30 PM
FOSTER DICKSON AND CLARK WALKER BOOK SIGNING
Gallery East
Foster Dickson and Clark Walker will sign copies of I Just Make People Up, a
biography and retrospective of Walker's life and art. See Web site for more
information.
Shoppes at Eastchase
Montgomery, AL  36117
Contact: Foster Dickson
334-356-3900
foster.dickson@...
http://www.fosterdickson.com


**Author to read excerpts of book [Nov. 20]
[Mary Lois Timbes' _The Fair Hope of Heaven: A Hundred Years After Utopia_]
http://tinyurl.com/yhchjqg
Mobile Press-Register 18 November 2009


**Theatre Tuscaloosa to hold roundtable discussion [Nov. 20-21; for h.s.
students]
http://tinyurl.com/yjz4kzs
Tuscaloosa News 17 November 2009

**Quick Trip: Wetumpka [Nov. 21; Cookbook Fair and Tasting; Trinity Episcopal
Church]
Find a cookbook, lots to satisfy your appetite [info: 334-567-0158]
Birmingham News 15 November 2009, p 12E


**Join us for all the fun at the 4th Annual Local Authors Expo!
Meet the authors, buy copies of their books, and have books autographed.
Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5, 2009.
11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. at the Central Library
The Expo is sponsored by the Friends of the Birmingham Public Library.
http://www.bplonline.org/


**[Madison] Arts Council seeking grant applications [deadline 01/16/2010]
http://tinyurl.com/yb32ow3
Huntsville Times 18 November 2009


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

**Leaving a lifetime of memories
[Jimmy Dunn and his family's 68-year car dealership in Roanoke]
http://tinyurl.com/y89x8e4
Randolph Leader 18 November 2009

**Textile Room at [Randolph Co. Historical] museum is complete
http://tinyurl.com/ydsxvpa
Randolph Leader 18 November 2009

**True's book recalls early years in 'primitive' school here
[_My Life from Wagons to Rockets_  by Gladys McFarlen True]
http://tinyurl.com/yg4dbs3
Huntsville Times 18 November 2009

**Foley mural [depicting Battle of Mobile Bay] case heads to trial
Judge denies motion to return [68-year old] painting to former mayor
http://tinyurl.com/ygm49j5
Mobile Press-Register 18 November 2009

**Construction of GulfQuest maritime museum
http://tinyurl.com/yf2z3ar
Mobile Press-Register 18 November 2009

**'Precious' director Lee Daniels in negotiations to direct 'Selma,' film about
civil rights movement
http://tinyurl.com/yfg7md2
Birmingham News blog 18 November 2009

**USA Archives Filled With Hidden Jewels
http://tinyurl.com/yl6qudb
Lagniappe [Mobile] 17 November 2009

**Winter 2010 Dates Set for Kander and Ebb's New Musical, 'The Scottsboro Boys'
http://tinyurl.com/yksrh69
New York Times Arts Beat blog 17 November 2009

**Civil rights era photographers lauded
http://tinyurl.com/yc8ghxm
Birmingham News blog 17 November 2009

**'Labor of love': Pintlala Elementary's past could save its future
http://tinyurl.com/yg7mdls
Montgomery Advertiser 17 November 2009

**Congregation remembers rich Civil Rights history
http://tinyurl.com/yl67x9x
Tuscaloosa News 17 November 2009

**This Week in Alabama History
http://tinyurl.com/y9yzo2l
Gadsden Messenger 17 November 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
November 18: http://tinyurl.com/ybvkluq
November 17: http://tinyurl.com/yb2zusz
Mobile Press-Register

**b. 11-16-1873 - W. C. Handy - Florence, AL - d. 3-28-1958 jazz trumpeter,
composer: "Cavalcade of Music";"Freedom's People"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #218
http://lists.oldradio.net/

**American Village to partner with county on several projects
http://tinyurl.com/y9jrafr
Shelby County Reporter 13 November 2009

**b. 11-13-1932 - Buddy Killen - Florence, AL - d. 11-1-2006 bass player: "Grand
Ole Opry"; "March of Dimes"

b. 09-01-1904 - Johnny Mack Brown - Dothan, AL - d. 11-14-1974
actor: "Straight Arrow Pow Wow"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #217
http://lists.oldradio.net/

** Preserving the city's heritage [downtown Huntsville; editorial]
http://tinyurl.com/y8a7xa8
Huntsville Times 21 October 2009


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

**Mobilian Kathryn Hire Talks About Her Time Outside of Earth's Stratosphere
http://tinyurl.com/ygtddjh
Lagniappe [Mobile] 17 November 2009

**Joe Keracher: a musical character
http://tinyurl.com/ybbt5kv
Gadsden Messenger 17 November 2009

**Local students win Montevallo writing awards
http://tinyurl.com/ylznu69
Alabaster Reporter 17 November 2009

**Public Health students release cookbook
http://tinyurl.com/ydwnpxe
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 17 November 2009

**Altoona artist [Judy] Ritter wants to captivate the mind's eye
http://tinyurl.com/yl3wleg
Gadsden Times 16 November 2009

**Gadsden native [Vickey Moore] recognized as breakout chef in national
publication
http://tinyurl.com/yjekc37
Gadsden Times 15 November 2009

**East End Enclave
East Lake is the site of a budding revitalization.
http://tinyurl.com/ygre9lk
Black & White [Birmingham] 12 November 2009

**Creating an ArtScape
http://tinyurl.com/y8d8y49
Birmingham Weekly 11 November 2009


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

**Birmingham civil rights leader, long-time barber James Armstrong dies
http://tinyurl.com/ylg43uy
Birmingham News blog 18 November 2009

**Ray Browne, 87, Founder of Pop-Culture Studies, Dies
[Browne was an Alabama native; Wikipedia entry at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Browne ]
http://tinyurl.com/ygp5czv
New York Times 28 October 2009

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

**Nat King Cole, "Caravan" [video]
http://www.jazzonthetube.com/page/62.html

**Zelda Fitzgerald [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Fitzgerald


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web site blogs are accompanied
by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or sometimes
unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Author to sign books [Nov. 22]
"Fairhope's Page & Palette bookstore will host author Mary Lois Timbes on Nov.
22 at 2 p.m. signing copies of "The Fair Hope of Heaven, A Hundred Years After
Utopia," of which a paperback edition was recently published."
http://tinyurl.com/yfnef62
Mobile Press-Register 20 November 2009


**Alabama Craft: Innovation
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 8:00PM on Alabama Public Television IQ
[More on APT's IQ Family Learning Channel at http://www.aptv.org/IQ/index.asp ]
This original APT documentary samples the works, visions and philosophies of
seven Alabama artists. The camera follows the artists, exploring the creative
process from conception through creation. How does the indigenous social,
cultural, historical and physical environment of Alabama infuse the art of these
masters? (Part 2 of 2)
http://tinyurl.com/yz3rv7l


**BookTalk to discuss The Well and the Mine Dec. 1
The UAB BookTalk book club will discuss The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
[First novel by this Alabama author]. The discussion will be led by Assistant
Professor Ann Hoff. BookTalk is free and open to the public. Information and a
list of upcoming books is online at www.uab.edu/english/events/uab-booktalk


**Ticket to Ride: The Rosa Parks Story
Montgomery; Dec 1
Dramatic presentation by Trenton, N.J., actress Doreen Griffin.
Free. 7 p.m., Rosa Parks Library and Museum Auditorium. 334-241-8615
http://tinyurl.com/yk4dw24


**The December issue of Southern Living magazine has a special 8-page feature
article on the historic town of Mooresville located close to Huntsville. It has
retained the look of a 19th century village complete with historic homes and
buildings, white picket fences and tree lined streets. Don't miss the free
Mooresville Yuletide Tour on December 6th from 1-4 pm. For more information,
call 256-355-2683 or 256-353-3628
http://www.mooresvillealabama.com/


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

**Historian Harvey Jackson covers roads' effect on towns
http://tinyurl.com/ylgv46t
Montgomery Advertiser 20 November 2009

**[UNA] Film archives get items from Golden Age
[See also http://tinyurl.com/yh2pbmu ]
http://tinyurl.com/ygche6a
Florence Times Daily 20 November 2009

**Declining enrollment could mean end for Paint Rock Valley School [built in
1935]
http://tinyurl.com/ylctckd
Huntsville Times blog 19 November 2009

**Book set in 1950s Montgomery wins Youth Literature National Book Award
[Phillip Hoose's _Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice_]
[See also http://tinyurl.com/yalgv8l ]
http://tinyurl.com/y9jy5nz
Birmingham News blog 19 November 2009

**4 Auburn University grads to receive lifetime achievement awards
http://tinyurl.com/ylhltlu
Birmingham News blog 19 November 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
November 20: http://tinyurl.com/ykd3btv
November 19: http://tinyurl.com/yenwa6m
Mobile Press-Register

**College Inn featured on Historical Society ornament
http://tinyurl.com/yzs4f9y
Athens News Courier 18 November 2009

**b. 07-14-1919 - Claude Trenier - Mobile, AL - d. 11-17-2003
singer: "Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #221
http://lists.oldradio.net/

**Greencup Books is Dead: A Eulogy
http://tinyurl.com/ye6k9su
Pavo Magazine [Birmingham] 15 November 2009

**A New South Story
A preview of the forthcoming Birmingham-Jefferson History Museum
http://tinyurl.com/yfyeurk
Black & White [Birmingham] 12 November 2009


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

**Seasoned musician [Chuck] Leavell returns home [editorial]
[Leavell has played with the Allman Brothers and Rolling Stones, among many
others]
[Nov. 20 feature article is at http://tinyurl.com/yky4oh9 ]
http://tinyurl.com/ylxcg8z
Tuscaloosa News 19 November 2009

**Window to aid Gadsden museum's art education
http://tinyurl.com/yef6d3o
Gadsden Times 18 November 2009


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

**James Armstong, civil rights flag bearer, dies
http://tinyurl.com/ydnk9hp
Birmingham News blog 19 November 2009


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

**The Heaviest Corner [Birmingham]
http://www.heaviestcorner.org/

**Sacred Ground
Alabama National Cemetery provides veterans an honored resting place
http://tinyurl.com/yjtkrmm
Birmingham Magazine November 2009

**Cotton Mill Village Memories
[Essay by Bill King about growing up in Dallas Mill Village in Huntsville]
Senior Living V16N11 November 2009


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

**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

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

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

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


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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Baggett [mailto:jbaggett@...]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:21 AM
To: Amos J Wright; sala-l@...
Subject: BPL Archives temporarily closing

Due to a construction and renovation project, the Birmingham Public
Library Archives will be closed to the public from Monday, November 30
to at least Friday, December 11. Researchers planning to visit the week
following December 11 are strongly encourage to check the Archives web
site (www.BirminghamArchives.org) to be sure that all construction has
been completed on time.

Jim Baggett, Head
Department of Archives and Manuscripts
Birmingham Public Library
2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203
205-226-3631 (voice), 205-226-3633 (fax)
jbaggett@...
www.BirminghamArchives.org

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Dec 3, 6-8 pm
Charlie Lucas book signing
Lyons Share
Artist Charlie Lucas will sign his book Tin Man during Fairhope's popular Art
Walk. See Web site for more information.
330 De La Mar
Fairhope, AL  36532
Contact: Karin Wilson
251-928-5295
karin@...
http://www.pageandpalette.com


**Dec 3-5
Holiday Memories
Red Door Theatre
Heartwarming production of Truman Capote's Thanksgiving and Christmas short
stories about growing up in Monroeville in the 1930's and the holidays he shared
with a spinster cousin. Play with accompanying holiday buffet reception. See Web
site for ticket information.
Blackmon Avenue and Prairie Street
Union Springs, AL  36089
Contact: Tourism Council of Bullock County
334-738-8687
conecuhpeople@...
http://www.unionspringsalabama.com


**Dec 6, 1 pm
Eddie Phillips book signing
Eastbrook Flea Market
Author Eddie Phillips will sign copies of his book The Other Side of Montgomery:
Growing Up White in the Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement.
425 Coliseum Boulevard
Montgomery, AL  36109
334-277-4027


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

**Mystery schooner revealed again on Fort Morgan peninsula
http://tinyurl.com/ye3s356
Mobile Press-Register 24 November 2009

**Gene Bartow inducted into Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
http://tinyurl.com/y9ptdlq
Birmingham News blog 23 November 2009

**Ala. man [Wayne Patton] among veterans honored for Vietnam act
http://tinyurl.com/yfauh7s
Tuscaloosa News 23 November 2009

**FBI seeks public's help with resolving old civil rights killings including
Birmingham case
http://tinyurl.com/y8sdmd7
Birmingham News blog 23 November 2009

**Looking Back [50, 25, etc., years ago in Tuscaloosa]
http://tinyurl.com/yfwp2s5
Tuscaloosa News 23 November 2009

**b. 11-24-1891 - Ben Gross - Birmingham, AL - d. 8-13-1979 wrote newspaper
column critiquing radio

b. 11-23-1949 - Tom Joyner - Tuskegee, Alabama
host: "The Tom Joyner Morning Show"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #224
http://lists.oldradio.net/

**Home preserves 'Mad Men' era
Sky Ranch house designed by Mobile architect Arch Winter and maintained in its
original midcentury style is on market for the first time since it was built in
1955
http://tinyurl.com/yg99wfq
Mobile Press-Register 22 November 2009

**T.R. Miller coach, AHSAA director among 2010 hall of fame class
http://tinyurl.com/yahkg6m
Birmingham News blog 22 November 2009

**VIEWPOINTS: Sports celebrityhood hits home
[Essay by Donna G. Thomas, sister of Tom Gossom, one of first blacks to play
football at Auburn]
http://tinyurl.com/y94ydxx
Birmingham News blog 22 November 2009

**VIEWPOINTS: Game brings brush with 'Bear'
http://tinyurl.com/yz2qcgh
Birmingham News blog 22 November 2009

**20-year anniversary of 1989 Iron Bowl triggers flood of memories
http://tinyurl.com/yd94v8a
Auburn Beat/al.com 22 November 2009

**Unforgettable Thanksgiving [in 1918]
http://tinyurl.com/yglospp
Gadsden Times 22 November 2009

**Temple Emanu-El unveils prayer book honoring 125-year history in Birmingham
http://tinyurl.com/yemqrg2
Birmingham News blog 21 November 2009

**[Sonya] Smith brings awareness to Indian heritage
http://tinyurl.com/ybp294o
Troy Messenger 21 November 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
November 24: http://tinyurl.com/yde5vaz
November 23: http://tinyurl.com/y9hbces
November 22: http://tinyurl.com/yfbfdyk
November 21: http://tinyurl.com/yaggyfh
Mobile Press-Register

**Input sought on Foster [Auditorium] project
http://tinyurl.com/yzhwc4o
Tuscaloosa News 20 November 2009

**Collinsville clocks in [with renovated 1924 Seth Martin clock]
http://tinyurl.com/yzr7c83
Rainsville Weekly Post 20 November 2009

**Manatee safely leaves Alabama [first captured in the state]
Birmingham News 20 November 2009, p5B

**A step back in history
BSC ready to re-strike up the (marching) band
Birmingham News 20 November 2009, p1B


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

**Times community columnist Paula Phillips on small towns [esp. Anderson, Ala.]
http://tinyurl.com/ycsazgn
Huntsville Times 22 November 2009

**Huntsville native [Kim Dickens] tackles small but meaty role in 'Blind Side'
http://tinyurl.com/ybbcqt2
Huntsville Times 22 November 2009

**Travel: Chicago's Houndstooth Saloon gives sanctuary to 'Bama fans
Birmingham News 22 November 2009, pp 1E, 12E

**From Gazebos to Kudzu, Alabama Memories
[Review of UA exhibit of work by William Christenberry]
Play/Birmingham News 22 November 2009, p7G


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

**Ex-chief, council member Ricks dies
[Former Leighton police chief and council member Percy Ricks]
http://tinyurl.com/yb3snbf
Florence Times Daily 24 November 2009

**[John] Archibald [column]: The legacy of a fighter, and a gentleman [James
Armstrong]
http://tinyurl.com/yer8xes
Birmingham News blog 22 November 2009

**VIEWPOINTS: James Armstrong outlasted adversity, thrived on beating it
http://tinyurl.com/y9mza9n
Birmingham News blog 22 November 2009


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

**Art Matters at UAB: The November Episode
http://main.uab.edu/Sites/MediaRelations/articles/70712/
UAB Media Relations 4 November 2009

**Protecting Alabama's Forests
The Civilian Conservation Corps Projects in State and Private Forests 1933-1942
http://tinyurl.com/y8prhn7
Alabama's Treasured Forests [Ala. Forestry Commission] fall 2009


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Brown Bag Lunch Program: Alabama School of Fine Arts Jazz Band
Join us for a wonderful concert by the talented students from the Alabama School
of Fine Arts. It's always fun! Wednesday, December 2, noon. Feed your body and
mind at BPL's Brown Bag Lunch Programs. You bring the lunch and we'll bring the
drinks. Wednesdays at noon in the Arrington Auditorium located on the 3rd floor
of the Linn-Henley Research Library, 2100 Park Place.
http://tinyurl.com/ybwpmq7


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

**Hotel Talisi in Tallassee destroyed by fire
http://tinyurl.com/ydl4pq2
Montgomery Advertiser 30 November 2009

**Montevallo's American Village still growing after 10 years
http://tinyurl.com/yks9odt
Birmingham News blog 30 November 2009

**Looking Back [50, 25, etc., years ago in Tuscaloosa]
http://tinyurl.com/yl2bftd
Tuscaloosa News 30 November 2009

**Encyclopedia of Alabama paints state story
http://tinyurl.com/yenbeef
Birmingham News blog 29 November 2009

**'After Wallace': Authors return to dawn of a new era
http://tinyurl.com/ykuawm9
Mobile Press-Register 29 November 2009

**Holidays bring back memories [of late 1950s/early 1960s]
http://tinyurl.com/yk25lsf
Gadsden Times 29 November 2009

**Four nominees inducted into Walk of Honor
http://tinyurl.com/y8jfrz4
Florence Times Daily 28 November 2009

**[Lauderdale] County may renovate old truss bridge [near Lexington]
http://tinyurl.com/yk2kowp
Florence Times Daily 27 November 2009

**FBI probes Elmore Co. civil rights case
James Earl Motley detained in 1966, died in cell
http://tinyurl.com/ygmuo6p
Prattville Progress 25 November 2009

**Cemetery history pieced together [Old New Garden Cemetery in Limestone Co.]
http://tinyurl.com/yadk2ug
Huntsville Times 25 November 2009

**Author recalls old games in schoolyard
[Gladys M. True in "My Life from Wagons to Rockets"]
http://tinyurl.com/y9x5tfy
Huntsville Times 25 November 2009

**D.C. statue [of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry] now at Samford University
http://tinyurl.com/ygpxdmf
Birmingham News blog 25 November 2009

**Historical Society to meet [Nov. 29]
[Bonnie Gums spoke on "Colonial Plantations on Mobile Bay"]
http://tinyurl.com/y8fasak
Mobile Press-Register 25 November 2009

**This Week in Alabama History
http://tinyurl.com/yh8cmxx
Gadsden Times 24 November 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
November 30: http://tinyurl.com/y88jegq
November 29: http://tinyurl.com/yls7d9d
November 28: http://tinyurl.com/ylzp45z
November 27: http://tinyurl.com/ydqo7ab
November 25: http://tinyurl.com/yzebpup
Mobile Press-Register

**1940 November 25: Singer Percy Sledge is born in Leighton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge

**Athens makes history: City Council, by 1 vote, OKs changes to historical
ordinance
http://tinyurl.com/ydcjmpw
iStockAnalyst [via Decatur Daily] 24 November 2009


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

**Chuck Leavell concert a huge success
http://tinyurl.com/ycmg26y
Tuscaloosa News 30 November 2009

**Bible school crafts led woman to a career in art [Stephanie Burks-Rochford]
http://tinyurl.com/ygtjkbs
Mobile Press-Register 29 November 2009

**Group promotes Black Belt art
Black Belt Treasures provides venue for artists to sell their work
http://tinyurl.com/yeh3sm7
Tuscaloosa News 29 November 2009

**Faith and science: UAB professor's book helps teachers present evolution
without offense [Lee Meadows]
http://tinyurl.com/y9tnqu6
Birmingham News blog 28 November 2009

**Gather 'round: Dr. [Bill] Foster is telling stories
http://tinyurl.com/y9pwmr8
Florence Times Daily 27 November 2009

**Smithsonian to display Tuscaloosa painter's artwork [Betty Ward]
http://tinyurl.com/yzv4dst
Tuscaloosa News 27 November 2009

**Saban Nation North: In Chicago, the Houndstooth Saloon provides homefield
advantage
http://tinyurl.com/yc4644t
Birmingham News blog 25 November 2009

**Local artists build a place - and an outlet - of their own
http://tinyurl.com/yl3glak
Florence Times Daily 24 November 2009

**Gadsden Museum of Art getting new programs, face-lift
http://tinyurl.com/yd35j3g
Gadsden Messenger 24 November 2009


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

**John Jones, champion of youth, dies
http://tinyurl.com/yjsp5kq
Shelby County Reporter 28 November 2009

**'Granny' Dennison, local historian, dies
http://tinyurl.com/y9nzk2j
Mobile Press-Register 25 November 2009


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

**[no entries this issue]


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

**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

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

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

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


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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Local Authors Expo Coming This Weekend [Dec. 4-5]
This Friday and Saturday over 140 authors will be gathered at the Central
Library to sell and autograph their books. It will be a perfect opportunity to
purchase holiday gifts for family and friends. Check out the list of authors to
see if your favorite is listed.
Local Authors Expo
Central Library
December 4th & 5th, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Sponsored by The Friends of the Birmingham Public Library
http://tinyurl.com/yfpk68h

**'Rocket Boys' author [Homer Hickam] set for Christmas parade [Dec. 5]
http://tinyurl.com/yhcv5us
Huntsville Times 1 December 2009


**Baldwin [County's] Bicentennial Bash is Dec. 12
Tours, free food, music and fireworks will end of 200th birthday celebration
http://tinyurl.com/yh85c4d
Mobile Press-Register 2 December 2009


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

**Education was 'good enough'
[More from "My Life from Wagons to Rockets" by Gladys McFarlen True]
http://tinyurl.com/yzzwyqs
Huntsville Times 2 December 2009

**Juvenile may be charged as adult in Hotel Talisi fire
http://tinyurl.com/ycpo5yo
Montgomery Advertiser 2 December 2009

**This Week in Alabama History
http://tinyurl.com/yfvqzp8
Gadsden Messenger 1 December 2009

**Harry Toulmin's descendant likes monument plans
Lew Toulmin says grave of judge who had Aaron Burr arrested hasn't been found
yet
[See also http://tinyurl.com/yh96qyx ]
http://tinyurl.com/yjzjoqh
Mobile Press-Register 1 December 2009

**Victor Hanson III retires as publisher of Birmingham News
http://tinyurl.com/ygdvalw
Birmingham News blog 1 December 2009

**Wilson Pickett honored by Alabama hometown [Prattville]
http://tinyurl.com/ycwajqo
Florence Times Daily 1 December 2009

**The Shoals' oldest florist closes doors [operated more than 70 years]
http://tinyurl.com/yfnzjnp
Florence Times Daily 1 December 2009

**Juvenile arrested in hotel fire
http://tinyurl.com/yla9xg3
Montgomery Advertiser 1 December 2009

**1955 Dec 1- Rosa Parks, a seamstress, refuses to take a back seat on
	 a Montgomery, Alabama bus.  Her refusal to move will
	 result in her arrest and will begin a 382-day boycott
	 of the bus system by African Americans and mark the
	 beginning of the modern American Civil Rights movement.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**1955 December 1:
African-American Civil Rights Movement: Seamstress Rosa Parks was
arrested for violating the racial segregation laws of Montgomery,
Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white
man, precipitating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
December 2: http://tinyurl.com/yf8d7vh
December 1: http://tinyurl.com/ylgadal
Mobile Press-Register

**Residents want veto of historic commission amendment
http://tinyurl.com/yhe3hjl
Athens News Courier 30 November 2009

**Arrest made in Tallassee fire
http://tinyurl.com/ylxnwd2
Montgomery Advertiser 30 November 2009

**Fire destroys Hotel Talisi, a Tallassee landmark
http://tinyurl.com/ylhhw4w
Mobile Press-Register blog [via Associated Press] 30 November 2009

**Ann Hodges becomes first person hit by a meteorite today in 1954
http://tinyurl.com/yj25he2
Nashua [NH] Telegraph 30 November 2009

**Historic Talisi Hotel destroyed
http://tinyurl.com/yk66cxf
WBRC-TV [Birmingham] 30 November 2009

**TOM SCARRITT: Hanson legacy noteworthy
[Hanson family has been associated with Birmingham News for 100 years]
http://tinyurl.com/ykkqsgd
Birmingham News blog 29 November 2009

**Ranking the mayors of the past [in Birmingham]
[John Archibald column]
http://tinyurl.com/yhphzqk
Birmingham News blog 29 November 2009

**From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History [Claudette Colvin]
http://tinyurl.com/y8cu5u6
New York Times 25 November 2009

**[AU player Rob] Carlile enjoyed AU's historic Iron Bowl [in 1989]
http://tinyurl.com/yk2q83w
Scottsboro Daily Sentinel 25 November 2009

**1962 Nov. 30- Bo Jackson is born in Bessemer, Alabama.  The 1985 Heisman
	 Trophy winner will be one of the few professional athletes
	 to play in two sports - football and baseball.

1880 Nov 24- More than 150 delegates from Baptist Churches in eleven
	 states organize the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention
	 of the United States at a meeting in Montgomery,
	 Alabama. The Rev. William H. McAlphine is elected
	 president.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html


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

**Local Teen Releases First Novel [William L. Yancey]
http://tinyurl.com/yzuoyms
Gadsden Messenger 1 December 2009

**Local retailers ship Bama merchandise across the U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/yklzaou
Tuscaloosa News 1 December 2009

**Sculptor [Charlie Lucas], collaborators to sign book today at UA
http://tinyurl.com/yk9gph4
Tuscaloosa News 1 December 2009

**Jazz legend lectures students
[Dr. Frank Adams, Sr., Executive Director of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame]
http://tinyurl.com/yfmjx3w
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 30 November 2009

**Faces and Places: Charlemagne Record Exchange Music lovers' haven still rocks
http://tinyurl.com/yjye75d
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 30 November 2009

**Singer's autobiographical film may shoot in Columbiana
[Samantha Cassidy's memoir is _Dancing in the Wilderness_]
http://tinyurl.com/ygxqgdk
Birmingham News blog 30 November 2009

**Book Highlights Quirks Of La. Cajun Swamp Town
[Book is by AU graduate Rheta Grimsley Johnson]
http://tinyurl.com/yg9x9xp
Weekend Edition Sunday [NPR] 29 November 2009

**Catch globetrotting pianist Yakov Kasman in his home town of Birmingham on
Tuesday
http://tinyurl.com/yjewpyw
Birmingham News blog 29 November 2009


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

**[Ala. native] M. WATT ESPY, AMERICA'S FOREMOST HISTORIAN OF EXECUTIONS, DIES
[August 13]
[Dothan Eagle profile, 2007: http://tinyurl.com/ydsvccr ]
[New York Times profile, 1987: http://tinyurl.com/yjrs4nm ]
http://www.eji.org/eji/node/332
Equal Justice Initiative 17 August 2009


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

**Gustav Hasford [Alabama author]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Hasford

**Mary Saums, _Thistle and Twigg_ (2007) introduces Jane Thistle, who has just
moved to Alabama after the death of her career military husband. Originally from
England, Jane feels that she is finally at home again in the small town of
Tullulah, especially after meeting Phoebe Twigg, another 60ish widow who has
lived her whole life in Tullulah. After an initial encounter involving a shotgun
and threats, Jane befriends Cal Prewitt, a reclusive man who owns the
neighboring woods. When Jane and Phoebe stumble over a body on Cal's land,
things get even more interesting: Cal is wanted for murder and Phoebe's kitchen
is firebombed. Narrated in alternating chapters by the two very different women,
the opposing views of the same events are often hilarious. Outwardly a proper
silver-haired lady who retains her British accent, Jane has hidden depths. She
owns an arsenal collected by her husband, practices martial arts, and can see
ghosts. Phoebe is totally transparent. She is related to or knows everyone in
town, and speaks her mind openly, even when she hasn't a clue what is going on.
Humor, suspense, and a surprising supernatural element, combine to make his
unusual cozy a success on many different levels.
Book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0312360630/sykm-20
Author: http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/S_Authors/Saums_Mary.html


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

-----Original Message-----
From: U.S. Southern Literature [mailto:H-SOUTHERN-LIT@...] On Behalf
Of Martyn Bone
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:04 AM
To: H-SOUTHERN-LIT@...
Subject: Announcement: Southern Cultures releases Food Issue and DVD

From: Dave Shaw [dshaw@...]
Subject: Southern Cultures releases Food Issue and DVD

Southern Cultures, the award-winning quarterly from UNC's Center for the
Study of the American South, has just released its Food Issue, which
includes essays, recipes, reviews, memories, favorite dishes, and a free
DVD of some of the Southern Foodways Alliance's short food films.

The contents include:
Nathalie Dupree on Grits & Yesteryear's Lowcountry Shrimp
The Lee Brothers on Buttermilk & Every Dish It Touches
John T. Edge on African American Cookbooks
Drum Head Stew Connoisseurs on a Mouthwatering Coastal Delicacy
John Egerton on Custard Pie & "The Yank-Off & Cool-Down"
Kathleen Purvis on a Pimento Cheese Outrage
Fred Sauceman on Fresh Frog Legs & Mining Ponds at Midnight
Jean Anderson on Tidewater Sweet Potato Pie
Mama Dip on Fooling Her Papa with a Dessert
John Currence on Peas--and his Dad at the Stove, Screaming at the Saints
Jessica Harris on Okra from Memphis to Mumbai
Bill Smith on Halved-Crab Soup & Using Chicken Necks as Bait

Plus:
What Really Makes Southern Foods Southern
Early 20th-Century Girls Tomato Canning Clubs
Making Connections through Food
The Recipe Revealed: Real Red Gravy
Local Food Growers on Preserving Southern Meals
The Family Heirloom that Inspired a Thanksgiving Feast
The History of a Plantation Discovered through Food
New Poetry from Michael McFee

It all comes with an introduction from the issue's Guest Editor, Marcie
Cohen Ferris.

Visit: www.SouthernCultures.org

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Wreaths to be placed on Madison vets' graves [Dec. 5]
http://tinyurl.com/y9sszpl
Huntsville Times 4 December 2009

**Holiday tour of homes [Dec. 5; includes historic Shelby Springs home]
http://tinyurl.com/yeg3uke
Shelby County Reporter 2 December 2009

**10 stops on Christmas Tour of Homes in Citronelle [Dec. 5; includes historic
homes]
http://tinyurl.com/ygk4thb
Mobile Press-Register 3 December 2009

**Brown Bag Lunch Program: A Christmas Memory Featuring Dolores Hydock [December
9]
The holiday season does not begin until you see Dolores Hydock present Truman
Capote's A Christmas Memory. Join us for our annual holiday treat and get the
season into full swing! Wednesday, December 9, noon. Feed your body and mind at
BPL's Brown Bag Lunch Programs. You bring the lunch and we'll bring the drinks.
Wednesdays at noon in the Arrington Auditorium located on the 3rd floor of the
Linn-Henley Research Library, 2100 Park Place.
http://tinyurl.com/ylpcbg6

**Book signings planned [Dec. 11 and 22; Fairhope]
[Ala. authors Linda Busby Parker and Chris Warner]
http://tinyurl.com/ydjtmew
Mobile Press-Register 4 December 2009


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

**Happy birthday, Montgomery [190th]
http://tinyurl.com/ygnxenl
Montgomery Advertiser 4 December 2009

**AEA celebrates 40th anniversary of merger [of state's black and white teacher
organizations]
http://tinyurl.com/ylrsxlw
Florence Times Daily 4 December 2009

**Selma officials mark welcome center's opening
[See also http://tinyurl.com/yzaloea ]
http://tinyurl.com/yjmsflo
Montgomery Advertiser 4 December 2009

**A second look at utopia
[Mary Lois Timbes' second book about Fairhope, "The Fair Hope of Heaven: A
Hundred Years After Utopia."]
http://tinyurl.com/yhko34t
BaldwinCountyNow.com 3 December 2009

**124-year-old Middle Bay Lighthouse to stay put
http://tinyurl.com/yjjnx7n
Mobile Press-Register 3 December 2009

**Helen Keller statue replica to arrive at [state] Capitol
http://tinyurl.com/yggkgbc
Montgomery Advertiser 3 December 2009

**Plan to move 19th-century Alabama lighthouse rejected
http://tinyurl.com/yjsor9g
Montgomery Advertiser 3 December 2009

**b. 12-03-1916 - Rabon Delmore - Elkmont, AL - d. 12-4-1952 guitar, singer:
"Grand Ole Opry"
[See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Delmore_Brothers ]
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #231
http://lists.oldradio.net/

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
December 4: http://tinyurl.com/ya67f3o
December 3: http://tinyurl.com/yzddozb
Mobile Press-Register

**Historical marker brings Wilson Pickett's family to Prattville
Singer honored by hometown
http://tinyurl.com/yhj7d8y
Our Prattville-A Newsmagazine 2 December 2009

**Steve Flowers [column]: Fob James pulls upset, elected as governor again [in
1994]
http://tinyurl.com/ykhwro3
Prattville Progress 2 December 2009


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

**Huntsville Symphony Orchestra conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto nominated for a
Grammy Award
http://tinyurl.com/yfkff9n
Huntsville Times blog 4 December 2009

**[Mac] McAnally earns Grammy salute
http://tinyurl.com/yj472o9
Florence Times Daily 4 December 2009

**Alabama pastor Jody Trautwein, a Birmingham mayoral candidate featured in film
'Bruno,' still hasn't seen movie
http://tinyurl.com/ydh39vo
Birmingham News blog 4 December 2009

**Jimmy Buffett tells tales of home on 'Buffet Hotel'
http://tinyurl.com/yjy9lno
Mobile Press-Register blog 3 December 2009

**Trussville's Rebecca Gilman opens play 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' at New
York Theatre Workshop
http://tinyurl.com/yck48nu
Birmingham News blog 3 December 2009

** The Locals Have It: The Birmingham Tapes [22 songs by local musicians]
http://tinyurl.com/yzmv9tk
Birmingham Magazine December 2009


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

**Former state Sen. Pierre Pelham, a force for USA medical school, dies at 80
http://tinyurl.com/yd6b6aj
Mobile Press-Register 4 December 2009


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

**Community Theater  [in Brundidge] Rises from the Ashes
Friends & Family [Alfa] winter 2009, p22
http://www.alfafarmers.org/friendsnfamily/ [winter issue not yet online]

**The Wordsmith
[J. Paul] Till to Retire after 34 Years of Telling Farmers' Stories
[Till has written for various Alabama Farmers Federation publications]
Friends & Family [Alfa] winter 2009, p13
http://www.alfafarmers.org/friendsnfamily/ [winter issue not yet online]


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Woodcarver's work on display [through January 2010]
Prattaugan Museum exhibiting local man's artistry [Allen Carmichael]
http://tinyurl.com/yj2ze93
Prattville Progress 5 December 2009


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

**Film 'Still Standing' set today
Documentary looks at effect on local vets of trip to D.C.
http://tinyurl.com/ycgn653
Huntsville Times 7 December 2009

**Recalling day that changed America
http://tinyurl.com/yfor4sv
Florence Times daily 7 December 2009

**Five commemorative ornaments honor UNA's historic buildings
http://tinyurl.com/ygs8rzw
Florence Times Daily 7 December 2009

**Klein and Sons clock on its way back downtown
http://tinyurl.com/ygmb88w
Montgomery Advertiser 7 December 2009

**'FRESH IN MY MEMORY': Prattville veteran recalls Pearl Harbor attacks
http://tinyurl.com/ygf7xyq
Montgomery Advertiser 7 December 2009

**Gadsden resident [Bob] Galloway fought at Iwo Jima
http://tinyurl.com/yj4y72w
Gadsden Times 6 December 2009

**USS Arizona casualty remembered in Baldwin [William Eernisse]
http://tinyurl.com/yk4ty74
Mobile Press-Register 6 December 2009

**Historic Commission Awards
http://tinyurl.com/yalhsvm
Mobile Press-Register 6 December 2009

**Restoration of [circa-1876] twin houses on Ann Street earns award
http://tinyurl.com/ylhqfpp
Mobile Press-Register 6 December 2009

**Parade marks start of holiday season [since 1940s]
http://tinyurl.com/yg75ynd
Gadsden Times 6 December 2009

**Play could help save infamous Pickens County courthouse
Play based on legend [of Henry Wells] to be performed in courthouse
http://tinyurl.com/yhrzr62
Tuscaloosa News 6 December 2009

**North Alabama man [Gilbert Crutchfield] recalls Pearl Harbor attack
http://tinyurl.com/yhs5t5d
Florence Times Daily 6 December 2009

**[Elizabeth] Sykora inducted into 4-H Wall of Fame
http://tinyurl.com/ylbnswe
Mobile Press-Register 6 December 2009

**Belle Mont Mansion tour Sunday shows renovations
http://tinyurl.com/ygclo4k
Florence Times Daily 5 Declember 2009

**U.S. Navy retiree recalls Dec. 7, 1941 [Harry Pouyadou]
http://tinyurl.com/ydbhh9u
Mobile Press-Register 5 December 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
December 7: http://tinyurl.com/yend9mg
December 6: http://tinyurl.com/yd8aayn
December 5: http://tinyurl.com/yb8puda
Mobile Press-Register

**Renovation work begins on Norton Museum at Snead State
http://tinyurl.com/y9ht5pc
Gadsden Times 4 December 2009

**Bus boycott anniversary marked in Ala.
http://tinyurl.com/ykolj2b
Gadsden Times 4 December 2009

**Montgomery residents share key moments [from its history]
http://tinyurl.com/yanuseo
Montgomery Advertiser 4 December 2009

**1985 Dec 7- Bo Jackson of Auburn University wins the Heisman Trophy.

1931 Dec 7- Comer Cottrell is born in Mobile, Alabama. In 1970, he
	 will become founder and president of Pro-line
	 Corporation, the largest African American-owned business
	 in the southwest, which he will start with $ 600 and a
	 borrowed typewriter.  An entrepreneur with a wide range
	 of interests, Cottrell will also become the first
	 African American to own a part of a major league
	 baseball team, the Texas Rangers, in 1989.

1957 Dec 5- Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the NAACP's Spingarn
	 Medal for his leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1955 Dec 5- The Montgomery bus boycott begins as a result of Rosa
	 Parks' refusal to ride in the back of a city bus four
	 days earlier. At a mass meeting at the Holt Street
	 Baptist Church, Martin Luther King Jr. is elected
	 president of the boycott organization. The boycott will
	 last a little over a year and be the initial victory in
	 the civil rights struggle of African Americans in the
	 United States.

1915 Dec 4- The Ku Klux Klan receives its charter from Fulton
	 County, Georgia Superior Court. The modern Klan will
	 spread to Alabama and other Southern states and reach
	 the height of its influence in the twenties.  By 1924,
	 the organization will be strong in Oklahoma, Indiana,
	 California, Oregon, Indiana, and Ohio, and have an
	 estimated four million members.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**The Original Graduate [Ronald T. Acton] Reflects on 40 Years at UAB
http://tinyurl.com/yjehmpx
UAB Magazine November 2009


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

**She believes Orange Beach still the best place to be
[Margaret Childress Long, co-author of 2006 book "The Best Place to Be: The
Story of Orange Beach, Alabama."]
http://tinyurl.com/ya8q669
Mobile Press-Register 7 December 2009

**The best reading on the beach
Gulf Shores, Orange Beach libraries rated among best in nation by trade journal
http://tinyurl.com/y9da3dh
Mobile Press-Register 7 December 2009

**Local musician [Whitney Dean] appears on 'One Tree Hill'
http://tinyurl.com/ylez3mj
Florence Times Daily 6 December 2009

**Local artisans display wares at show
http://tinyurl.com/yz9syva
Montgomery Advertiser 6 December 2009

**Magic City filled with dreams [Kathy Kemp column]
[Profile of local author Clementina Marie Giovannetti, who writes about dreams]
Birmingham News 6 December 2009, p1E

**Book [by Jason Manning] is capital idea in funding business
http://blog.al.com/businessnews/2009/12/book_is_capital_idea_in_fundin.html
Birmingham News 5 December 2009

**Lipscomb pastor's daughter [Sheri Sellers] pens book of questions
http://tinyurl.com/ygtpc4b
Birmingham News blog 5 December 2009

**Lucky number: Take 6 in harmony with holidays, ready to sing in Birmingham
http://tinyurl.com/y8ozvks
Birmingham News blog 4 December 2009

**Q&A with Take 6's Claude McKnight
http://tinyurl.com/y9z9x2r
Birmingham Weekly 29 November 2009

**"Failure is not an option"
Amabala Records Makes Homegrown Hip-Hop
http://www.bhamweekly.com/
Birmingham Weekly 26 November 2009, pp 8-10


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

**Ex-United Way spokesman [Hank] Schmitt dies
http://tinyurl.com/ydsmhtk
Montgomery Advertiser 5 December 2009

**WWII veteran Maurice Bell, a survivor of the USS Indianapolis sinking, dies in
Mobile today
http://tinyurl.com/ycw2388
Mobile Press-Register blog 4 December 2009


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

**Dale's Alabama Rail Pics
http://www.alabamarailpics.com

**Teresa K. Thorne [Alabama author]
http://www.tkthorne.com/home.html

**Mobile Genealogical Society
http://www.mobileroots.org/


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

**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

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

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

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


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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

-----Original Message-----
From: Popular Culture & American Culture Associations/H-Net Discussion list
[mailto:H-PCAACA@...] On Behalf Of J. Brian Wagaman H-PCAACA
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 2:53 PM
To: H-PCAACA@...
Subject: Book Publication Announcement/TOC: _CrossRoads: A Southern Culture
Annual 2009_ (11/15/09)

Publication Announcement of New Anthology Exploring Southern Culture:

CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual 2009_, ed. by Ted Olson (Mercer
University Press, published November 2009), 314 pages, ISBN
978-0881460957.

Table of Contents:

1.      Leslie Haynsworth, "Why I Feel Sorry for Yankees" (essay)

2.      Dory L. Hudspeth, "Chiggers" (poem)

3.      Tom Leskiw, "Sunshine State Sojourn" (essay)

4.      Mary Kate Azcuy, "Islamorada Artist Colony" (poem)

5.      Fred Sauceman, "Rooping Around Sopchoppy" (essay)

6.      Ron Rash, "Invocation" (poem)

7.      Dan Styrk, "Still Pool in the Rapids" (poem)

8.      Katheryn Krotzer Laborde, "Roads Taken" (essay)

9.      Katheryn Krotzer Laborde, "Coming Home" (photo essay)

10.  Jean-Mark Sens, "After Visit" (poem)

11.  Lenard D. Moore, "On the Phone" (poem)

12.  Heinz Tschachler, "The Louisiana Dix Note: The Territorialization
of American Paper Money and the Myth of the South as 'Dixieland'"
(essay)

13.  Vladimir Volkoff, "A Real Lady" (short story)

14.  Owen Elmore, "At Play in the Fields of War: Southern Literature as
Memorial Art" (essay)

15.  Tom Gibbs, "Grace" (poem)

16.  Eve Dunbar, "Ghost Stories at the Mississippi Archives" (essay)

17.  Lee Wilson, "Ida B. Wells" (essay)

18.  Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "Lynching, Our National Crime" (essay)

19.  Erica Abrams Locklear, "Consenting to Create: The Affrilachian
Movement" (essay)

20.  R.T. Smith, "Johnny Shines' Last Edict on the Taproot of Delta
Blues (at the End Zone Lounge, April 1990)" (poem)

21.  Randall Wilhelm, "Scratchy 78s on a Victrola: American Roots Music
in William Gay's Short Fiction" (essay)

22.  M. Thomas Inge, "Faulkner and Jean Renoir's Southern Fable" (essay)

23.  Robert Morgan, "Hillside Plow" (poem)

24.  Sue Walker, "What a Man Holds to Be True" (poem)

25.  Shaw Smith, "Whistlin' Dixie: A Post-Colonial Approach to Visual
Culture in the American South" (essay)

26.  Elizabeth Williams, "John C. Campbell and the Social Survey"
(essay)

27.  Elaine Fowler Palencia, "Fall Down" (short story)

28.  Catherine B. Emanuel, "Distant Fires" (memoir)

29.  Katherine J. Onder, "Ina of Landon Hall" (essay)

30.  Leigh Ann Henion, "Market Music" (memoir)

31.  Charles Semones, "The Last Fall" (memoir)

Ted Olson
<OLSON@...>

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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

**Meet [Ala.] Authors Rick Bragg and Sonny Brewer in Lawrenceville [Ga., Dec. 9]
http://tinyurl.com/yau3kmc
Talk Gwinnett/Gwinnett Gazette 7 December 2009

**ARCHITREATS: FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRESENTATION [December 17]
REFLECTIONS ON MY LIFE IN ALABAMA HISTORY
BY WAYNE FLYNT
AT THE ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/whatsnew/ATPR_12_17_09.pdf


**February 4, 2010
Second Annual Reading/Reception
  for the Hackney Literary Awards Issue
  of the Birmingham Arts Journal
Downtown Birmingham Public Library Lobby
6-8pm
Open to the Public.
Sponsored by
Birmingham Arts Journal
Hackney Awards committee
Downtown Public Library
www.birminghamartsjournal.org


**Title: Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference
    Location: Alabama
    Deadline: 2010-03-08
    Description: Call for Papers 13th Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League
       Conference July 15-17, 2010 Birmingham, AL Theme: Glory Days: A
       Salute to the Negro Leagues in the South & Rickwood Field Paper
       or Panel Proposals: Due March 8th, 2010 Paper presentations or
       panel discussion proposals may include all topics relat ...
    Contact: Lheaphy@...
    URL: www.LarryLester42.com
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172266


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

**Athens landmark boasts a link to a U.S. president
Beaty-Mason Home has table belonging to Andrew Johnson
http://tinyurl.com/yh9shh9
Huntsville Times 9 December 2009

**[Children's] Hospital [of Alabama] celebrates its history
http://tinyurl.com/ygp4jq7
Huntsville Times 9 December 2009

**Anniversary cookbook is history in the making
[10th anniversary reprint of _Historic Five Points Cookbook_]
http://tinyurl.com/yfum8bb
Huntsville Times 9 December 2009

**Bay Minette man proud of family's education legacy [J. Allison Boykin]
http://tinyurl.com/yhxpwvo
Mobile Press-Register 9 December 2009

**Historic clock returns to downtown Montgomery
http://tinyurl.com/ydlshsm
Montgomery Advertiser 9 December 2009

**This Week in Alabama History
http://tinyurl.com/ybq7m8n
Gadsden Messenger 8 December 2009

**Davis Lee gives another $100,000 to Honor Flight at documentary premiere
http://tinyurl.com/ygm8cta
Huntsville Times blog 8 December 2009

**Ceremony to mark clock's return downtown today
http://tinyurl.com/yfbwqpk
Montgomery Advertiser 8 December 2009

**Wetumpka ceremony marks Pearl Harbor attacks
http://tinyurl.com/ygomyhh
Montgomery Advertiser 8 December 2009

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
December 9: http://tinyurl.com/yjqjyu2
December 8: http://tinyurl.com/yj33ygn
Mobile Press-Register

**Looking Back [50, 25, etc., years ago this week in Tuscaloosa]
http://tinyurl.com/yjcvus9
Tuscaloosa News 7 December 2009

**b. 12-07-1922 - Don Maddox - Boaz, AL
"The Maddox Brothers and Rose"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #234
http://lists.oldradio.net/


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

**'Secret' is out: His film career is on fast track [Daryl Anderson, Jr.]
Oakwood student's 20-minute movie sold out tonight
http://tinyurl.com/yzpho49
Huntsville Times 8 December 2009

**Cultural Arts Foundation seeks additional funding for utilities, orchestra
program
http://tinyurl.com/yc7jryv
Gadsden Messenger 8 December 2009


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

**Former Jacksonville St. AD Jerry Cole dies
http://tinyurl.com/ybnkzl4
Montgomery Advertiser 8 December 2009


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

**University of Alabama Press Catalog
Spring/Summer 2010
http://tinyurl.com/y8kx2dm


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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**USEFUL LINKS

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

**'Bash' marks end of bicentennial year [for Baldwin Co.]
Food, music, games, fireworks and'gator all part of free event Saturday
http://tinyurl.com/ycxtvwp
Mobile Press-Register 11 December 2009


**Open house takes you inside Alabama and Lyric theatres [Dec. 13]
http://tinyurl.com/ykpxey5
Birmingham Weekly 9 December 2009


**Dec 13, 3-6 pm
Kirk Curnutt _Dixie Noir_ release party
El Rey Burito Lounge, Montgomery
http://www.capitolbook.com


**Dec 17, 10:30 am
First Lady Patsy Riley book event
Page & Palette, Fairhope
http://www.pageandpalette.com


**EXHIBIT:  WWII POW CAMP IN OPELIKA [AU's Draughon Library]
    An exhibit concerning Camp Opelika, a World War II prisoner of war camp, is
currently on display in the Special Collections and Archives Department.  The
exhibit is located in a small glass flat case next to the entrance to the
Alabama Collection room in the Department. Camp Opelika was operated as a
prisoner of war camp from 1942 to 1945.  The text of a camp report indicates
that in 1943 there were 3012 German prisoners of war housed there.  The exhibit
features photographs, a blueprint, and some realia including a postage stamp
with Adolf Hitler*s portrait and German currency.    The Special Collections and
Archives Department is located on the GROUND FLOOR of the Ralph Brown Draughon
Library.
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/


**EXHIBIT:  ALABAMA'S 190TH. ANNIVERSARY [AU's Draughon Library]
    An exhibit featuring the 190th. anniversary of Alabama's statehood is
currently on display in the Special Collections and Archives Department.  The
exhibit is located in the three upright glass cases on the north side of the
department (facing Samford Hall). Alabama became a state on December 14, 1819. 
The exhibit features informative captions about the history of the state and a
variety of books and illustrations concerning early statehood, state symbols,
politics, and culture. The Special Collections and Archives Department is
located on the GROUND FLOOR of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/


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

**Calhoun County to level derelict but historic military buildings
http://tinyurl.com/yehyx6r
Birmingham News blog 11 December 2009

**Professor [John Giggie] helps church document its history
Book will focus on role in civil rights era [Hunter Chapel AME Zion]
http://tinyurl.com/yc74nh2
Tuscaloosa News 11 December 2009

**Alabama Music Hall of Fame ceremony to return in 2010 to Capital City
http://tinyurl.com/ya6tkp7
Montgomery Advertiser 11 December 2009

**1926 Dec 11- Willie Mae Thornton is born in Montgomery, Alabama.  She
	 will be better known as "Big Mama" Thornton, a blues
	 singer whose recording of "Hound Dog" in 1952 will be
	 mimicked by Elvis Presley, much to his success.  She
	 also recorded the hits "Ball & Chain," and "Stronger
	 than Dirt." She will join the ancestors on July 25, 1984.
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
December 11: http://tinyurl.com/y877yoz
December 10: http://tinyurl.com/yjaynko
Mobile Press-Register

**White Christmas just doesn't happen here [Birmingham area]
http://tinyurl.com/yzhtj95
Clanton Advertiser 9 December 2009

**[AU's Ed] Dyas, [UA's Woodrow] Lowe inducted into College Football Hall of
Fame
http://tinyurl.com/yg6ajwe
Montgomery Advertiser 9 December 2009

**New book highlights history of Dale County [Mount Enon] cemetery
http://tinyurl.com/ye2bhg5
Dothan Eagle 9 December 2009

**Vision-Impaired Girl Gets Helen Keller Understudy Role
[Kyra Siegel is understudy in coming Broadway revival of _The Miracle Worker_]
http://tinyurl.com/yfvaddf
New York Times 9 December 2009

**History, first and foremost
Spurred by mural, residents reminisce of Foremost Milk days
http://tinyurl.com/y8k8gzr
Florence Times Daily 8 December 2009

**Historic Pinckard home burns near fire station
http://tinyurl.com/y8e9bg7
Dothan Eagle 7 December 2009


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

**Local folk singer branches out with new solo CD
Henri's Notions crooner calls her own shots [Jil Chambless]
http://tinyurl.com/ycfncdm
Tuscaloosa News 10 December 2009

**Artist's rendition of McCord Oak to be unveiled [in Albertville]
http://tinyurl.com/ycswctg
Gadsden Times 10 December 2009

**Author [Jean Gay Mussleman] joins governor's wife in Montgomery book signing
http://tinyurl.com/ye25ua4
Florence Times Daily 10 December 2009

**Krannert Art Museum to Present the Works of Reverend Howard Finster [Ala.
native]
http://tinyurl.com/yejm64w
artdaily.org 10 December 2009

**Culture makes Tuscaloosa a great place [editorial]
http://tinyurl.com/ye3nctg
Tuscaloosa News 10 December 2009

**Five sisters publish family recipe favorites
Tasty fare from country cooks
[The five Martin sisters were born in Clayton, Ala.]
http://tinyurl.com/ybspptb
Clay County Progress [Hayesville NC] 9 December 2009

**Huntsville's G-Side Are Thriving on the Internet-and East Village Radio
Southern rappers Clova and ST 2 Lettaz stare down the Manhattan-Alabama hip-hop
pipeline
http://tinyurl.com/yl6btge
Village Voice [NYC] 8 December 2009

**Family's book show importance of giving spirit
[_Lemonaid_ by Mary Ruth Caldwell and daughter Hoodie printed by United Way of
Central Ala.]
Birmingham News 8 December 2009, pp 1B, 3B


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

**Fred Jones, former Bates Field air traffic control chief, dies
http://tinyurl.com/y9efkof
Mobile Press-Register 11 December 2009

**USA professor Steven Teplick remembered as dedicated physician
http://tinyurl.com/y8ozslu
Mobile Press-Register 10 December 2009

**James Dawson, longtime Huntsville school board member, dies at 84
[See also lengthy 12/10 article: http://tinyurl.com/yc7xkdd ]
http://tinyurl.com/yll8efz
Huntsville Times blog 9 December 2009

**Lawyer Jack Bingham dies
Was mentor to hundreds in area
[obituary at http://tinyurl.com/yextvnx ]
Birmingham News 9 December 2009, p6B


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

**Lyric Theatre [Birmingham]
http://www.lyricfineartstheatre.com/

**Bygone Days--Helena, Alabama [photos]
http://community.webshots.com/album/7767164GyasclVVqu

**The Dancing Doctor
In Step with Debora Kimberlin, M.D.
http://tinyurl.com/y8svveh
UAB Magazine December 2009

**Hollywood Ghost Hunters at Sloss Furnace, Oct. 2009
http://www.hollywoodghosthunters.com/evidence.html


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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**USEFUL LINKS

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

**[Mike] Handley featured at Art Guild Museum [through December]
http://tinyurl.com/ya9m44w
Selma Times Journal 13 December 2009

**Hank Williams Memorial Celebration
Montgomery; Jan 1
Visit Oakwood Cemetery Annex for a wreath-laying ceremony at 10 a.m., then
return to the museum for black-eyed peas and live music.
http://tinyurl.com/ydh45o2

**The Presenters Exhibition
Troy; Jan 2–Mar 31
In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Clay Conference at Troy
University, this exhibit will showcase the artwork of four of the top pottery
artists in the world.
http://tinyurl.com/yb5e4m9

**USS ALABAMA Battleship Memorial Park's 45th Anniversary
Mobile; Jan 9
In honor of the park's 45th anniversary, Alabamians will be admitted on this day
at 1/2 price (a valid AL driver's license must be shown). Since opening to the
public, more than 13 million have visited Battleship Memorial Park.
http://tinyurl.com/y97cz2h

**Pike Piddlers Storytelling Festival
Brundidge; Jan 29
Storytelling featuring nationally acclaimed storytellers Donald Davis, Barbara
McBride-Smith, Kevin Kling and Elizabeth Ellis. Tickets go on sale Dec. 29,
2009. For tickets, call 334-735-3125. Open reserved seating only.
http://tinyurl.com/yeu8uxf

**381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story
Birmingham; Jan 30–Apr 11
This exhibition offers a gripping account of the men and women whose nonviolent
approach to political and social change matured into a weapon of equality for
all.
http://tinyurl.com/yedqfch

**Legendary Storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham Continues Spinning Tales Across
Alabama
http://tinyurl.com/ybjkt5d
New South Publishers 1 December 2009


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

**Indian museum upgrades in limbo
http://tinyurl.com/ybxguyn
Florence Times Daily 14 December 2009

**Looking Back [50, 25, etc., years ago in Tuscaloosa]
http://tinyurl.com/ybv8a5g
Tuscaloosa News 14 December 2009

**1819 December 14:
Alabama was admitted as the 22nd U.S. state, after the statehood of
present-day Northern Alabama was delayed for several years by the lack
of a coastline until Mobile was captured from Spain during the War of 1812.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama

**Federal funding coming to National Voting Rights Museum
http://tinyurl.com/ybrag3e
Selma Times Journal 13 December 2009

**Book will be record of city, church history [editorial]
"...University of Alabama history professor John Giggie is working with Hunter
Chapel AME Zion Church, one of Tuscaloosa oldest and most significant black
churches, to document the church’s 143-year history in book form."
http://tinyurl.com/ycubk35
Tuscaloosa News 13 December 2009

**Law offices pay homage to history
Local attorneys design offices' exterior to look like White House, fill interior
with historical artifacts
http://tinyurl.com/y94mv3c
Mobile Press-Register 13 December 2009

**Medical pioneers start early hospitals [in Gadsden]
http://tinyurl.com/ybuyl4e
Gadsden Times 13 December 2009

**AL BENN'S ALABAMA: Historic [YMCA] building challenge for Selma man [Tom
Bolton]
http://tinyurl.com/yawu9ww
Montgomery Advertiser 13 December 2009

**Alabama man in Krystal Lovers Hall of Fame
[Retired employee Charlie Capps]
http://tinyurl.com/ydwsw9v
Montgomery Advertiser 13 December 2009

**Historic Heisman: [Mark] Ingram first to win trophy for the Tide
http://tinyurl.com/y9xmvjx
Tuscaloosa News 13 December 2009

**2009 December 13: Singer-musician Randy Owen is 60.

**[Dennie] Rewis and [Ernie] Knighten among seven inducted into Alabama Auto
Racing Pioneers Hall of Fame
http://tinyurl.com/ydlqsqf
Birmingham News blog 12 December 2009

**Church demolition restores look of Drish House
Effort is part of plan to stabilize the house
http://tinyurl.com/ye2dvot
Tuscaloosa News 12 December 2009

**Historic Fort McClellan buildings to be torn down
http://tinyurl.com/y9tknqm
Florence Times Daily 12 December 2009

**1913 Dec 12- James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens is born in Oakville, Alabama.
	 He will become a world-class athlete in college, setting
	 world records in many events.  He will go on to win 4 gold
	 medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, spoiling Hitler's
	 plans to showcase Aryan sports supremacy.
FROM: Today in Black History
: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**b. 01-31-1902 - Tullulah Bankhead - Huntsville, AL - d. 12-12-1968 actor,
hostess: "Johnny Presents"; "Big Show"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #239
http://lists.oldradio.net/

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1859, 1909, etc.]
December 13: http://tinyurl.com/y97tnhs
December 12: http://tinyurl.com/y9klr4g
Mobile Press-Register

**Preserved 1839 church
Mysterious Mooresville preacher part of Brick Church’s history
http://tinyurl.com/y9ngdv5
Decatur Daily 11 December 2009

**Gardendale honors its veterans
http://tinyurl.com/ybqsd9a
Birmingham News blog 11 December 2009

**A Day in Hell
A candid portrayal of World War II vets not necessarily driven by patriotism.
[Review of _Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron,
August 29, 1944_
By James L. Noles and James L. Noles Jr. University of Alabama Press, 277 pages;
$34.95]
http://tinyurl.com/yaglu5f
Black & White [Birmingham] 10 December 2009


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

**2 local students win ethics essay competition
http://tinyurl.com/yap9l97
Florence Times Daily 14 December 2009

**Art gallery opens at Gadsden State
http://tinyurl.com/ycc3j9q
Gadsden Times 13 December 2009

**Jake Reiss discovered his passion and became The Booksmith
http://tinyurl.com/yebw46e
Birmingham News blog 13 December 2009

**Author pulls from personal experience
"Joyce Sterling Scarbrough's most recently published book, "Symmetry," has a
personal twist"
http://tinyurl.com/yej7usf
Mobile Press-Register 13 December 2009.

**Author’s story lines are surreal and challenging [Ala. author Joe Taylor]
http://tinyurl.com/yeo2o4d
Tuscaloosa News 13 December 2009

**Montgomery Youth Orchestra shines in holiday performance
http://tinyurl.com/ycjj7h7
Montgomery Advertiser 13 December 2009

**Young writers display latest volume
http://tinyurl.com/y9snwsp
Montgomery Advertiser 13 December 2009

**Area students to show off art work
http://tinyurl.com/yd7xgm7
Selma Times-Journal 11 December 2009

**The Suspended Art of Amy Pleasant
[Artist with new exhibit at Birmingham Museum of Art is a Birmingham native.]
http://tinyurl.com/yar9oqh
Birmingham Weekly 10 December 2009


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

**Lucille Greenwood was a real 'character'
http://tinyurl.com/ycto62o
Huntsville Times blog 12 December 2009

**Tampa man assigned to Tuskegee Airmen dies at 87 [George Abercrombie]
http://tinyurl.com/y9msess
St. Petersburg Times 11 December 2009

**Tuskegee Airman who was profiled in Post-Dispatch series dies [Luther H.
Smith]
http://tinyurl.com/ycucyoz
stltoday.com [St. Louis] 10 December 2009


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

**[no entries this issue]


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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 appear in the "Bonus Material" section.


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

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

**Jan 8, 2010, 8 pm
Jeanie Thompson reading
The Rudyard Kipling, Louisville, Ky.
http://www.inkyreadingseries.com/

**Jan 10, 2 pm
Irene Latham, _Leaving Gee's Bend_ launch party
North Shelby Library, Birmingham
http://www.irenelatham.com

**Jan 11, 10 am
Kathryn Tucker Windham book event
O.D. Smith Hall, Auburn University
http://www.olliatauburn.org/

**Jan 13, noon-1 pm
Barbara Eubanks: Writers of Calhoun County monthly meeting
Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County
http://www.hearttreebooks.com

**Jan 15, 8 pm
Montevallo Poetry Slam
Eclipse Coffee and Books
http://www.newdawnunlimited.com

**Jan 16, 2 pm
Irene Latham reading
Hoover Public Library
http://www.southernvoices.info


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

**Old house with a history is home again [in Athens]
http://tinyurl.com/yexocxv
Huntsville Times 16 December 2009

**Money talks at Madison job in 1930s
http://tinyurl.com/yez7afh
Huntsville Times 16 December 2009

**Museum to honor Scottsboro's civil rights history
http://tinyurl.com/y8q8qa3
Huntsville Times 16 December 2009

**Alabama Sports Hall of Fame
Horry, Tamburello head Class of 2010
Versatile female Clanton in group
Birmingham News 16 December 2009, pp 1C, 5C

**This Week in Alabama History
http://tinyurl.com/ycxrlmv
Gadsden Times 15 December 2009

**Casting Announced for ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ [the musical]
http://tinyurl.com/yeo3btx
New York Times/ArtsBeat blog 15 December 2009

**Flower shops wilt [including Gordon's, closing after 35 years]
http://tinyurl.com/yan8jlw
Huntsville Times 15 December 2009

**Alabama's Grand Hotel packs first book with memories and recipes
http://tinyurl.com/ycfby82
Montgomery Advertiser 14 December 2009

**b. 08-29-1924 - Dinah Washington - Tuscaloosa, AL - d. 12-14-1963 blues
singer: "Jubilee"; "Bob Hope Show"; "One Night Stand"
old.time.radio Digest V2009 Issue #241
http://lists.oldradio.net/

**1963 Dec 14- Singer [& Tuscaloosa native] Dinah Washington joins the ancestors
after a sleeping
	 pill overdose at the age of 39 in Detroit, Michigan.  She
	 popularized many, many great songs, including "What a
	 Diff'rence a Day Makes", "Unforgettable" and several hits
	 with Brook Benton, including "Baby (You've Got What it
	 Takes)" and "A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall
	 in Love)".
FROM: Today in Black History
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html

**Renovation on track: Work moving along on historic rail depot in Jacksonville
http://tinyurl.com/yafy5g2
Anniston Star 12 December 2009

**New Author Profiles on This Goodly Land
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added six new Alabama
author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include
biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and
places where interested readers can go to find out more. Our latest additions
are novelist Jack Bethea, travel and nature writer Archie Carr, journalist and
nonfiction writer Frye Gaillard, crime fiction writer Carolyn Haines, and
novelists/children’s book authors Wyatt Blassingame and Virginia Sorensen.
http://tinyurl.com/yd5h7sb
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape 12 December 2009


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

**City's cultural arts center closer to reality
http://tinyurl.com/yfyjazz
Tuscaloosa News 16 December 2009

**Sharing love of painting
"Among those pieces [at the Smithsonian] sits a Venetian city scene created by
Gayle Jones of North Shelby and lions painted by Sandy and Gary Johnson of
Westover."
http://tinyurl.com/y8ea7mk
Shelby County Reporter 14 December 2009

**Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Modine and Elizabeth Franz Join ‘Miracle Worker’
http://tinyurl.com/ybrbblw
New York Times/ArtsBeat blog 13 December 2009


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

**[no entries this issue]


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

**Alabama Guild of Decorative Artists
http://theagoda.org/


**Forthcoming Books with Alabama Connections

Davies, Sharon. _Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race and Religion in
America_. Oxford University Press, February 2010 [About the murder of Father
James E. Coyle in Birmingham in 1921]
Publishers Weekly review at http://tinyurl.com/yb8znmv

Thompson, Gabriel. _Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most)
Americans Won't Do. Nation, February 2010 [Includes poultry plants in Alabama]
Publishers Weekly review at http://tinyurl.com/yb8znmv


**Brief History of Stockton
http://www.stocktonala.com/index_files/Page456.htm


**Haunted Places in Alabama
http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/alabama.htm


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

**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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse
chronological order within each section. All links are presumably working at the
time I send this email. 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 newspaper or magazine
web site. Some items are listed without links because I either could not find
online versions or could not find a free one.

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

WARNING: Many articles on newspaper and magazine web sites and blogs are
accompanied by nasty, anonymous comments about individuals and subjects in or
sometimes unrelated to the posted articles. Some articles in these listings will
unfortunately include such commentary.

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**USEFUL LINKS

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**COMING EVENTS
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**Remembering Scottsboro Boys
Open house held at site of museum set to open in February
http://tinyurl.com/yd8b2hu
Huntsville Times 21 December 2009


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**HISTORY
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**Jones farm patriarch breaks new ground
Readers line up to get signed book on prominent family
http://tinyurl.com/yae5e33
Huntsville Times 21 December 2009

**Speaking up for Alabama story
Students celebrate state's birth as part of history education
http://tinyurl.com/yaeu9yh
Huntsville Times 21 December 2009

**Holt street renamed to honor musician
Johnny Shines lived there until his death in 1992
http://tinyurl.com/yc43xjb
Tuscaloosa News 21 December 2009

**A Tide of football memories
http://tinyurl.com/ydtghfn
Huntsville Times 21 December 2009

**Looking Back [50, 25, etc., years ago in Tuscaloosa]
http://tinyurl.com/ybbywyp
Tuscaloosa News 21 December 2009

**Atlanta developer Jeff Notrica spent millions on historic downtown Birmingham
buildings that sit idle -- and worse
http://tinyurl.com/ye7w57g
Birmingham News blog 20 December 2009

**Scottsboro Boys museum's open house today
http://tinyurl.com/ycn5ppn
Montgomery Advertiser 20 December 2009

**40-year alliance between Reed, Hubbert transformed AEA into a political
powerhouse
http://tinyurl.com/ydueovy
Montgomery Advertiser 20 December 2009

**Before it was a park, it was their office
Retired miners remember toiling in Red Mountain
Birmingham News 20 December 2009, pp 11A, 15A

**Hundreds enjoy Bicentennial Birthday Bash [for Baldwin Co.]
http://tinyurl.com/ykytlax
Mobile Press-Register blog 19 December 2009

**Continental Eagle will phase out local production [operated 177 years]
Pratt-founded business will continue sales, marketing, R&D functions here
http://tinyurl.com/ycztt5k
Prattville Progress 19 December 2009

**Montgomery Bible mystery solved
http://tinyurl.com/yzpxxt9
Montgomery Advertiser 19 December 2009

**Ornament features Exchange Bank [opened in 1909]
http://tinyurl.com/ygeub37
Gadsden Times 19 December 2009

**Baldwin Bicentennial Bash, historical marker events on Saturday, Monday
http://tinyurl.com/yecjm2c
Mobile Press-Register blog 18 December 2009

**2009 December 17: Jasper native and actor George Lindsey is 74.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lindsey

**Continental Eagle to move production overseas [has operated in Prattville for
177 years]
http://tinyurl.com/y8etx2s
Montgomery Advertiser 16 December 2009

**2009 December 16: Alabama attorney/Southern Poverty Law Center founder Morris
Dees is 73.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees


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**CULTURE
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**UA law student profits with book on poor grammar [Sharon Eliza Nichols]
http://tinyurl.com/ylo79mu
Florence Times Daily 21 December 2009

**Black Keys producer sets record straight [about Muscle Shoals comments]
http://tinyurl.com/ygprnj3
Florence Times-Daily 21 December 2009

**Dot Moore, director at Guntersville's The Whole Back Stage, to be honored
Sunday
http://tinyurl.com/ydh5s7b
Huntsville Times blog 19 December 2009

**Alabama artist Daniel Moore protests part of ruling limiting uses of his
Crimson Tide artwork
http://tinyurl.com/ya9h75y
Birmingham News blog 18 December 2009

**Arts center could become downtown hub
http://tinyurl.com/yjxzcgg
Tuscaloosa News 18 December 2009

**UA student [Jameson Sanford] writes, directs Tuscaloosa Children's Theatre
production
http://tinyurl.com/yd5amuy
Tuscaloosa News 18 December 2009

**Popular principal publishes book of inspirational newsletters
[Terry Beasley of Fairhope]
http://tinyurl.com/yesvtqh
Mobile Press-Register blog 17 December 2009

**Book details [local] stories of hope in face of cancer
http://tinyurl.com/ybwb3bd
Florence Times Daily 17 December 2009

**Artist Nall to hold book signing Dec. 21 at Mobile Museum of Art
http://tinyurl.com/yl73ehj
Mobile Press-Register blog 17 December 2009


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**DEATHS
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**Margie Orr Carter: Woman radiated Southern charm
[Carter, who died Nov. 17, was Miss Alabama in 1948.]
Birmingham News 20 December 2009, p 12A

**Former Montgomery newspaper publisher H. Doyle Harvill has died
http://tinyurl.com/yd2ge6u
Montgomery Advertiser 18 December 2009


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

**[no entries this issue]


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

**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

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

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

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

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

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://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/education/35465/