“If exposure is essential, still more so is the reflection.” Eudora Welty, from Foreword, One Time, One Place With the exhibition “Eudora Welty: Exposures and Reflections” opening September 2 at the Museum of Mobile, I am reflecting on my memory of Eudora Welty’s visit to Agnes Scott College in 1977. She seemed elderly as she [...]
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Bert Kaempfert was a little known orchestra leader, a songwriter and arranger during the “big band” era of the 1950’s. His recordings enjoyed only moderate success until he recorded “Red Roses for a Blue Lady,” a song that had been around for two decades without hitting the charts. German born Kaempfert’s rendition of this tune, [...]
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Bettina Byrd-Giles gets you thinking. She gets you thinking about the origin of your family’s name, about your heritage and about the variety of backgrounds represented in Alabama yesterday and today. In her Road Scholars Speakers Bureau presentation “The Cultural Evolution of Alabama,” Mrs. Byrd-Giles shows us that the 22nd state is not monocultural.
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Thanks to Jake Reiss and his staff at Alabama Booksmith for helping raise more than $4,300 for AHF! Jake raffled and auctioned off two signed copies of To Kill a Mockingbird at his Homewood store on August 11. Customers donated $5 for every raffle ticket, totaling about $2,000, and the lucky auction winner took home [...]
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NEH Chairman Jim Leach was a big hit in Birmingham on July 29, delivering a talk on civility and American politics at Samford University and participating in a series of meetings and tours around the city. This was his first visit to Birmingham or Alabama since he was a young child, and he was extremely [...]
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