After reading the article about industrial baseball leagues in Alabama and Vulcan Park and Museum’s “From Factory to Field” exhibition in the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of Mosaic, Doug Purcell, executive director of the Historic Chattahoochee Commission, sent us this photo and message:
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As part of its commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publishing of To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM), and to celebrate the book’s lasting significance for the state, country and the world, AHF has asked select local, statewide and national artists to create original works of art inspired by the book and its [...]
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The pigeons stood shivering next to the frozen fountain in front of our office building. Snow was in the forecast for Valentine’s weekend. Everyone was thinking the same thing: must be winter in Alabama.
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The Alabama Humanities Foundation has launched ahf.net/speakersbureau, our first-ever online Road Scholars Speakers Bureau catalog. We are now accepting requests for speakers bureau programs.
We would also like to take this time to point out new changes in our booking procedures and guidelines that are highlighted below.
New guidelines and procedure changes effective January 1, 2010:
AHF will [...]
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I was personally delighted when the grants committee of the Alabama Humanities Foundation recently provided funding for a baseball program developed by Vulcan Park and Museum. “From Factory to Field” is an exhibition, opening April 1, 2010, that celebrates the 100th anniversary of Rickwood Field and the history of baseball as a reflection of the [...]
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I had a special reason to celebrate the University of Alabama’s victory over the University of Florida in the SEC Championship game on December 5. At the Federation of State Humanities Councils’ national conference in November, I made a wager on the game with the incoming chairman of the Federation board, David Colburn. David is [...]
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At its October 16 business meeting, the Alabama Humanities Foundation Board of Directors elected new members to the board.
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AHF Board member Billie Jean Young, Ph.D., was among five Alabama women inducted into the Southern Rural Black Women’s Hall of Fame.
The Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative was founded in 2005. Every two years it honors five rural black women from each of the three states included—Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.
The five women [...]
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Among my many faults is my love for music. I love sports in a sinful way as well, but that is a story for another day. There is a saying around the Tuxedo Junction section of Ensley: “The man who sings his own praise will usually be singing a solo, and will almost always pitch [...]
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Note: this is a reprinting of a Birmingham News article, which ran on October 11, 2009. The original article can be found here.
U.S. CAPITOL’S NATIONAL STATUARY HALL: Curry comes home barely known
By Jim Noles
On Wednesday, it was out with the old and in with the new in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall collection. In [...]
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