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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Only days before we arrived for the Federation of State Humanities Councils’ national conference in Omaha, Nebraska, in November, the city’s famed “oracle,” investor Warren Buffett, announced that he was buying Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. I don’t know whether Buffett, from his Berkshire Hathaway offices, can see either the BNSF tracks or those of [...]
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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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The day began with my reading a New York Times news service report about a 4.4-million-year-old hominid skeleton found in Ethiopia by an international team of scientists. Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, stood 4 feet tall with a brain about the size of a modern chimp. The report noted that her hands and arms were [...]
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In my last blog, I described my discovering a 1970s project about the Creek Indians in our 1980 “catalog of projects.” In those days, AHF was called the Alabama Committee on Humanities and Public Policy. Almost all the projects we supported focused on the relationship of history, [...]
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Occasionally, we get a call or e-mail from someone, or we read something in the newspaper, which leads us out of the office to explore a community, visit a humanities-related organization, or meet an Alabamian who shares our interest in the humanities. But sometimes we are contacted about a project that leads us to explore [...]
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I am extremely fortunate to be related to two incredibly talented individuals, Carl Stewart and Barbara Evans. As my half-siblings, they share the same father with me—the late Carl Stewart, Sr.—who was born and raised in Munford, Alabama. All three of us, as well as my brother, Wheeler, were born there, too.
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Don’t stop reading this blog because you saw the word “acorn” in the title! I’m not writing about that ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). You know: the one that was in the press so much during last year’s presidential campaign.
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