Now on the AHF website are nearly 100 photos of our recent To Kill a Mockingbird events in Birmingham and Montgomery. The events included a panel discussion at Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church on the impact of the book on the legal profession and the court system; an opening night exhibition reception and silent auction [...]
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In a previous blog post, I described a visit to two sites in Washington, the new U.S. Capitol Visitors Center and the Folger Shakespeare Library, where Alabamians have become somewhat notable fixtures. In the case of the visitors center, it is the statue of Helen Keller as a child. At the Folger, it is a [...]
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In one of his most memorable lines in To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch tells his daughter, Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” The line has sometimes been misquoted as walking in someone else’s shoes. [...]
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In the AHF-organized exhibition, “TKAM 2010: To Kill a Mockingbird—Awakening America’s Conscience,” are two arresting portraits: “Slavery” by Nall, and “Charles” by Caleb O’Connor. Neither work was executed specifically for the show, though Nall created “Slavery” in 2006 as an icon for the “Violata Pax” exhibition in Monaco using references to the book. Nevertheless, both [...]
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Alabamians have been fixtures for decades on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Celebrated senators and congressmen—Carl Elliott, Bob Jones, Lister Hill, John Sparkman, Howell Heflin and others—have helped shape national policy and profoundly influenced American history in the 20th century. In a recent visit to Washington, however, I discovered two new additions to Capitol Hill, [...]
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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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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 were [...]
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