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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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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Selling that is not selling is often the best selling. That’s something Mr. Ford knew and why he was one of the best. Mr. Ford, oddly enough, sold Buicks. He lived in a town a half hour’s drive from the dealership where he worked. Just about every day, Mr. Ford drove a different customer’s Buick [...]
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Have you met Bud? He is a kind man who is nearing retirement. He also owns some property that is not yielding the financial return he had expected. To double Bud’s trouble, the property is highly appreciated. He would have to pay Uncle Sam a large amount of capital gains tax if he found a [...]
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A story credited to Mark Twain is that there once was a steamboat on the Mississippi River, which stopped dead still in the water every time its whistle was blown. It couldn’t proceed until more steam was developed. With that thought in mind, we will not blow too much of an AHF horn regarding the [...]
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As the story goes…an elderly, die-hard golfer from Fosters passes away from this old world and finds himself at the pearly gates. St. Peter unfolds the Book of Life and tells the old golfer that he has lived an exemplary life and can enter. Of course, the first question the man asks St. Peter is, [...]
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There is a saying around Enterprise, Alabama: “If you paddle your own canoe, there is no one to rock the boat.”
Last week I heard a story from a small town, not far from the Enterprise city limits. A farmer used to sit on a stone ridge that crossed his land and mourn over the lack [...]
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On June 25, 2009, AHF joined several other organizations in the second-annual Cultural Leadership Summit. This one took place at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, and it featured Alabama Power CEO Charles McCrary as the keynote speaker, as well as a panel discussion of several cultural leaders from across [...]
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A service station attendant in Bessemer was swarmed with last minute customers at the start of a long holiday weekend. He shook his head in disgust as he said to a preacher next in line, “It’s funny to me that people always wait until the last minute to prepare for a trip they knew they [...]
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At the age of 57, Eleanor Roosevelt looked back on her life and wrote, “Somewhere along life’s way we discover what we truly are, and then make real decisions for which we are responsible.” The same is true about an individual’s will.
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