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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Join us for a golf tournament benefiting the Alabama Humanities Foundation and the Birmingham Lions Club Foundation.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Pine Tree Country Club
8 a.m. Shotgun Start
You can select from the following price packages:
$125 Player Fee
$200 Sponsorship Sign Only
$450 Arranged Foursome Fee
$275 Hole Sponsorship and One Player
$600 Hole Sponsorship and Four [...]
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This year’s Alabama Humanities Awards Luncheon will be held Monday, September 13, 2010, at noon at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham.
The luncheon will feature our guest speaker, chief legal correspondent for CBS News Jan Crawford. We will honor Edgar Welden, 2010’s Alabama Humanities Award recipient, and the Robert R. Meyer Foundation as this [...]
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This has been a big year for Alabama’s beloved book, and now you have a chance to win a signed copy of your own!
The Alabama Booksmith will hold a raffle and auction for two copies of To Kill a Mockingbird. Each book has a cloth slipcase, the original 1960 jacket design, ribbon marker, and bookplate [...]
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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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I remember. In fact, I will never forget.
Exactly 40 years ago in the city of Montgomery and at a spot named Patterson Field a hard fought, nail-biting baseball game took place. It was on a late May night as the Ensley High School Yellow Jackets squared off against Montgomery’s mighty Robert E. Lee Generals.
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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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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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