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Horton Foote: The playwright’s ’Odyssey’ for modern times
Epic nine-hour ’The Orphan’s Home Cycle,’ opening in New York, explores how people face adversity and the elusive search for home.
“The Pillared City: Greek Revival Mobile,” by John S. Sledge, Photography by Sheila Hagler
In Alabama, Greek Revival may have flourished best in Mobile, but when planters from the Black Belt came to town to meet with their cotton factors and to shop, they liked what they saw and sometimes had their country rural places built in this style.
“Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944” by James L. Noles and James L. Noles, Jr.
WWII veterans are passing on now at a rapid rate and the generation that came home and resumed civilian life and said so little about their experiences will soon be silent forever. Their stories, like the ones the Noleses have captured in this book, must not be lost.
Alabama Illustrated: Engravings From 19th Century Newspapers
Although the five illustrated newspapers from which the engravings in Alabama Illustrated were taken were all published elsewhere, two in New York, two in Boston and one in London, the readers of these papers had a strong curiosity about life in the American South.
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