2012-06-07

Ed Bridges a friend to Alabama history



Dr. Ed Bridges is as tall and lean today as he was 30 years ago when he moved from Georgia to become director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. His perpetual smile is there, just as it has always been. Now 66, he has announced his retirement and while Dr. Bridges has aged little over the past three […]

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“Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.” President Ronald Reagan

Inside the Statehouse

Boys State turns 75

The American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary sponsors one of finest programs for high school students in Alabama. Boys State and Girls State is an event every June. Rising seniors in high schools all over the state are invited to these week long leadership confabs, which are held at major universities for the top high school leaders throughout the […]

Gone South

Mama ain’t gonna like this

I am sure you have heard the news that a company called Alabama Media Group will start publishing the Huntsville Times, the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press- Register online, and when this happens those venerable newspapers will no longer publish daily. Instead, they will appear in print on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. My mama ain’t gonna like this. Newspapers […]

3.5 million miles per hour.



 It was celebrated physicist Albert Einstein who made the following sage observation: “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”  It was in 1917 when one Dr. Walter G. Walford wrote an article warning readers of the perils of tight collars and ties, claiming that such constricting neckwear caused illness by retarding the flow […]

THE CIVIL WAR IN CLARKE COUNTY

Clarke casualty list was growing in June 1862


June 1862 was hot. Most Junes are hot— either today or 150 years ago. There would be more battles, more fighting and more dying in June 1862. The Democrat’s casualty lists of Clarke county soldiers killed or wounded had started growing and would continue to swell as the war progressed. Battle of Seven Pines On June 1, the Battle of […]