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Spectacular newsreel of a woman being blown out of a cardboard casket with dynamite & pilot crashing plane in Birmingham

Extreme sports are not new.  There were many stuntmen, often called ‘death dodgers’ that put on shows at state fairs throughout the country in the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 50s. Check out these amazing newsreels of events that took place in Birmingham, Alabama in the early 1900s of Helen Howell, the Dynamite Lady, and Blaine, a Pilot who […]

PATRON + Spanish, French and English immigrants move to Alabama – natives threatened [pictures & film]

IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE IN ALABAMA SLOWLY (The following was transcribed as written from: Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: From 1540 to 1872 By Willis Brewer published 1872) White population still came in slowly to the ‘Bikbee settlement, (Tombigbee settlement) for the hazards of penetrating the pathless wilderness which lay between it and […]