RECALLS DAYS WHEN ICE CAME DOWN FROM MAINE BY SHIPS Captain John Dorgan has Wealth of Memories after 55 Years Spent on "Old Man…
I remember the days when my grandmother and mother would make jelly. It was an all day process but there was always wonderful aromas…
During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
Are you having difficulty identifying people in photographs? Here are some tips to help... Unidentified Men at Camp Council Meeting, May 1939, Farmersville, CA…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
When Birmingham was a young city, this is what she looked like.... Notes about photos in the film. Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger…
(Transcribed from the Tuscaloosa News May 26, 1937) U. OF A. DEGREES AWARDED 468 IN FINAL EXERCISES 328 Men and 140 Women Are In…
Narrative of Former Slave Charlie Aarons, Oak Grove, Mobile, Alabama. Written August 6, 1937 (Born in Slavery, Library of Congress) This is the copy…
The “Old Tooth Pullers” by Hylott L. Armstrong, Jr. Sometime in the 1920’s my Grandfather, William Henry (“Bill Henry”) Crawford, moved from Edgewater (a…
During 1937, the Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt's New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the…
Construction of the B. B. Comer bridge was carried out by the Kansas City Bridge Company for the Alabama State Bridge Corporation. Its construction…
The Pettway family held the land of Gee's Bend until 1895 when they sold to it Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff, an attorney from…
Controversial calls reveal difficulties before instant replay in football Transcribed from The Tuscaloosa News -November 16, 1937 We look upon the Crimson Tide with…
These newspaper abstracts and more are also available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV Below are some Genealogy Queries published in The…
(Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled and grammar errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Annie L. Bowman, Escambia County,…
ALONG THE CORDUROY ROAD The old home place stood among large oak trees at the top of a hill, more of a rise actually,…
News from the Times Daily, Florence, Alabama November 17, 1931 In the midst of the Great Depression, with unemployment everywhere, the hope of…
NOTE: The 1932 film includes a graphic scene of recovering a body so please do not view it if you are sensitive to such…
HISTORIC TORNADO OUTBREAK ALABAMA March 21-22, 1932 (FROM: DARKEST HOURS by Jay Robert Nash) On March 21, 1932, Marion, Alabama was the first…
The Wooleys Located in Northport, Alabama This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VI- Scroll to bottom…
Ghost stories or a part of Alabama's past. Below are three unedited stories from 1939 written by a WPA writer who interviewed three African-Americans…
We ran across this amazing old film and could not find out more about it. The pilot's name appears to be Blaine and it…
[This funny story from 1937 reveals how popular automobiles had become over horse riding] No Riders! (from The Tuscaloosa News - July 2, 1937)…
Hueytown Debate Team April 4, 1939 (from Times Daily, Florence, Alabama April 4, 1939) Members of the Hueytown high school debating team, shown…
The Birmingham Airport opened in 1931. At the time of the opening a Birmingham to Los Angeles flight took 19 hours. It was dedicated…
The Great Depression brought migrant workers to Birmingham in 1937 [photographs] Scroll down for this Patron+ member story If this story is locked, click…
Words By Heart According to family lore, my first public speaking experience was in our little one-room church in Kentucky when I was three…
When was the last time you saw one of these? Do you remember when we looked forward to the weekend so we could make…
Christmas Surprise by Clifford Dobyns I was five years old in 1937 and unknown to me was that my parents had decided to get…
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