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ALABAMA HISTORY AND CULTURE IN THE NEWS
January-March 2004
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**Alabama Theatre is still going strong after 75 years
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 30 March 2004 7, 9
**A honey of a plan for Blakeley Park; New beehives to provide honey for
cash-strapped
park's fund-raising efforts]
Baldwin/Mobile Register 23 March 2004 1, 4
**Visting the high ridge country [Blues Old Stand]
Mobile Register 22 March 2004 1B, 3B
**Fairhope writer picks cover artist [writer/Fairhope resident Brewster Milton
Robertson
has chosen a painting by Fairhope artist Jo Patton for the cover of his first
novel, "A Posturing of Fools," forthcoming from River City Publishing
in Montgomery]
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 3G
**Demopolis' rich history brought to life [in Winston Smith, "The People's
City: The Glory
and the Grief of an Alabama Town, 1850-1874," published by Marengo Co. Hist.
Soc.]
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 6D
**Marshall Frady's legacy reaches beyond biographies [which include one of
George
Wallace; Frady died March 9
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 6D [reprinted from Charlotte Observer]
**Couple spend long hours tending House of Jordan [country store in Ebenezer]
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 7B
**Historic Neighborhoods: Builders question possible limits
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 1B, 3B
**Azalea Trail Maids hold reunion
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 1B, 5B
**Fairhope: [Rick] Bragg first occupant of writer's cottage
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 1B, 4B
**Alabama native finds success in movie business [Delvin Molden]
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 1E, 3E
**Investing in Mobile's heritage with Azalea Trail Bonds
Planting project will restore the colorful grandeur of Spring Hill Avenue
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 1E, 3E
**The once and future of Spring Hill Avenue
Mobile Register 21 March 2004 1E, 3E
**Steel poet, truth teller; Celebrating the centennial of John Beecher
Birmingham Weekly 11-18 March 2004 V7N28: 31-32
COMING UP
**Saturday [April 3]
Train rides at the Heart of Dixie Railroad, 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Ride on
the Calera & Shelby historic train, pulled by first-generation diesel
electric locomotives, or the Shelby & Southern, a steam locomotive.
Admission to the railroad museum is free. C&S train rides: $7 per child (age
2 and older), $8 per senior (age 60-plus); and $10 per adult. Combo ticket (both
trains): $9 per child, $10 per senior, $12 per adult. For information, call
668-3435 or 800-943-4490, or log onto www.heartofdixierrmuseum.org. 1919 Ninth
St., Calera.
Birmingham News 31 March 2004
**Opelika, Alabama is holding its Sesquecentennial Celebration on Saturday,
April 3, from 9 am - 5 pm.
AND NOW THE NEWS....
**Decorated WWII pilot dies at 82 [Harold Robert "Bobby" Case]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1080901078281270.xml
Mobile Register 2 April 2004
**Yesterday's News [...1854, 1904, etc...]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1080901086281270.xml
Mobile Register 2 April 2004
**Ceremony to recall those lost during '74 tornado outbreak
In North Alabama, 10 of them struck in just a few hours
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1080927901288620.xml
Huntsville Times 2 April 2004
**Month is Mobile's driest March [on record]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1080814601305840.xml
Mobile Register 1 April 2004
**Yesterday's News [from 1854, 1904, etc.]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1080814694305840.xml
Mobile Register 1 April 2004
**Author discusses Alabama's interesting cemetery finds
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/shelby.ssf?/base/community/108073004417391.xml
Birmingham News 31 March 2004
**115-year-old school called `magical place' [Concord Elem. Sch.]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/west.ssf?/base/community/108073042017390.xml
Birmingham News 31 March 2004
**1867 April 1- African Americans vote in a municipal election in Tuscumbia,
Alabama. Military officials set
aside the election pending
clarification on electoral
procedures.
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**Big hoops class set for Hall [Morgan Co. Sports Hall of Fame]
5 of 7 Morgan inductees for 2004 shined on court
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/sports/040329/hall.shtml
Decatur Daily 29 March 2004
**1932 March 21- A major outbreak of tornadoes from Mississippi eastward to
South
Carolina and northward to Indiana. Nearly all the deaths occurred in Alabama
making this the worst tornado day in the state's history. 31 twisters
touched down across Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. 36
tornadoes were rated F2 or greater on the Fujita scale with 10 violent (F4)
tornadoes. A total of 268 people were killed and over 2100 were injured.
FROM: The Weather Notebook
**Bonus Links
**Walker Evans Dies; Artist With Camera
[Evans took the photos for James Agee's famous account of Alabama sharecroppers,
_Let Us Now Praise Famous Men_]
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1103.html
New York Times 11 April 1975 [requires free registration for access]
**Joe Louis, 66, Heavyweight King Who Reigned 12 Years, Is Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0513.html
New York Times 13 April 1981 [requires free registration for access]
**Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama
http://www.CyndisList.com/al.htm
):
* New Links: 1
* Updated Links: 29
* Removed Links: 0
* Total Links: 3120
COMING UP:
**Alabama Bound: Celebrating Books and Authors [Bham Public Library 4/24/04]
http://www.alabamabound.org/
Birmingham Public Library 24 April 2004
**Worlds Apart: Birmingham, Al., Meets Ghana
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20040403.html
National Geographic Channel 3 April 2004 7pm
**Books and Company [Brookwood Village, Bham]
http://www.booksandco.com/events/bham04.html
[Readings/events through April 29, 2004]
**AND NOW THE NEWS...
**Aunt Eunice's memorabilia, not biscuits, will be preserved
Restaurant interior to be recreated at Huntsville Depot
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1080758731153490.xml
Huntsville Times 31 March 2004
**Auburn landmark closing
The Grille loses lease after 68 years downtown
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/108073012517390.xml
Birmingham News 31 March 2004
**Miller shuts city film panel
Too much fighting among members, councilman says
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/108073081217390.xml
Birmingham News 31 March 2004
**Tell us your twister story
Do you remember the "Super Tornado Outbreak" of April 3, 1974?
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1080758833153490.xml
Huntsville Times 31 March 2004
**Vote turns Pinson into newest city
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/108073063017391.xml
Birmingham News 31 March 2004
**Yesterday's News [from 1854, 1904, etc.] http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/108072993717350.xml
Mobile Register 31 March 2004
**Some observations on the eve of the 39th annual Eufaula Pilgrimage deserve
attention.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2235&dept_id=439673&newsid=11205228&PAG=461&rfi=9
Eufaula Tribune 30 March 2004
**Home of the not-quite dead [Gainestown, Clarke County]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/108055536882350.xml
Mobile Register 29 March 2004
**WRITING HIS WAY HOME [Alabama author Frye Gaillard]
... Now, Gaillard has authored a civil rights history -- "Cradle of
Freedom:
Alabama and the Movement that Changed America," published this month by
the University ...
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/108055533582350.xml
Mobile Register 29 March 2004
**Exploring the 'space' of music's Sun Ra [Bham native, jazz musician Herman
"Sun Ra" Blount]
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403280372
Tuscaloosa News 28 March 2004
**Memorial held for Hunley commander [Lt. George E. Dixon]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/108046890790410.xml
Mobile Register 28 March 2004
**A century of Lowe Mill
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/108046907190450.xml
Huntsville Times 28 March 2004
[This timeline accompanied the story "City chips in to help Lowe Mill;
Outreach by police, zoning changes, loans part of effort http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/108046912790450.xml
]
**Preservation groups make late effort to save old freight depot [in Huntsville]
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040328/preserve.shtml
Decatur Daily 28 March 2004
**Waitress gets a little fame for Waffle House singing
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1080382613231220.xml
Birmingham News 27 March 2004
**Hal Kemp [b. 3-27-1904 in Marion, Ala.; d. 12-21-1940]
Bandleader, appeared on such radio shows as "Phil Baker Show,"
"Lady Esther Serenade,"
and "Gulf Gas Program"
**Christian novelist says she writes real life [Bham native Vanessa Davis
Griggs]
Birmingham News 26 March 2004 1H, 3H
**Former Mobile baseball pioneer Jim 'Pig' Harris dies at 84
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1080209904314200.xml
Mobile Register 25 March 2004
**1980 March 31- Jesse Owens joins the ancestors in Tucson, Arizona at the age
of 66,
and President Jimmy Carter adds his
voice to the tributes that pour
in from around the world. Jesse
won four gold medals in track at
the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
1940 March 29- Joe Louis knocks out Johnny Paycheck to retain his heavyweight
boxing title.
1990 March 28- President Bush posthumously awards the Congressional Gold Medal
to
Jesse Owens and presents it to his
widow ten years after he joins
the ancestors. In 1936, Jesse Owens
won four Olympic Track and
Field gold medals in a single day in
Berlin. The 1936 Berlin
Olympics, the last Olympic Games
before the outbreak of WWII, were
hosted by the Nazi Germans, who
intended the event as a showcase
of their racist theories of the
superiority of the "Aryan" race.
But a 23-year-old African-American
named Jesse Owens shattered
their plans, along with several world
records, when he dashed to
victory in the 100-meter and
200-meter sprints, anchored the
victorious 400-meter relay team, and
won the broad jump. President
George Bush adds the Congressional
Gold Medal to Owens's collection.
Congress had voted the award in
recognition of Owens's humanitarian
contributions. After his
athletic career, he had devoted his energy
and his name to organizations
providing opportunities to
underprivileged youth.
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**Leinkauf turns 100; Former students seek alumni, faculty and parents
for centennial celebration April 25.
Mobile Register 22 March 2004 1D, 3D
**Former House sergeant-at-arms dies [Edward P. Dombrowski]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1079779669301290.xml
Mobile Register 20 March 2004
**JOURNALISM department honors 2 Alabama writers
http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/19/405ab204a15a0
Crimson and White [UA] 19 March 2004
**BIBLE Belt's Alabama fights over `official' state whiskey
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1079650755141600.xml
Associated Press 18 March 2004
**1899 March 18- A tornado, rated F4, killed 12 people and injured 30 on a 17
mile
track through Calhoun and Cleburne counties in Alabama.
1990 March 17- Torrential rains cause catastrophic flooding across the
southeastern
U.S. 22 people died, including 13 in Alabama. 16 inches of rain reported
across southern Alabama. Mobile 10.63 inches in 24 hours. Elba AL flooded
with more 6-12 feet of water, which caused $25 million in damage. Alabama
flood damage totaled $100 million. 26 Alabama counties declared disaster
areas. Columbus GA picks up 7.22 inches of rain to set their all time 24
hour record.
1990 March 16- 7.75 inches of rain in Montgomery AL.
1942 March 16- A widespread outbreak of tornadoes occurred across Mississippi,
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana. 25 tornadoes were of F2
intensity or greater. 75 fatalities occurred in Mississippi. Baldwyn,
Mississippi was hit by 2 tornadoes (one F4 and the other F3) only 35minutes
apart. A violent (F5) tornado tore through Peoria and Marshall counties in
Illinois, killing 7 and injuring 70.
1993 March 14- Storm of the Century roars up the East Coast. Record low
temperatures
left in its wake from Texas to Florida to the Great Lakes. record cold
followed in the wake of the "Blizzard of '93" over the eastern US with
57
daily record low temperatures broken. Birmingham, Alabama plunged to 2
degrees, by far breaking its previous March record low of 11 degrees.
Orlando, Florida recorded 33 degrees to smash its old daily record low by 9
degrees. It was also the coldest temperature ever recorded for so late in
the season.
FROM: The Weather Notebook
**Bonus Links
**Dauphin Island Lighthouse news:
http://www.alabamalighthouses.com/si_lite_latest_news.htm
http://www.alabamalighthouses.com
**History of depot not written yet
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/108032339680811.xml
Huntsville Times 26 March 2004
**Max Sokol, longtime retailer, dies
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/108029627472200.xml
Birmingham News 26 March 2004
**Freight depot may face bulldozers
Norfolk Southern says it'll demolish historic building
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1080240409160350.xml
Huntsville Times 25 March 2004
**UA professor retracts call for reparations, insists on apology
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403250335
Tuscaloosa News 25 March 2004
**On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the
state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to
blacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20040325.html
New York Times 25 March 1965 [requires free registration for access]
**No more day of rest for many shops in downtown Hartselle [many shops now open
on Wednesdays]
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040324/shops.shtml
Decatur Daily 24 March 2004
**'60 Minutes' filming dream at Space Camp
Program to help children began with one man's promise
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1080154006152970.xml
Huntsville Times 24 March 2004
**Vulcan to shine as lights go on; Statue visible from 5 miles under 5 million
lumens of light
Birmingham News 23 March 2004 1D, 6D
**EBay leads market for Birmingham treasures
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1079950653317070.xml
Birmingham News 22 March 2004
**Ocean's beauty, bitterness reflected in Cobb's stories [review Alabama author
Loretta Cobb's new short story collection
_The Ocean Was Salt_]
Birmingham News 21 March 2004 6F
**Hamden woman made history as a 'Freedom Rider' [Alabama native Lula White]
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1281&dept_id=517514&newsid=11153912&PAG=461&rfi=9
New Haven Register 21 March 2004
**On March 21, 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20040321.html
New York Times 21 March 1965 [requires free registration for access]
**Bible Belt's Alabama fights over 'official' state whiskey
http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2004/03/20/news/26whiskey.txt
New Orleans Times-Picayune 20 March 2004
**Music highways; Travel down memory lane to hit Alabama high notes [music
museums in Alabama]
Birmingham News 19 March 2004 20G-23G
**1965 March 25- The Selma-to-Montgomery march ended with rally of some fifty
thousand at Alabama capitol.
One of the marchers, a white
civil rights worker named Viola
Liuzzo, is shot to death on
U.S. Highway 80 after the rally by
white terrorists. Three
Klansmen are convicted of violating
her civil rights and
sentenced to ten years in prison.
1931 March 25- Nine African American youths are arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama,
for allegedly raping two white women.
Although they will be
quickly convicted, in a trial that
outraged African Americans
and much of the nation, the case will
be appealed and the
"Scottsboro Boys" will be
retried several times.
1965 March 21- Thousands of marchers complete the first leg of a five-day
freedom march from Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama, dramatizing
the denial of voting rights for
African Americans. Led by
Martin Luther King, Jr., thousands of
marchers are protected
by U.S. Army troops and federalized
Alabama National Guardsmen
because of violence encountered
earlier, including the fatal
beating of a white minister, Reverend
James J. Reeb.
1981 March 21- Michael Donald, an African American teen-ager in Mobile, Alabama,
is abducted, tortured and killed in
what prosecutors charge is a
Ku Klux Klan plot. A lawsuit brought
by the Southern Poverty Law
Center on behalf of Donald's mother,
Beulah Mae Donald, will
later result in a landmark $ 7
million judgment that bankrupts
The United Klans of America.
2000 March 20- Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap
Brown, is captured in Alabama. He was
wanted in the fatal
shooting of a sheriff's deputy in
Atlanta, Georgia. Al-Amin will
maintain his innocence.
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**Thousands gather to commemorate 1965 Bloody Sunday march
http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/08/404c3f94b029f
Crimson and White [UA] 8 March 2004
**Historical Commission delays ruling on
demolishing mansion [Bham Hist Comm; 95-y-o Otto Marx mansion]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1079693353287590.xml
Birmingham News 19 March 2004
**Ed Rogers chairs American Village fund-raising drive
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1079693118287590.xml
Birmingham News 19 March 2004
**Retired EMA coordinator James Jones dies http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/107970587075280.xml
Mobile Register 19 March 2004
**Col. Edward Dombrowski, former House official, dies [sergeant-at-arms, Ala.
House]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1079693458287590.xml
Birmingham News 19 March 2004
**Statue's broken head repaired [in Eclectic's Pleasant Grove Cemetery]
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryLocalangel18w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 18 March 2004
**Historic schoolhouse torched in firefighter training exercise
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1079635527253401.xml
Huntsville Times 18 March 2004
**Bramlett named to Healthcare Hall of Fame
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/107962291576130.xml
Mobile Register 18 March 2004
**Gingerly, a Comedian Comes Back [Paula Poundstone, an Alabama native]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/arts/18POUN.html?th
New York Times 18 March 2004 [requires free registration for access]
**1941 March 18- Wilson Pickett is born in Prattville, Alabama. He will
become
Rhythm & Blues singer and will
begin his career as the lead
tenor with The Falcons ("I Found
a Love" - 1962). He will
become a solo artist and release the
hits, "Funky Broadway,"
"In the Midnight Hour,"
"Land of 1000 Dances," "Mustang Sally,"
"It's Too Late," and
"Don't Knock My Love." He will be inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 1991.
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**Erwin wants Shelby film industry
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/shelby.ssf?/base/community/1079518836164301.xml
Birmingham News 17 March 2004
**Old school revival [Shelby County Training School]
Once all-black school gets life as community center
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/shelby.ssf?/base/community/1079518582164300.xml
Birmingham News 17 March 2004
**Leaders start planning city bicentennial
We'll turn 200 next year, but the party's already shaping up
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1079549175286020.xml
Huntsville Times 17 March 2004
**Athletics sealed career for sports hall honoree Cook [Susan Cook; Ala. H.S.
Sports HoF]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/south.ssf?/base/community/1079518776164300.xml
Birmingham News 17 March 2004
**In Talladega, Alabama, hearing and sight aren't requirements for the good
life.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0403/feature6/index.html
National Geographic March 2004 [excerpt from print version]
**Local artist who brightened the walls of The Chukker dies at 56
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403170349
Tuscaloosa News 17 March 2004
**Professor wants UA to apologize for slavery
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403170340
Tuscaloosa News 17 March 2004
**Former Autauga County leader dies [LeRoy Jones]
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryLocaljones17w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 17 March 2004
**New marker honors heroine [Rosa Parks]
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryLocalmarker316w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 16 March 2004
**Professor wants UA apology for slavery
Alfred Brophy will present proposal for university to consider reparations to
slave descendants
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1079432117324801.xml
Mobile Register 16 March 2004
**2004 Hall of Fame gala touching and hilarious [Ala. Stage and Screen Hall of
Fame]
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403150329
Tuscaloosa News 15 March 2004
**Book signings just part of the routine for Winston Groom
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403150336
Tuscaloosa News 15 March 2004
**UA Journalism Department to honor Cason Award Recipients
http://www.datelinealabama.com/article/2004/03/15/5588_news_art.php3
Dateline Alabama 15 March 2004
**TOMMY STEVENSON: Putting Vulcan on a pedestal
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403140313
Tuscaloosa News 14 March 2004
**Birmingham native Beecher's 30-year-old poems revived [John Beecher]
Birmingham News 14 March 2004 6F
**Artists find outlet for work at open mike in Cullman [at Whole Earth Store;
music and poetry]
Birmingham News 14 March 2004 28A
**Gurley's past may help form its future
Getting buildings on register could affect quarry bid
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1079173099160441.xml
Huntsville Times 13 March 2004
**Former barber shop owner Woodrow Smith dies [opened shop in 1946]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1079173183160430.xml
Mobile Register 13 March 2004
**Saxophonist, bandleader Joseph Morris dies after illness
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1079173166160430.xml
Mobile Register 13 March 2004
**Fire guts antebellum depot; Blaze-ravaged site in Huntsville state's oldest
railroad building
Birmingham News 13 March 2004 15A
**Spanish Fort considers Blakeley Park partnership
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1079088402191810.xml
Mobile Register 12 March 2004
**Preservationists one step closer to protecting mill villages' status
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/10791136253570.xml
Huntsville Times 12 March 2004
**In good old days, it was tough to get from here to there
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/10791136073570.xml
Huntsville Times 12 March 2004
**Fire ravages Huntsville depot; restoration chances unknown
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040312/APN/403120919
Tuscaloosa News 12 March 2004
**Indiana professor kicks off UA Race and Place Conference
Event to feature some 40 speakers on Civil Rights
http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/12/405168fd426fd
Crimson & White [UA] 12 March 2004
**Students take civil rights journey
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403120333
Tuscaloosa News 12 March 2004
**Former state Rep. Harrell Blakeney dies at 83
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/107900013492630.xml
Mobile Register 11 March 2004
**Historian hopes old freight depot destroyed by fire may rise again
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1079030800195060.xml
Huntsville Times 11 March 2004
**Marshall Frady, 64, Journalist Who Wrote Wallace Biography, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/11/arts/11FRAD.html
New York Times 11 March 2004 [requires free registration for access]
**Appeal to demolish property delayed [95-year-old Otto Mark mansion]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/south.ssf?/base/community/1078914175278380.xml
Birmingham News 10 March 2004
**City to revitalize revitalization; Haleyville's 1970s concrete structure to be
torn down
Birmingham News 10 March 2004 1D, 6D
**Vulcan reopens to public
Visitors from as far as Canada tour park closed for five years
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/107882732975670.xml
Birmingham News 9 March 2004
**1919 March 17- Nathaniel Adams Coles is born in Montgomery, Alabama.
Better
known as Nat "King" Cole,
he will start his musical career in
a band with his brother Eddie and in
a production of "Shuffle
Along." Leader of the King
Cole Trio, he will achieve
international acclaim as a jazz
pianist before becoming an
even more popular balladeer known for
such songs as "Mona
Lisa," "The Christmas
Song" and "Unforgettable." Cole will
also have the distinction of being
the first African American
to host a network television variety
show (1956-1957), a pioneer
in breaking down racial barriers in
Las Vegas, and a founding
member of the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences,
which will honor him with a
posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy
in 1989.
1956 March 16- Ozzie Newsome is born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He will
become
a stand-out football player for the
University of Alabama, and
the first African American star
athlete for a major school in
the south. Newsome will be
drafted by the Cleveland Browns
and start 176 out of 182 games in 13
years. He will be the
all-time leading receiver in
Cleveland history and the all-
time receiver among tight ends in the
NFL. Newsome will be
fourth among receivers in NFL history
with a record of 662
catches. He will earn three
trips to the Pro Bowl and will
be named to the All-NFL Teams of the
'80's. Newsome will
remain with the Cleveland Browns in
an administrative
position after his retirement.
In 1994 he will be inducted
into the College Football Hall of
Fame and in 1999 to the Pro
Football Hall of Fame.
1956 March 16- Former heavyweight champion Joe Louis, makes his debut as a pro
wrestler. He knocks out 320-pound
cowboy Rocky Lee. Jersey Joe
Walcott, the referee, is another
former heavyweight champ.
1999 March 13- Evander Holyfield, the WBA and IBF champion, and Lennox Lewis,
the WBC champion, keep their
respective titles after fighting
to a controversial draw in New York.
[Holyfield is an Alabama native.]
1946 March 13- Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African
American to command an United States
Air Force base, when he
assumes command of Lockbourne Air
Force Base in Ohio. [Davis was
one of the Tuskegee Airmen.]
1918 March 13- John Rhoden is born in Birmingham, Alabama. An art student
who
will study with Richmond Barthe' and
at Talledega College,
Rhoden's sculptures will have strong
romantic and classical
elements. He will receive
commissions for Harlem Hospital and
Metropolitan Hospital in New York
City, exhibit his work at
the Atlanta University annuals, the
Art Institute of Chicago,
and the Whitney Museum and be
represented in museums in the
United States and Europe. Among
his major works will be"Safari," "Eve,"
and "Quarter Horse."
1965 March 11- During civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, the
Reverend
James J. Reeb, a white minister from
Boston, dies after being
beaten by whites.
1926 March 11- Ralph David Abernathy is born in Linden, Alabama. He will
become
a famed minister, civil rights
advocate, and confidant of Martin
L. King, Jr. After King's
assassination, he will become the
president of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and
write an autobiography that will
attract widespread criticism for
his comments on King's alleged
womanizing.
1861 March 11- The Confederate Congress, meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, adopts
a
constitution which declares that the
passage of any "law denying
or impairing the right of property in
Negro slaves is prohibited."
1965 March 9- Three white Unitarian ministers, including the Rev. James J. Reeb,
are attacked with clubs on the
streets of Selma, Alabama, while
participating in a civil rights
demonstration. Reeb will later
die in a Birmingham, Alabama
hospital.
1871 March 9- Oscar De Priest is born in Florence, Alabama. He will be the
first [presumably African-American]
congressman elected from a northern state. He will
represent Illinois and be an active
advocate for pensions for
African American ex-slaves, lynching
prevention, and civil rights
improvements.
FROM: Today in Black History
**Bonus Links
**Mobile, AL Bios:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/bios.htm
Mobile County Cemetery:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/cemetery.htm
Mobile County History:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/history.htm
Mobile County Military:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/military.htm
Mobile County Postcards:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/postcards/
Mobile County Photos:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/photos.htm
Mobile County Obits:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/obits.htm
Mobile County Newspapers:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/newspapers.htm
Mobile County Vital Records:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/vitals.htm
Mobile County Court Records/Estate, Probate & Wills:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/mobile/wills.htm
Mobile County Homepage:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~almobile/
.............................................................
Baldwin County Bible Records:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/bible.htm
Baldwin County Cemetery Records:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/cemetery.htm
Baldwin County Census:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/census.htm
Baldwin County Land Records:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/land.htm
Baldwin County History:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/history.htm
Baldwin County Probate & Wills:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/wills.htm
Baldwin County Church Records:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/churches.htm
Baldwin County Military:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/military.htm
Baldwin County Newpaper Records:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/newspapers.htm
Baldwin County Obits:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/obits.htm
Baldwin County Vital Records: [marriage, births, deaths]
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/baldwin/vitals.htm
Baldwin County Homepage:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~albaldwi/index.html
**Janet Mosteller recalled for love of her faith,
joy of life
Civic volunteer and wife of dentist John H. Mosteller dies at 76
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1078913763278370.xml
Mobile Register 10 March 2004
**Vulcan reopens to public
Visitors from as far as Canada tour park closed for five years
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/107882732975670.xml
Birmingham News 9 March 2004
**Odessa Edwards, Gospel Singer With a Knack for Sermonizing, Is Dead [Edwards
was a
Birmingham native and resident; she died Feb. 22]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/08/arts/music/08EDWA.html
New York Times 8 March 2004 [Free registration required for access]
**Right to Bragg? Alabama native son will receive award despite career
controversy [author Rick Bragg]
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403080340
Tuscaloosa News 8 March 2004
**Beware of false preachers; Charlatan 'evangelists' deliver crime, salvation in
North Alabama's past
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/religion/040306/murrell.shtml
Decatur Daily 6 March 2004
**Tuscaloosa's 'Mother Teresa' dies at age 75
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403060335
Tuscaloosa News 6 March 2004
**1985 March 7- The record "We Are the World" is released as a single.
The song,
whose proceeds benefit African famine
relief efforts, is
written by [Alabama native] Lionel
Richie and Michael Jackson and produced by
Quincy Jones, with the singing
participants organized by Jones,
Harry Belafonte, and Ken Kragen.
To insure that the all-night
recording session went off without a
hitch and that the true
cause of the song was etched into the
hearts and minds of the
wide array of internationally known
talent performing, a hand-
written sign is placed outside the
studio at A&M Records in
Hollywood which simply said,
"Check Your Egos at the Door."
1965 March 7- John Lewis leads a group of civil rights marchers across the
Edmund
Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama,
where they are attacked by Alabama
state troopers and sheriff's deputies
with tear gas and
billy clubs. This violent
confrontation will be known as "Bloody
Sunday," and will spark the
historic Selma-to-Montgomery voting
rights march led by Martin Luther
King Jr. [The NY Times account is
here: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0307.html#article
]
1942 March 7- The first five cadets graduate from the Tuskegee Flying School:
Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. and
Second Lieutenants Mac Ross,
Charles DeBow, L.R. Curtis, and
George S. Roberts. They will
become part of the famous 99th
Pursuit Squadron.
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**`Other Mayberry' shows signs of bouncing back [town of Berry]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1078568251242150.xml
Birmingham News 6 March 2004
**Lawyer-author turns out sequel to 'Soulbane' book [Bham attorney Norman
Jetmundsen]
Birmingham News 29 February 2004 1F, 6F
**Memorial planned for black troops who fought at Blakeley
Baldwin battle had one of largest numbers of black soldiers in Civil War
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/baldwin.ssf?/base/news/1077790749221660.xml
Mobile Register 26 February 2004
**'Titan' gives A.G. Gaston his due [review of new biography]
Birmingham News 22 February 2004 8F
**BLACK WWII fighter pilot recalls history of Tuskegee Airmen
Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
... hot-dogging": During flying exercises, Eagleson would soar over her
mother's Alabama ... than 200 events last year to talk about the still
largely unknown history ...
<http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-449687.html>
Durham Herald-Sun 20 February 2004
**1807 Feb 20: Former U.S. VP Aaron Burr is arrested [in Alabama!] on charges of
plotting to
annex Spanish territory
in Mexico and Louisiana in order to establish
an independant republic.
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@mystery.com
**FMBC celebrates Black History Month
Troy Messenger - Troy,AL,USA
... This year it's strictly about Alabama black history. The questions
have already been given out and everyone should be working hard to find
the answers. ...
<http://www.troymessenger.com/articles/2004/02/18/news/story05.txt>
Troy Messenger 18 February 2004
**The Messenger Celebrates "Black History"
Juanita Luch Autherine Foster (1929-)
Gadsden Messenger 18 February 2004 13(37):45
**Celebrate Black History
Margaret Murray Washington (1865-1925)
Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
Gadsden Messenber 18 February 2004 13(37):13
**Veteran Memorial Nears Completion [at Noccalula Falls]
Gadsden Messenger 18 February 2004 13(37):18
**History of the Kiwanis Club of Gadsden
Gadsden Messenger 11 February 2004 13(36):35
**The Messenger Celebrates "Black History"
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute...
Gadsden Messenger 11 February 2004 13(36):44
**75 Years of Goodyear
Gadsden Messenger 11 February 2004 13(36):33
**From the Chairman and the Board of Trusteesof the WWII Memorial Park [in Hokes
Bluff]
Gadsden Messenger 28 January 2004 13(34):35
**Bonus Links
**Vulcan restoration
http://www.al.com/specialreport/?vulcan/
Birmingham News articles ranging from May 2003-March 2004
**Return of a Giant
A fully restored Vulcan-Birmingham, Alabama's 100-year-old statue-resumes it's
rightful place in town
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/mar04/poi.html
Smithsonian Magazine March 2004
**Mill villages may get a boost
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/107850877455100.xml
Huntsville Times 5 March 2004
**History's peal
Wesleyan bell ringing once more on UNA campus
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040304/NEWS/403040335/1011
Florence Times-Daily 5 March 2004
**Former family court judge William Green Jr. dead at 81
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040305/APN/403050796
Florence Times-Daily 5 March 2004
**Powwow to aid UA's Moundville
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403050317
Tuscaloosa News 5 March 2004
**Avant-garde poet focuses on past [Hank Lazer, V-P of Academic Affairs and
Professor of
English, U of A; his 11th collection, _Elegies and Vacations_, has just been
released]
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004403040306
Tuscaloosa News 4 March 2004
**Loan of `Christ' bust sought for centennial
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/107839543938710.xml
Birmingham News 4 March 2004
**Will Brother Bryan move again?
Hoover man campaigns to return statue to 1966 site at Vulcan Park's Prayer Point
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/107839551338711.xml
Birmingham News 4 March 2004
**Vulcan's queen recalls her special reign 65 years ago
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/hoover.ssf?/base/community/107830905427931.xml
Birmingham News 3 March 2004
**Rosa Gerhardt to be inducted into Women's Hall of Fame
First female president of Mobile Bar Association died in 1975
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/107830910327961.xml
Mobile Register 3 March 2004
**Playwright to speak at museum [Lee Eric Shackleford, UAB playwright-in
residence; Clay House Museum]
Sherlock Holmes story to be told 'magic lantern style'
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1078339562208701.xml
Huntsville Times 3 March 2004
**Council OKs American Village contract [Pelham City Council]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1078222736173590.xml
Birmingham News 2 March 2004
**Hartford gives serenity and power to residents [town in Geneva Co.]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1078136250276950.xml
Mobile Register 1 March 2004
**Volunteer tends old cemeteries [in Walker, Winston, and Marion counties]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1078136141276970.xml
Birmingham News 1 March 2004
**Day's Gap Civil War site listed as 'at risk'
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402290382
Tuscaloosa News 29 February 2004
**Alabama Civil War tourism yields to civil rights
http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/stories/MYSA29.04M.civil_rights_tourism_0229T.dfc3f63.html
San Antonio Express-News 29 February 2004
**Former Mobile architect Crowder dies at 80
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1078049809201920.xml
Mobile Register 29 February 2004
**Bay Minette City Council member dies
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1078049947201920.xml
Mobile Register 29 February 2004
**Mobile brothers have Coke and smile [Coca-Cola collection of Phil and Bill
Revere]
Birmingham News 29 February 2004 23A
**In the market for 'Bear' memorabilia? Try eBay Houndstooth suit goes on sale
Sunday
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402280345
Tuscaloosa News 28 February 2004
**Rick Bragg seeks stories near home; Pulitzer winner will speak at convention,
sign books
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077963302278620.xml
Huntsville Times 28 February 2004
**Longtime Decatur businessman Bill Wyker Jr. dies at age 90
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040228/wyker.shtml
Decatur Daily 28 February 2004
**Riley ends push to merge Confederate holidays
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040227/holidays.shtml
Decatur Daily 27 February 2004
**Country chapel offers refuge to all comers; Creola church is always open to
anyone in need
[St. Andrew's Chapel, 98 years old]
Birmingham News 27 February 2004, 4H
**Auburn Landmark lost? [Auburn Grille]
http://www.theplainsman.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/02/26/403e20739712b
Auburn Plainsman 26 February 2004
**Exhibit features black history [60 works in the "Her Story:
Self-Taught African-American Artists" exhibit in Biggin Gallery on Auburn's
campus]
http://www.theplainsman.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/02/26/403d6c600444a
Auburn Plainsman 26 February 2004
**Obituary: A 'fade-free' legacy, one barn at a time
Clark Byers, who painted ads on some 900 barns in 19 states and helped
popularize Rock City Gardens, dies at 89.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/21/Worldandnation/A__fade_free__legacy_.shtml
St. Petersburg Times 21 February 2004
[Byers was a native of Flat Rock, Ala., and also helped develop Sequoyah Caverns
into a
tourist attraction; see "Sequoyah Caverns' Jones family is no hole-in-wall
gang;
Caving in to history; Cave takes its name from past, relies on family for its
future"
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077877274315970.xml
Birmingham News 27 February 2004]
**1869 March 4- The forty-second Congress convenes (1871-73) with five African
American congressmen: Joseph H.
Rainey, Robert Carlos Delarge,
and Robert Brown Elliott from South
Carolina; Benjamin S. Turner,
of Alabama; Josiah T. Walls of
Florida. Walls is elected in an
at-large election and is the first
African American congressman
to represent an entire state.
1867 March 2-Howard University is chartered by Congress in Washington, DC. Also
founded or chartered are Talldega
College in Talladega, Alabama....
1867 March 2- Elections are ordered for constitutional conventions and freedmen
are enfranchised. Commanders in
some states change the status of
African Americans by military orders.
Major General E.R.S. Canby
opens the jury box to African
Americans. African Americans are
named policemen in Mobile, Alabama.
1960 March 1- The Alabama State Board of Education expels nine Alabama State
University students for participating
in sit-in demonstrations.
1960 March 1- Montgomery, Alabama, police break up a protest demonstration on
the Alabama State University campus
and arrest thirty-five
students, a teacher and her husband.
1949 March 1- Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion after holding
the title for a record eleven years
and eight months.
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**1864 Feb 17: CSS "HL Hunley" becomes first submarine to sink an
enemy ship.
[Hunley was built in Mobile]
FROM: Poor Gabriel's Almanac poorgabriel@mystery.com
**1934 Feb 25- Tornado outbreak in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. 19 killed
in at
least 6 tornadoes. Hardest hit was Bowden, GA and Shady Grove, AL. One home
in Lauderdale CO MS was picked up, thrown 400 feet and blown to bits. 6
family members were killed in the house.
1905 Feb 24- A -18 at Valley Head AL would stand as the state's record cold
reading
until 1966.
1975 Feb 23- F4 tornado hit the Holiday Inn in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Most of the
upper floor of the motel was sheared away and a housekeeper was killed.
1997 Feb 22- Alabama officials reported no serious injuries in from high winds
that unroofed many buildings. At Huntsville International Airport, part of
the fire station roof slammed into the National Weather Service office about
100 yards away.
1899 Feb 13- Arctic cold reaches the Gulf of Mexico. 7 degrees in New Orleans
and
Pensacola. Mobile AL recorded -1.
FROM: The Weather Notebook
**Goodyear-Gadsden to kick-off 75th anniversary celebration
Gadsden Messenger 4 February 2004 13(35):41
**Etowah County Sports Hall of Fame
Gadsden Messenger 4 February 2004 13(35):1, 33
**Bonus Links
**Old Huntsville Magazine
http://www.oldhuntsville.com/
**Jesse Owens Dies of Cancer at 66; Hero of the 1936 Berlin Olympics
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0912.html
New York Times 1 April 1980 [requires free registration for access]
**Sequoyah Caverns' Jones family is no hole-in-wall gang
Caving in to history
Cave takes its name from past, relies on family for its future
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077877274315970.xml
Birmingham News 27 February 2004
**Jackson's Welton Norwood, 75, dies
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077903959126500.xml
Huntsville Times 27 February 2004
**Founder of Pioneer closes cafeteria Sunday
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077790611221710.xml
Birmingham News 26 February 2004
**Daniel Brandon: Records sketchy on Huntsville's original black alderman
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/107782120462713.xml
Huntsville Times 26 February 2004
**Longtime employee at Star Market dies [Jody Turner]
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/107782121562710.xml
Huntsville Times 26 February 2004
**Riverchase genealogy club hooks students on histories [Riverchase Middle
School]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/shelby.ssf?/base/community/1077704131118312.xml
Birmingham News 25 February 2004
**Retired Mobile attorney Alton R. Brown Jr. dies
UA law school graduate was actively involved in Mobile-area civic and political
organizations
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1077723917312980.xml
Mobile Register 25 February 2004
**Grizzled bear caves going [Bham Zoo's second-oldest exhibit]
Zoo demolishing 1950s exhibit with eye toward future habitat
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077704136118311.xml
Birmingham News 25 February 2004
**Historical society sees change of officers
Jeanne Steadman is the new president of Madison group
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/107773480157920.xml
Huntsville Times 25 February 2004
**William Hooper Councill: A&M founder deserves fame for other roles, too
Former slave started a church, served as lawyer and legislator
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/107773479857920.xml
|Huntsville Times 25 February 2004
**Joe Louis sculpture is defaced; 2 accused
http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0402/24/d02-72661.htm
Detroit News 24 February 2004
**L.C. Jamar Sr.: Decision to publish for himself started something big
Go-getter was also a salesman, teacher and principal
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077648414292000.xml
Huntsville Times 24 February 2004
**J. Lamar Jackson, retired pastor, dies [Was pastor at Southside Baptist for 23
yrs.]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077633005149511.xml
Birmingham News 24 February 2004
[obituary is at http://www.legacy.com/birmingham/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=1962738
]
**Minister James Lamar Jackson Sr. dies at 86
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1077618006149630.xml
Mobile Register 24 February 2004
**Angry Confederates [editorial]
http://www.al.com/opinion/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1077648368292001.xml
Huntsville Times 24 February 2004
**PASSINGS: Babs Hodges Deal, 74; Novelist Nominated for Edgar Award
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-passings23.2feb23,1,7820688.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times 23 February 2004
**Confederate heritage groups dislike plan to combine holidays
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040223/holidays.shtml
Decatur Daily 23 February 2004
**Sacred Harp singing makes its way from Henegar to Oscars
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1077570847177910.xml
Associated Press 23 February 2004
**Nurse Dent: In the '40s, her battle was against poverty, not just racism
Health pioneer spent 44 years working in Madison County
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/107756198711862.xml
Huntsville Times 23 February 2004
**Joe Cain 'must have been a special guy'
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1077531321284160.xml
Mobile Register 23 February 2004
**Sports Hall of Fame gets help
Private, corporate donors bring back student field trips
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077531385284252.xml
Birmingam News 23 February 2004
**Store uses creativity, like the 1-design-per-church rule
At 127, store defies odds [Louis Crew & Co. in Goodwater]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077531305284250.xml
Birmingham News 23 February 2004
**Confederate holiday defended
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamaconfederacy23w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 23 February 2004
**Confederate heritage groups take aim at Riley's plan
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402230334
Tuscaloosa News 23 February 2004
**Bartell Coleman, WBHJ DJ, dies in cycle accident
Birmingham News 23 February 2004 1B
**Even with the future of his hot dog eatery in question, the owner of Jimmy's
Hot Dogs still has Dogged determination
Birmingham News 22 February 2004 1D, 8D
**Old man Vulcan still has it [Kathy Kemp column]
http://www.al.com/living/birminghamnews/kkemp.ssf?/base/living/1077445325170150.xml
Birmingham News 22 February 2004 1E
**Local family's proud of film based on kids' novel by aunt [Milam McGraw Probst,
one-time Bham resident, is
author of _A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street_; film version is entitled _The
Adventures of Ociee Nash_; see
also Bob Carlton's column, "Book blooms into movie for author"
Birmingham News 8 February 2004]
Huntsville Times 22 February 2004 G5]
**Mentone Springs eternal; Historic hotel gets elegant and earns accolades for
fine dining
Huntsville Times 22 February 2004 H1, H2
**An alphabet of groups researches local history
Each has its own area of expertise, with plenty of work to go around
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077444981170170.xml
Huntsville Times 22 February 2004
**UA magazine celebrates 30 years [literary mag Black Warrior Review]
Birmingham News 22 February 2004 20A
**Will Rice: High school dropout built empire and raised educators
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077445285170170.xml
Huntsville Times 22 February 2004
**Stockton's 1839 incorporation a 'surprise'
Existence of old records may cast doubt on legality of possible zoning district
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1077445376170050.xml
Mobile Register 22 February 2004
**BEN WINDHAM: The tale of Bloody Bibb County
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402220401
Tuscaloosa News 22 February 2004
**Quick trip: Montgomery
Cadillac, clothes Hank Williams died in form centerpiece of museum
http://www.al.com/entertainment/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1077445425170150.xml
Birmingham News 22 February 2004
**What's in a name? Community monikers explained
Huntsville Times 21 February 2004 E1, E8
**Big or small, they all loved Eunice
Restaurant owner recalled for her kindness, those biscuits
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077358603304740.xml
Huntsville Times 21 February 2004
**Times readers recall their favorite aunt [Eunice]
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077358692304740.xml
Huntsville Times 21 February 2004
**Historic Development Commission sets training
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1077358805304700.xml
Mobile Register 21 February 2004
**Longtime Alabama author Babs Deal dead at 74
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040220/APN/402200797
Florence Times-Daily 20 February 2004
[This Associated Press story also appeared in the Hville Times & Bham
News on 21 Feb 2004
and the Napa Valley [Ca.] Register on 21 Feb 2004; AP story in the Los Angeles
Times 24 Feb
2004 is linked above]
**Prominent physician Wright dies at 78
Local doctor noted for humility, care, inspiring others
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077299238136950.xml
Huntsville Times 20 February 2004
[obituary is at http://www.legacy.com/huntsville/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=1948204
]
**Arab's Elvin Light dies at 79 of cancer
Lifelong resident pushed to establish Historic Complex
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077299191136950.xml
Huntsville Times 20 February 2004
**Montgomery to honor boycott with bus
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryLocalmgmbus19w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 19 February 2004
**Plan to move Jesus meets resistance
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamaJESUS19W.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 19 February 2004
**Longtime mayor dies in car wreck [John Roberson of Rogersville]
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamabrf217w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 17 February 2004
**Alabama visitors can follow paths of civil-rights struggle
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/travel/articles/0215civilrights15.html
Arizona Republic 15 February 2004
**1965 Feb 26- During civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, that were
designed to get the attention of the
Johnson administration in
Washington, DC, police violence
erupts against the marchers. In
an effort to protect his mother from
a beating, 26 year old
Jimmie Lee Jackson strikes a police
officer. He will join the
ancestors after being shot and
killed. Civil rights activists,
outraged by his death, will plan a
march from the Edmund Pettus
Bridge in Selma to Montgomery.
1940 Feb 21- John Lewis is born in Troy, Alabama. He will become founder
and
chairman of SNCC, organizer of the
Selma-to-Montgomery March in
1965, executive director of the
Voter Education Project, and
congressman from Georgia's 5th
District. Lewis' power will
continue to be felt when he is named
Democratic deputy whip by Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley in
1991.
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**1899 Feb 12- In Alabama: Bitter cold had engulfed Alabama and Birmingham was
getting a four inch snowstorm.
1945 Feb 12- Two strong tornadoes hit central Alabama... one in Sumter County
was
a F3 and hit a 41-car train. 39 of the 41 cars derailed as the train crossed
the trestle over the Suchanoochee River. The conductor and fireman on the
train were killed and many others injured. Later that day, the north side of
Montgomery was devastated by a F3 that killed 26 people.
1958 Feb 12- Heavy snow and zero visibility are reported in the Gulf of Mexico
by
a ship 25 miles south of Fort Morgan AL. Tallahassee, Florida received 2.8"
of snowfall. 5 inches fell at Vermillion Locks, LA and 2 inches fell at
Burrwood LA. Tallahassee FL recorded 3 inches. Jacksonville FL picked up
their first measurable snowfall in 59 years with 2 inches.
1960 Feb 12- More than a foot of snow in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
FROM: The Weather Notebook
**Bonus Links
**Reviewed for H-South by Randal Maurice Jelks
S. Jonathan Bass. _Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin
Luther
King Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter
from
Birmingham Jail"_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press,
2001. xiv + 322 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-8071-2655-1; $17.95
(paper), ISBN 0-8071-2800-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=83321075790127
**Category Summary ( Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama - Localities
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**Board opposes plan to raze historic house [in
Highland Park; former Mary Lewis Convalescent Home is 95 years-old]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077272398110080.xml
Birmingham News 20 February 2004
**Sloss Furnaces: $2.5 million needed for visitors center
Corporate, private donations to help fund master plan
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077272387110080.xml
Birmingham News 20 February 2004
**Langford, Vulcan officials to meet
Efforts involve reuniting Moretti statue, bust of Christ
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077272225110081.xml
Birmingham News 20 February 2004
**Robert Taylor, former area Salvation Army chief, dies
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077272394110080.xml
Birmingham News 20 February 2004
**Uncle's Excelsior trumpet given to Museum of Mobile
Virginia Edwards looks back on the joy that surrounded legendary jazz band's
Mardi Gras appearances
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/107718573258000.xml
Mobile Register 19 February 2004
**2 influential black business leaders honored with signs [Charles Gratton and
Willie T. Etheridge, Sr.]|
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/107718582158020.xml
Birmingham News 19 February 2004
**Vulcan, 'Christ' reunion at issue
Langford wants bust here, but state disagrees
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/107718583258020.xml
Birmingham News 19 February 2004
**'Bear Bryant Show' host achieved much more
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402190312
Tuscaloosa News 19 February 2004
**Bust of Christ may visit Vulcan
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077101369219240.xml
Birmingham News 18 February 2004
**"Aunt Eunice" passes from our midst
More than restaurateur, Huntsville loses a folksy ambassador of goodwill
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077130014200181.xml
Huntsville Times 18 February 2004
**Noted lumberman, conservationist Ben C. Stimpson dies
Former Gulf Lumber Co. president was inducted into Alabama Business Hall of Fame
in 2002
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1077101269219180.xml
Mobile Register 18 February 2004
**Calhoun's dean of business, finance retires after 20 years
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077130011200181.xml
Huntsville Times 18 February 2004
**Hartselle chamber shows black history exhibits at the depot
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040217/exhibits.shtml
Decatur Daily 17 February 2004
**OFFICERS WHO DIED ON DUTY [Mobile area, past 30 years]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1077032700144120.xml
Mobile Register 17 February 2004
**Bill Gullahorn Jr. dies at 69; retired judge 'unselfish'
Former Marshall County jurist was church, civic leader
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1077043551206130.xml
Huntsville Times 17 February 2004
**Parsonage where King lived dedicated as museum [in Montgomery]
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402170330
Tuscaloosa News 17 February 2004
**Former host of Bryant's football show dies at 67 [Charles J. Thornton]
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402170336
Tuscaloosa News 17 February 2004
[TN obituary 18 February 2004 is here http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402180336
]
**Remembering a Titan [new biography of A.G. Gaston, "Black Titan"]
Birmingham News 17 February 2004 1D, 3D
**New book explores Jewish role in civil rights; [UAB] Professor [Raymond Mohl]
publishes study on race tension in Miami
Kaleidoscope [UAB] 17 February 2004 1-2
**Church dedicates King parsonage
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryLocalking16w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 16 February 2004
**New Vulcan Park to open to public on March 8
Forging ahead
Cast-iron icon will display city's history
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1076928447257451.xml
Birmingham News 16 February 2004
**Panhandle glory revived [author is Tim Hollis of Sumiton]
Author records Miracle Strip's history, drama
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1076928447257450.xml
Birmingham News 16 February 2004
**Theatre review 'Mockingbird' has power and warmth
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402160318
Tuscaloosa News 16 February 2004
**On wings of history [", Master Sgt. James Farrar Burns made history. From
the aircraft, Burns took photographs of the first plane landing on the continent
of Antarctica" in 1956]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/107684190515570.xml
Birmingham News 15 February 2004
**Montgomery attractions mark struggle for equality
http://www.al.com/living/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/living/1076840256169080.xml
Huntsville Times 15 February 2004
**Tuskegee University offers insight into history
'Black Harvard' was founded by Booker T. Washington
http://www.al.com/living/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/living/1076840212169080.xml
Huntsville Times 15 February 2004
**2 doctors here Local Legends [as selected by the Am Medical Women's Assoc]
http://www.al.com/business/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/business/1076840285169080.xml
Huntsville Times 15 February 2004
**Ancient artifacts go on display in Guntersville Museum show
Excavated from area, many will be shown to public for the first time
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1076753769321040.xml
Huntsville Times 14 February 2004
**UAB nets $388 million ["Thanks to a strong final month that brought in
$6.7 million, UAB's multiyear fund-raising drive ended with a total of $388.7
million, the largest fund-raising effort undertaken by a university in
Alabama."]
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1076755627203713.xml
Birmingham News 14 February 2004
**Former tennis pro Masterson dies at 90 [Lucy Laskey Masterson, member of
Alabama Tennis HOF]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1076755662203720.xml
Mobile Register 14 February 2004
**Civil rights deaths recalled
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamaCIVILRIGHTS14W.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 14 February 2004
**"'That Fabulous Redhead,' featuring Agnes Moorehead ... will play March 8
... at Murphy High School auditorium. ... The star, Agnes Moorehead, has made
one other appearance in Mobile. She was a part of the Paul Gregory-led, Charles
Laughton-directed troupe of 'Don Juan in Hell' which played here several years
ago."
FROM: Mobile Register 14 February 1954 [reprinted in "Yesterday's
News" column 14 February 2004]
**Sportscaster Mel Allen born in Birmingham
14 February 1913 [d. June 16, 1996]
**1963 Feb 20- Baseball great, Willie "The Say Hey Kid" Mays, signs
with the San
Francisco Giants as baseball's
highest paid player (at that
time). He will earn $100,000 a year.
1963 Feb 20- Charles Barkley is born in Leeds, Alabama. He will forego his
senior year at Auburn University to
enter the NBA as a forward
for the Philadelphia 76ers.
Barkley will post averages of 20 or
more points and at least 10 rebounds
per game for 11 seasons.
His achievements during that span
will be remarkable. He will
be an All-NBA First Team selection in
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and
1993, an All-NBA Second Team pick in
1986, 1987, 1992, 1994 and
1995 and an All-NBA Third Team choice
in 1996. He will be
selected to 10 consecutive All-Star
Games, and receive more All
Star votes than any other player in
1994, and will be MVP in
the 1991 All-Star classic.
2002 Feb 19- Vonetta Flowers becomes the first Black athlete from any country
to win a gold medal in the Olympic
Winter Games. She and her
partner win the women's two-person
bobsled event at the Salt Lake
City games. They finished their two
runs in 1 minute 37.76 seconds.
1941 Feb 17- Joe Louis retains his world heavyweight boxing crown by knocking
out Gus Dorazio.
1965 Feb 15- Nat King Cole, singer and pianist, joins the ancestors in Santa
Monica, California at the age of 45.
He succumbs to lung
cancer. [Born March 17, 1919, in
Montgomery]
1934 Feb 5- Henry (Hank) Aaron is born in Mobile, Alabama. After starting
his major league baseball career with
the Milwaukee Braves in
1954, he will distinguish himself as
a home-run specialist.
Aaron will be considered by some, the
best baseball player in
history. Over his 23-year Major
League Baseball career, he will
compile more batting records than any
other player in baseball
history. He will hold the record for
runs batted in with 2297,
and will be a Gold Glove Winner in
1958, 1959, and 1960. His
most famous accomplishment will come
on April 8, 1974, when at
the age of 40, he will hit a 385-foot
home run against the Los
Angeles Dodgers, surpassing Babe
Ruth's record of 714 career
home runs. He will end his career
with 755 home runs. In 1982,
he will be inducted into the Baseball
Hall of Fame. After his
retirement, he will return to the
Atlanta Braves as a vice-
president for player development, and
will be promoted to senior
vice-president in 1989.
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**Black airmen talk to youth
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryLocaltuskair12w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 12 February 2004
**Fire destroys 3 Tuskegee buildings
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamatuskfire11w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 12 February 2004
**Building lost, but not 'News' [in Tuskegee]
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamanews12w.htm
Montgomery Advertiser 12 February 2004
**Memorial dedication set for Chelsea's [150 year-old] Quinn Cemetery
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/shelby.ssf?/base/community/107589158211540.xml
Birmingham News 4 February 2004
**A book that's hard to put down [ALL-TIME GREATEST ALABAMA SPORTS STORIES ]
http://www.al.com/opinion/independent/index.ssf?/base/columnists/1075457716286080.xml
Montgomery Independent 30 January 2004
**1981 Feb 10- Tornado at Bay Minette Alabama strikes middle school. The
school's
gymnasium was severely damaged and several students injured.
1990 Feb 10- 29 tornadoes reported across the southeast. 245 reports of large
hail
and damaging winds. 70 people injured in Alabama
and Georgia.
1994 Feb 10- Major ice storm strikes parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and
Louisiana. Mississippi was hardest hit with up to 6 inches of ice
accumulation in some areas. Up to $1.3 billion in timber was destroyed by
the storm. 80,000 utility poles were downed and some people were without
power for up to a month in Mississippi.
1966 Jan 30- All time record cold for the following states: Alabama (-27F) at
New Market....
1936 Jan 30- Birmingham, Alabama recorded eleven inches of snow. It still stands
as the most snow ever recorded in any January in the Magic City.
FROM: The Weather Notebook
**Bonus Links
**Opelika Sesquicentennial Year Calendar of Events 2004
http://www.opelika.org/newsevents/2004/index.html
**On Feb. 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate
States of America in Montgomery, Ala.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20040218.html
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** Title: Call for Papers
Deadline: 2004-05-01
Description: What is a Southerner? This is a call for
contributions to a collection of essays on
southern Identity.
The goal is to publish the collection with a
University Press
specializing in southern history. The idea,
naturally born in a
conference hotel bar, is to explore what
historically it has
meant to b ...
Contact: derekcatsam@hotmail.com or derek.catsam@mnsu.edu or
jeff.woods@mail.atu.edu
Announcement ID: 136686
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=136686
** Title: Southern Self-Taught Art
Location: Georgia
Date: 2004-03-15
Description: Call for participation in two projects on
Southern Self-Taught Art. Participation in panel
at the 2005
College Art Association conference in Atlanta,
February 2005;
Self-Taught Art in the Old and New South Charles
Russell, Dept.
of English, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102
and Susan Craw...
Contact: crr@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Announcement ID: 136702
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=136702
**Parking: City approves 1825 house to be
moved a mile away
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1076694409174300.xml
Huntsville Times 13 February 2004
**Annual singing celebrates Sacred Harp
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402130308
Tuscaloosa News 13 February 2004
**Webb's Barbershop is relocating
Webb's Barbershop, near the entrance to the U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Training
Center, where Mobile's first female barber still trims hair, is relocating
Monday, the owner said.
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/107658286273892.xml
Mobile Register 12 February 2004
**Tuskegee Airmen help teach students
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/107658303973911.xml
Birmingham News 12 February 2004
**Slavery exhibit tells boy's story [features collection of works by Bham
native and artist Dr. Lorenzo Pace]
Children's book part of 'Locks, Burial and Freedom' show
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1076611646150351.xml
Huntsville Times 12 February 2004
**Victims' families, police join civil rights gathering
Birmingham strives to send message of change in South
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1076611501150350.xml
Huntsville Times 12 February 2004
**Helmut Werner, 67, Executive at Mercedes, Dies [he was responsible for
Mercedes' first American plant in Alabama]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/business/11WERN.html
New York Times 11 February 2004 [requires registration for free access]
**Historic grave site vandalized [in Daphne]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/baldwin.ssf?/base/news/107640994167920.xml
Mobile Register 10 February 2004
**Monument to teachers is proposed
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1076438800296170.xml
Huntsville Times 10 February 2004
**Folsom, who helped improve care of mental patients, dies
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402100337
Tuscaloosa News 10 February 2004
**Alabama rich in civil rights history
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402100316
Tuscaloosa News 10 February 2004
**Kendall Parker Dexter, former I[nternational]P[aper] official, dies
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/107641004167920.xml
Mobile Register 10 February 2004
**Thacker retires after 37 years working for House
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-5/107645874352392.xml
Associated Press 10 February 2004
**Everything old is new again in plan to remake First Avenue South block
Birmingham News 10 February 2004 1C-2C
**Old house downtown will be moved to a new home
Historic Clemens House going to a site near advocacy center
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/107635242197821.xml
Huntsville Times 9 February 2004
**Decatur businessman, Cuban native dies at 79
Owner of Mando's Italian Foods called patriot, inspiration
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/107635241397820.xml
Huntsville Times 9 February 2004
**Beatles invasion sparked backlash in Alabama after Lennon coment
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1076445309165122.xml
Associated Press 9 February 2004
**Filling in area history
Librarian puts Decatur black facts into quiz
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040208/librarian.shtml
Decatur Daily 8 February 2004
**Rick Bragg to speak here at convention
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1076235493274783.xml
Huntsville Times 8 February 2004
**Buffalo Soldier dream nears reality
Tribute to black members of U.S. cavalry seen likely for fall
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1076235436274780.xml
Huntsville Times 8 February 2004
**Pulitzer Prize Winner at Princess
'To Kill a Mockingbird' opens Friday
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/diversions/040208/mockingbird.shtml
Decatur Daily 8 February 2004
**Beloved doctor dies from illness [Dr. Robert Snow, pediatrician for 45 years]
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402080360
Tuscaloosa News 8 February 2004 [obituary is at http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402080343
**DANA BEYERLE: Sanders' book focuses on weight problem
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004402080311
Tuscaloosa News 8 February 2004
**Deceased admiral had many ties to Mobile
Thomas H. Moorer died Thursday
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1076150713265750.xml
Mobile Register 7 February 2004
**"The famed Ed Sullivan, newspaper columnist and star of the Toast of the
Town, TV variety program, will bring a group of entertainers to Mobile for a
March 30 show in Ladd Memorial Stadium. Proceeds will go toward the recreation
fund of the Mobile Touchdown Club. He will bring several star performers with
him. The above picture was taken when arrangements with Sullivan were completed
in New York City. Sullivan ... poses with B.R. (Babe) Wilson, president of the
Mobile Touchdown Club, and H. S. (Buck) Rawlings, local businessman."
Mobile Register 7 February 1954 [reprinted in "Yesterday's News"
column 7 February 2004]
**Brown's Grocery keeps old-fashioned country feel
http://www.al.com/living/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/living/107589205911541.xml
Birmingham News 5 February 2004
**War of 1812 demonstration set Saturday [at Ft. Morgan]
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/baldwin.ssf?/base/news/1075977990157180.xml
Mobile Register 5 February 2004
**1966 Feb 11- Willie Mays signs with the San Francisco Giants for $ 130,000
a year. At the time, this is
one of the highest salaries in
professional baseball.
1971 Feb 9- Satchel Paige becomes the first African American elected to
professional baseball's Hall of Fame
for his career in the Negro
Leagues. [Paige was a Mobile native.]
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**1996 Jan 26- Birmingham, AL recorded 4.71 inches of rain during strong
thunderstorms, setting a record for the most January rainfall ever in the
Magic City.
1940 Jan 26- Alabama and the Deep South were in the deep freeze. The official
reading at the Birmingham City weather office was 1F. The airport reading,
the official location now, was -10 degrees. Skaters were actually able to
skate on the frozen surface of the Black Warrior River west of Birmingham,
where ice was six inches thick near the banks. An unheard of event! The cold
followed on the heels of a ten inch snowfall on January 23rd.
1997 Jan 24- Rare mid-winter tornadoes strike parts of Alabama and Tennessee.
One
twister struck the eastern part of Tuscaloosa Alabama, killing one person
and injuring eight. The tornado struck a strip shopping center, crushing the
roof of a crowded grocery store and tossing cars in the parking lot like
toys.
1955 Jan 23- Mobile Alabama recorded its largest snowfall in 55 years as 3.5
inches fell.
FROM: The Weather Notebook
**Most movies that focus on Alabama are usually good
http://www.al.com/news/independent/index.ssf?/base/news/107307091615860.xml
Montgomery Independent 2 January 2004
**An interview with Big Fish author Daniel Wallace
http://www.al.com/news/independent/index.ssf?/base/news/107307090215860.xml
Montgomery Independent 2 January 2004
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