By Randall Allen The genesis of this article goes back more than forty years. One Sunday afternoon my grandmother and I drove around Oak Grove Community, where she grew up. On Floyd Road (then called Pruitt Mill [...]
With masks over their faces, members of the American Red Cross remove a victim of the Spanish Flu from a home in St. Louis, MO, one of the first cities struck by the virus. Courtesy St. [...]
We southerners have long loved our football, especially the SEC. But did you know that many cultures, including ancient Europeans, the early Romans, and even Native Americans, played games similar to modern American football? The Ancient Greeks [...]
This ambrotype was created through a similar process to a daguerreotype although an ambrotype produced a negative image that became visible when the glass plate was backed by dark material. This particular ambrotype is of Nicholas [...]
"Sowing and Reaping," was printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on May 23, 1863 in response to the bread riot in Richmond, VA. Protests-turned-riots occurred in a number of cities across the South, including Mobile, AL, [...]
My grandmother was a fabulous seamstress. As a housewife, she stitched many of my clothes, and almost all the clothes of my mother and aunt until they were no longer in her home.I have fond memories of [...]
The Historical Society’s Banquet, themed around the remarkable Marquis de LaFayette, was an unmitigated success. We added two additional tables this year and still the event was, again, a “sell-out.” Held on August 4, 2017, at Del’avant, [...]
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