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Mobile movie houses, now with air conditioning and the ‘crooniest, spooniest’ pictures! (Yesterday’s News)

Alabama Notes — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:53:17 +0000

On this day in 1936: Several the city’s film houses were grouped under the banner: “Mobile’s Cooling Stations,” and called attention to their air conditioning. And in 1961 one native-born Mobilian was not afraid of the fact she had a parent who fought for

Fort Morgan repairs fix leak problems more than 160 years old

Alabama Notes — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:00:29 +0000

FORT MORGAN, Alabama — After a 3-year repair project, fort officials believe a leak that has plagued one area since well before the Civil War may be in check.

Commemorations mark 150th anniversary of Civil War’s Manassas battle

Alabama Notes — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:50:34 +0000

MANASSAS, Virginia — The North thought it would deliver a crushing blow to the Rebel Army on its way to capturing the Confederate capital in Richmond. The South thought a decisive battle would prove to the North that the Union could Read more from The Birmingham News

Re-enactors compress history as they celebrate Civil War’s 150th anniversary

Alabama Notes — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:39:55 +0000

Some worry too many events may produce fatigue for re-enactors and the general public. Read more from The Birmingham News

Historians hope key role of black spies for North will be honored during Civil War anniversary

Alabama Notes — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:29:09 +0000

Often little is known of their work because records were destroyed to protect after the war. Read more from The Birmingham News

Fort Gaines declared among nation’s most endangered historical sites

Alabama Notes — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:28:52 +0000

Dauphin Island’s Fort Gaines, a Civil War battle site that spawned one of the most famous quotes in naval history, was named today among the country’s most endangered historical places.

‘Minie Ball’ invented for guerrilla warfare; even in ’61, Visitation Monastery heavenly hash a tasty treat (Yesterday’s News)

Alabama Notes — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:06:37 +0000

In 1861, the “Minie Ball,” which “makes a most deadly weapon of any shotgun of substance is invented” and in 1961 the nuns of Mobile’s Visitation Monastery were just as famous then as now for their heavenly hash.

Big iron deer becomes Civil War hero; Mobile butchers organize (Yesterday’s News)

Alabama Notes — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:39:26 +0000

Mobile butchers organize into a union, the big iron deer in Washington Square is honored as a Civil War here … all on this day in history.

Prizes to children for ‘trying to be good;’ judge makes gavel from Mobile’s first wharf (Yesterday’s News)

Alabama Notes — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:09:40 +0000

Two Mobile-based Confederate companies ordered to Richmond, Virginia; a Mobile schoolteacher awards prizes “for trying to be good children;” Honorable P.J. Hamilton fashions a gavel from a cedar log taken from the city’s first wharf built in 1711 … all

‘Mystery’ shipwreck artifacts will tell unwritten story about Civil War-era Mobile

Alabama Notes — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:27:53 +0000

A Gulf Shores company plans to tell a previously unwritten story about the Civil War era along the Alabama coast today by unveiling artifacts from a “mystery” shipwreck. Marking the 150-year anniversary of the shipwreck just southwest of Fort Morgan, David Anderson, CEO of Fathom Exploration…