Submitted by the author Dorothy Graham Gast –“I was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but spent most of my childhood on the family farm in Romulus southwest of town surrounded by family, grandparents, aunts and uncles.” The Sound of a Diploma by Author Dorothy Graham Clements Gast More by Dorothy Graham Clements Gast This fall my […]
Do you remember curb market day? Contributing author, Dorothy Graham Gast, reminds us with a personal story of her own. Grandma at the Curb Market by Dorothy Graham Gast Saturday was curb market day. Long before daylight cars and trucks loaded with produce would travel down gravel roads to the highways and into Tuscaloosa. Behind […]
The Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in the U.S. state of Alabama. The cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range. Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths […]
Frequently, when I am conducting research for a story I am writing, I discover another very interesting story related to it and I often make a note to follow it when I find the time. Sometimes, I find some pretty pretty remarkable people and this is the case with this story. My research started when I wrote, Did you know Birmingham, Alabama […]
Franklin Buchanan, a hero of the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama (1800-1874) Baltimore, Maryland Franklin Buchanan was born Auchentorlie, a family estate near Baltimore, Maryland on September 17, 1800. He was the fifth and third son of Dr. George Buchanan, a physician, and Laetitia McKan, the daughter of a prominent Philadelphia family. He obtained a […]
