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February 2, 2018 Alabama / Librarians/libraries

Mrs. Weatherly served as Librarian, Janitor and Handyman

Mary Weatherly founded the DeKalb County Library (1930), and established Ft. Payne, AL’s first local literacy program (for which she served as teacher) in 1961.

All the machinery stopped and the lights went out

Before the days of TVA & large power companies, electricity was supplied to rural areas by such pioneering men as Arthur Abernathy Miller.

January 16, 2018 Alabama / Wild foraging

Well the son-of-a-gun pecked in, now let him peck out

Nationally recognized herbalist Tommie Bass was the subject of scholarly & popular books, and a front-page essay in the Wall Street Journal.

December 1, 2017 Alabama / Creek nation

The Creek Indians of Boiling Spring, AL

Creek Indians lived in cabins of crude structure scattered about in small groups within the vicinity of a mound upon which the chief lived.

November 9, 2017 Alabama / College sports

Strap that Alabama fan on my back!

Future champion college basketball coach Sonny Smith was born November 15, 1936 in Roan Mountain, TN, the son of a mill worker.

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