On our trip to the South this past January, we spent a day in Mobile, the third largest city in Alabama. Mobile fit right in to my overarch...

Mobile, Alabama, was designated the first capital of French Louisiana in 1702, and the first Catholic parish on the Gulf Coast was establ...

We found that driving around in the countryside near Monroeville was a bit of a Brigadoon or Shangri-La experience. We could have sworn we ...

According the The Encyclopedia of Alabama , in 2010 the population of Monroeville, Alabama, was 6,519, with about 56% identifying themselve...

The 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning book To Kill a Mockingbird  has been on my Top Ten Books list ever since I read it in my high school Englis...

When I was in college, I had a special interest in the literature of the first half of the 20th century, and so visiting the home of F. Sco...

A trio of very important civil rights-related buildings are within blocks of each other in downtown Montgomery.  The first is the parsonage...

Every now and then I have to throw in a word about our meals, especially if we go somewhere that's a little unique. Such a place...

Just a few blocks from the Alabama State Capitol building is the First White House of the Confederacy. This house only served this purpose ...

Alabama was a key state in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Many events that are now written into our history books occurr...

Montgomery is the capital of Alabama, and with a population of just over 200,000 it is the state's second-largest city, just behind Bir...

Bob and I had plans to climb to the highest point in Alabama, and we knew we needed to fuel up before leaving Atlanta, so we stopped for l...