By Carrie Crawford, Ph.D.Director, Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area Joe Wheeler State Park sits on the north and south side of the Tennessee River, putting it in two MSNHA counties:
By Jeffrey Bibbee, Ph.D. I like to think of myself as an experienced world traveler. My passport lives in a drawer near the front door and I keep a leather
By Lee FreemanFlorence-Lauderdale Public Library,Local History-Genealogy Department It’s easy nowadays to think of Florence as an international community, especially with the many international students who attend the University of North
By Carrie Barske Crawford, Ph.D.Director, Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area I grew up in what was once a thriving textile mill town in Connecticut, though by the time I lived
Today, Belle Mont Mansion is often a beautiful setting for weddings and bridal portraiture, but what would a wedding be like in the late 1800s? To discover, we turn to
By Julia McGeeFormer MSNHA graduate assistant In the summer of 2019, I interned at the Lawrence County Archives, in Moulton–and learned much more than I was prepared for. To complete
From Project Say Something The mission of Project Say Something is to confront racial injustice through black history by using communication, education and community empowerment to reconcile the past with
By Vicki GoldstonFounder, “Golden Spices Magazine” Forty-plus years ago, we discovered a medical philosophy that invited us to connect, rather than dissect, our techniques for healing. That approach is holistic
By Lee Freeman, Florence-Lauderdale Public Library,Local History-Genealogy Department NOTE: This article quotes language from contemporary newspapers, documents, reports and letters that was commonly used at the time but today we
By Joshua Grigsby MSNHA graduate assistant Talking to a co-worker today made me think about how much culture changes over relatively small distances. We began speaking about accents and how
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