The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at The University of Alabama will present authors Janet Kauffman and Emily Martin on Thursday, Jan. 25 at 7:30 p.m., in 205 Smith Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Fishing was a favorite pastime for Scott Renner of Montgomery, until the activity became nearly impossible for him after he was paralyzed from the neck down eight years ago in a diving accident. But now a new fishing rod, designed by a group of University Alabama engineering students, will help return his independence.
In Alabama, there is virtually no reason for a child to be without health insurance. Currently there are three insurance programs coordinated through the Alabama Department of Public Heath that provide coverage for children under the age of 19: ALL Kids, SOBRA Medicaid and the Child Caring Foundation.
At the turn of the century, places like Merrimas Mills in Huntsville and the Alabama Canning Company in Bayou La Batre seemed to be plucked straight from the pages of a Dickens novel. Young children — some barely what we would call school-aged today — with soiled faces and ill-fitting clothes could be seen working alongside adults, working machinery or shucking oysters for 10, 12, and even 14 hours a day, their movements and gazes too mature for their years.
A recent study of the research productivity of finance doctoral students, as measured by their publication records, places The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration third among 78 leading business schools.
At a time when the issue of education is a political football and buzzwords such as “vouchers” and “testing” and “accountability” are floated with impunity, it is interesting to consider that these very concerns were being debated –perhaps with even more fervor — in the early part of the century as well.
The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at The University of Alabama will present Memphis-based artist Sara Good’s exhibit “Empathy Zones,” Jan. 5 through Feb. 4.
In 1962, the Mobile Historic Development Commission was established — thereby becoming Alabama’s first municipally related preservation agency. Nearly 40 years later, the story of historic preservation in the state is compiled of both smashing successes and sad defeats.
“The mantelpieces of affluent antebellum Alabama houses,” writes Edward Pattillo in the fall 2000 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine, “were decorated in the rococo taste that reflected the Cotton Kingdom’s love of the opulent.” That love grew in sentimentality after the Civil War. As Pattillo explains, people of the post-war South displayed Paris porcelain in order to portend a palingenesis and to declare a preference for the past.
The first Alabama Real Estate Conference will offer a lineup of topics sure to pique the interest of anyone in the real estate business.