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Peggy Lewis: The Open Gate on Old Bread Bowl; Signed by Artist

The Quilts of Gee's BendSince the early nineteenth century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In the only photo-essay book about the quilts of Gee’s Bend for children, award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin explores the history and culture of this fascinating group of women and their unique quilting traditions. Rubin uses meticulous research to offer an exclusive look at an important facet of African American art and culture. In the rural...

Duncan Black, Monroe County artist, says that "The Right Reverend Linden Vredenburgh left the Methodist Church to sing bass in the Cackling Church Choir. He roosts next to Miss Mineola Megargel." The Right Reverend Linden Vredenburgh is brightly colored, stands about 9.5 inches tall from the base to top of his comb and is approximately 4.5 inches wide from wing tip to wing tip. He is one of the talented members of the "Cackling Church Choir" sculptures by Duncan Black.

In Ted Dunagan's The Salvation of Miss Lucretia, young friends Ted and Poudlum continue their friendship despite the racial divide in the rural segregated South of the 1940s. On a trip to the forest where they plan to train their dogs, they stumble upon Miss Lucretia, the last of the voodoo queens.The boys fear, but later befriend Miss Lucretia, who teaches them secrets such as how to walk on fire. She also reveals that she was the granddaughter of the last slave born in Africa and brought to...

Jacy Gunz, a Wilcox County artist, created "The Sea Hag- 22x20." Using foil and a light blue paint, she created a background of the ocean. Using various colors like dark blue, white, black, greens, yellows, and gold, Jacy Gunz created a beautiful underwater scene of a skeleton mermaid "hag" with a skeleton fish, along with bubbles in the water and a scene of the bottom of the ocean floor with its algae and plants. Across the middle, there is a horizontal band of a orange-ish shading. This...

Set in South Alabama The Second Head of Chocalata is a series of short stories written about a man and a boy. The author wrote a few of these short stories as the boy recalled tales the man had told him about the hunting and fishing adventures of his youth around the Mobile area. Then the author tells the boy's life as he grew up hunting, fishing, water skiing, and frog gigging in and about the rivers and marshes of the Mobile River Delta and Mobile Bay. Some of the stories are serious, some...

The Slave Who Went To Congress celebrates the life of a man who rejected bitterness even as he pursued his own dreams and worked to make possible the dreams of others, regardless of their race or background. His is a story of determination and strength, the story of a true American hero. The first African American from Alabama to be elected in the US Congress | Author: Marti Rosner & Frye Gaillard | Illustrated: Jordana Haggard | Audience: Grades 4-6 ...

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860—more than half a century...

Amanda Walker is a longtime columnist with AL.com, the Wilcox Progressive Era in Camden, Alabama, several regional papers. Her writing explores the elusive ups and downs of everyday life. She weaves and dances along the heartstrings thread through us all. She can be quite opinionated and delightfully humorous.Her book "The Tears and Laughter of a Southern Voice Calling" is a collection of short stories, writing, and collumns based off of experiences from life growing up in the south. ...

The Tombigbee River flows through the history of Alabama and Mississippi, connecting the Black Prairie cotton belt of northeast Mississippi and west Alabama to Mobile and the Gulf of Mexico. In the early 1800s, it became the regional artery of commerce and trade, with steamboats carrying cotton to the port of Mobile and then returning upriver with farm supplies and consumer goods. Today, the "rollodores," who rolled cotton bales down slides to the decks of boats; the sunken logs, or "dead...

The Vision, is an evocative painting by Casey Roberts that presents a surreal and symbolic scene against a vibrant, deep blue background. This 12"x16" composition on canvas features several distinct figures and elements that invite interpretation.

One shot fired deep in the pine forests of her youth was all it took to change Hattie's life forever. At the age of fourteen, Hattie learns that her mother, Addie, is dead, and her father, Hubbard, stands accused of Addie's murder, along with countless other shocking betrayals. Overnight, Hattie becomes mother to her three siblings while still very much a child herself. The life she had dreamt of now seems impossible to achieve. How will Hattie break away from the father who prevents her from...