Dec 21, 2021 | Podcast, Season 2
SEASON 2 | EPISODE 3 John Pratt lived in the sleepy town of Centre, Alabama where he was a writer, lawyer, and teacher. He eventually owned and edited the local paper. Pratt wrote a lot in his many careers. So much so that in an effort to cut down on the writer’s...
Dec 14, 2021 | Podcast, Season 2
SEASON 2 | EPISODE 2 When you think of ice hockey, you don’t think of Birmingham, Alabama. At least you didn’t in the mid-1970s when the Birmingham Bulls of the WHA came to town. For the next few seasons, some of the greatest hockey players of all time would come to...
Dec 7, 2021 | Podcast, Season 2
SEASON 2 | EPISODE 1 What do Erskine Hawkins, Sun Ra and Cleve Eaton all have in common? They were all students of Fess Whatley, famed Birmingham band leader at A.H. Parker High School. Whatley would end up training musicians that would populate some of the largest...
Nov 29, 2021 | Podcast, Season 2
SEASON 2 | EPISODE 0 We have another season of great Alabama short stories that you may not have learned about in your Alabama Civics class or read in books. We have stories about the inventor of the typewriter and the Janney coupler used on trains. Both men were...
Jun 29, 2021 | Podcast, Season 1
SEASON 1 | EPISODE 10 Some of the people we will talk about on Alabama Shorts Stories are inventors. You may be surprised at all the items that were created right here in Alabama. The windshield wiper for instance. This simple idea was a game-changer and today we...
Jun 22, 2021 | Podcast, Season 1
SEASON 1 | EPISODE 9 Birmingham has its share of statues around town. There are statues of people in Kelly Ingram Park, Linn Park, the UAB campus, Samford’s Campus, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Five Points South, Rickwood Field, and the Alabama Sports Hall of...
