May 18, 2021 | Podcast, Season 1
SEASON 1 | EPISODE 4 In 1974 Homewood High School and its football team were only three years old. The coach was only 26 years old. To think that a team this new, this young, could break into the Alabama State 4A football playoffs was unthinkable. But that was right...
May 11, 2021 | Podcast, Season 1
SEASON 1 | EPISODE 3 Alabama is lucky to have its share of astronauts who were born in Alabama or while working with NASA, lived here for a time, specifically in Huntsville. There is a chance you could run into an astronaut in Alabama. It’s a slim chance but...
May 4, 2021 | Podcast, Season 1
SEASON 1 | EPISODE 2 Thirty short years after the first basketball game was played in Springville, Massachusetts, Greenville High School’s basketball season was just getting started. Sports fans in Greenville knew this team was special and that they would go far. The...
Apr 20, 2021 | Podcast, Season 1
SEASON 1 | EPISODE 1 Leo Wright was a creative director at the advertising agency Luckie (also know as The Robert Luckie Company, Luckie & Forney, Tucker Wayne/Luckie, Luckie & Company and maybe others) in Birmingham, AL, where he spent his entire career. He...
Apr 19, 2021 | Podcast, Season 1
SEASON 1 | TEASER EPISODE Hi, my name is Shawn Wright, the host, and creator of Alabama Short Stories. The podcast that was created to celebrate those stories about Alabama that you don’t hear about often, if ever. They are the stories that were not shared in your...
