May 16, 2023 | Podcast, Season 4
SEASON 4 | EPISODE 10 Mardi Gras was started in Mobile, Alabama. Don’t let anyone from New Orleans tell you otherwise. After the civil war, one man is credited with getting it started again by dressing like a Chickasaw Chieftan and marching through the streets of...
May 9, 2023 | Podcast, Season 4
SEASON 4 | EPISODE 9 Terror has been used as a way to keep people in line for centuries. In Birmingham, with easy access to mining supplies, the klan used dynamite as their tool of terror. But they didn’t count on the resiliency of the citizens in the North...
May 2, 2023 | Podcast, Season 4
SEASON 4 | EPISODE 8 When conservators removed plaster to make sure the grand staircase in the state capital in Alabama were still safe, they were shocked to find out that they were built by a bridge builder. His name was Horace King. Born a slave, he became one of...
Apr 25, 2023 | Podcast, Season 4
SEASON 4 | EPISODE 7 John Lennon was giving a tour of his home to a reporter when he commented on the popularity of his band the Beatles. “We’re more popular than Jesus now.” This one innocuous line made it’s way across the ocean to the studios in a radio station in...
Apr 18, 2023 | Podcast, Season 4
SEASON 4 | EPISODE 18 Lonnie Johnson tinkered so much that the neighborhood kids called him “The Professor.” He won first place in a state wide science fair in high school and embarked on a career in the military. He later worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Apr 11, 2023 | Podcast, Season 4
SEASON 4 | EPISODE 5 A Japanese war bride who went by the name of Katie Parsons moved to Birmingham and fell in love with it. When she discovered she had an inoperable brain tumor, her dying wish was to have a garden created in her memory in Birmingham. Hear the...
