The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – I must admit that I was not watching when No. 1 Alabama beat No. 22 Auburn on Saturday in the not the Iron Bowl game anymore. But it was impossible not to find out about it on Facebook, where some of my friends still make a big…
By Glynn Wilson – Beginning around the time of the first Thanksgiving harvest feast in North America in the 1620s, European settlers almost wiped out native wild turkeys on the continent by the early-20th century. Conservation efforts since the 1970s, however, have been successful, and the population has made a comeback to an estimated 7…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – The contrast could not be greater from where we spent this Thanksgiving and the past five on that noisy Texas Street in Mobile, Alabama, where you can’t see the sky for the city lights and the blinking RSA tower and where it rains…
By James Rhodes – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Before President Trump departed to Mar-a-Largo for Thanksgiving recess, he took time to criticize Doug Jones as being “terrible” regarding national issues of defense, immigration, taxes and somehow his election would prevent “making America great again.” When specifically asked which was worse: Alabama voters electing an alleged child…
Drum and song from the Yakama Nation’s arrival at Standing Rock By Neil Young – Tales of a feast on Plymouth plantation in the Autumn of 1621, where of pilgrims from the Mayflower, celebrated the harvest, shared and broke bread with the first Americans are false. They are still used as inspiration and shared with…
