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  • Chasing Ghosts: Albert Steward Stradford

    The only thing I knew previously about my paternal grandmother’s father was that she claimed he was the first certified public accountant in the state…

  • Bernard Whitehurst Jr sign Montgomery Alabama

    AUM School of Liberal Arts lecture, February 27

    On February 27 at 7:30 PM, Foster Dickson will give his lecture, “The Bernard Whitehurst Case in Post-Civil Rights Montgomery: More Questions than Answers.” Mr.…

  • Chasing Ghosts: James Davis Dickson, Sr.

    [This is the seventh post in the series, Chasing Ghosts.] Born in 1888 in Athens, Alabama to David Madison Dickson, Jr. and Blandeanah “Blandie” (Eubank)…

  • New Year’s Resolutions

    The appeal of new beginnings is archetypal. Beginning anew, starting fresh, turning over a new leaf, whatever cliché you want to use to embellish the…