David Rainer’s Dream Job: Covering Alabama’s Outdoors for 32 Years
There is an old joke about what professional golfers do on vacation. David Rainer lives a version of it: he is paid to hunt and fish. For more than three…
Coastal Creations: David Pierce Turns Beach Driftwood Into Art
David Pierce’s mother was an art teacher, and his great-grandmother used to sit in the Louvre painting copies of the Masters. David himself took the long way around the easel…
The Whistling Fishmonger of Daphne Sells Fresh and Tells It Free
If you are driving behind Popeye’s in Daphne on a Wednesday around midday and hear a whistle, follow the sound: it may lead you to one of the Eastern Shore’s…
Always a Bulldog: Remembering Daphne Golfer David Miller
The story of Joseph McDavid Miller is told in trophies, records and the people who still gather every February in his memory. Known to everyone as David, the Daphne-raised golfer…
Salt of the Earth and Water: Gulf Breeze’s Dan Green Has Lived It All
Gulf Breeze’s westernmost neighborhoods sit on a strip of land with water on both sides — Pensacola Bay on the south, Santa Rosa Sound on the north — and growing…
From Instagram to 247 Stores: How Mobile’s Elizabeth Damrich Designed Her Way Into Dillard’s
When Dillard’s vice president of merchandising Alexandra Dillard Lucie went looking for a collaborator to design a capsule collection for the retailer’s largest ladies’ apparel brand, she didn’t go through…
Elvis Has Left the Building — and Moved to Fairhope: The Many Lives of Jason Braly
Elvis has left the building — and turned up on the Alabama Gulf Coast, where you can book him for a surprise ride-along. His name is Jason Braly, he lives…
Eight Minutes With Ringo: A Fairhope Writer’s Phone Call With the Coolest Beatle, Revisited on His 85th Birthday
I’ve never met any of the Beatles. But I did once talk to Ringo Starr on the phone — for about eight minutes — and it remains one of the…
Christmas in Candyland: Andalusia’s Small-Town Holiday Spectacle
For a dose of holiday spirit that no big city can match, the road leads to Andalusia — the Covington County seat that transforms its downtown into a walk-in Christmas…
Chip Herrington Keeps the Big Band Era Alive on the Mobile Causeway
Chip Herrington arrived at a recent interview at the Bluegill restaurant the way he arrives at most places — on his motorcycle, in a coat and tie, straight from an…