Mockingbird’s Courtroom Hosts Kim Cross, Tom Franklin at Monroeville Literary Festival
The 2024 Monroeville Literary Festival honored Kim Cross, Tom Franklin and Col. Tom Kelly in the historic courtroom that inspired To Kill a Mockingbird.
Monroeville and Frisco City See Downtown Revivals in Monroe County
Monroe County’s two downtowns are quietly coming back. In Monroeville — famous worldwide as the setting of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” — new businesses are popping up along…
Monroeville Buzzes With Excitement Over Harper Lee’s Long-Awaited Second Novel
News that Harper Lee would publish a second novel sent her hometown of Monroeville into a flurry of excitement among shopkeepers and civic leaders.
Crescent Theater Pairs a Local Cult Comedy With Hobo With A Shotgun and a Harper Lee Documentary
Downtown Mobile’s Crescent Theater stacked its late-June 2011 calendar with an unusually local-minded mix: a one-day-only screening of a homegrown supernatural comedy, a full week of the grindhouse revenge film…
Harper Lee Documentary “Hey, Boo” Heads to Mobile’s Crescent Theater With Director Q&A
The Crescent Theater in downtown Mobile will devote a full week to one of the most talked-about literary documentaries in recent memory, screening Hey, Boo from June 10 through June…