Gulf Shores Sandcastle Ritual Inspires Memoir by Charles Chumley
Longtime Gulf Shores visitor Charles Chumley turned his daily sandcastle-building ritual into a 44-chapter memoir, with all author royalties donated to Family Promise.
A New Memoir Revisits the Leverett Case and the Long Shadow of Abuse
Phyllis Hain's memoir, Diamond in the Dark, returns to one of Mobile's most sensational cases of the early 1980s and traces how a childhood of violence shaped the choices of…
Mobile Adoptee Finds Birth Family, Later Donates Kidney to Aunt
A Mobile woman who tracked down her birth mother years after learning she was adopted went on to donate a kidney to her aunt, forging lasting bonds with the family…
Mon Louis Island and a Servant’s Reward: The French Roots of a Mobile Family
The second installment of a Mobile family memoir traces a French line back to Bienville's settlers, to land between Bayou La Batre and Coden, and to how Mon Louis Island…
The Boy Who Rowed Out to Farragut’s Fleet: A Mobile Family’s Memoir Begins
A memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, a Mobile-born nun, opens with an Irish immigrant on the docks, a wounded Confederate prisoner, and a boy summoned home by Admiral Farragut himself.
A Mother’s Notes to a Son: An Election, a Wedding, and a Mobile Household in 2004
A collection of e-mails from a Mobile mother to her grown son captures the 2004 election season as it was lived in one Alabama household: gloom, gallows humor, wedding logistics…
Lessons From a Hospital Bed: How a Mobile Stockbroker Learned to Stop Chasing the Last Dollar
The concluding installment of a Mobile memoir: a foul-mouthed doctor diagnoses a pulmonary embolism, a broker survives, and a man decides that a million-dollar year is not what he will…
Six Broadcasts a Day: A Mobile Broker’s Life on the Radio and in the 1974 Bear Market
A longtime Mobile stockbroker recalls the years he read market reports over WLPR, the punishing bear market of 1974, and the new options game that helped keep his family afloat.
The Bottom Came in December: A Mobile Broker on the 1974 Crash, Recovery, and a Diagnosis He Did Not Expect
In the gloom of late 1974 a Mobile stockbroker drew up two models of the future and labeled them Doom and Boom. The market gave him his answer on December…
Passed Over at 48: A Mobile Broker’s Account of Losing the Manager’s Job He Had Earned
In the next installment of his recollections, a Mobile stockbroker described reaching the top of his profession in 1968, then being displaced as office manager the following year by a…