Mobile and Baldwin County News
Behind mossy brick walls a few blocks from downtown Mobile lies Church Street Graveyard, where yellow fever epidemics of the 1800s filled the ground faster than headstones could be carved.
Each April, Jazz Appreciation Month gives South Alabama a reason to look back at the musicians the region produced who went on to shape jazz far beyond the Port City.…
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, a nationwide observance created to highlight the history and living legacy of jazz. In Mobile, that history includes a musician whose name is far better…
Long before Memorial Day became the national starting gun for white shoes, Mobile mayors proclaimed Straw Hat Day just before Easter. The city archives still hold the proclamations.
Tucked among the oaks of Spring Hill stands one of Mobile’s most architecturally unusual historic homes: Carolina Hall, a three-level mansion whose design traces back nearly 2,000 years to ancient…
MOBILE, Ala. — One of downtown Mobile’s most beloved pieces of public art is heading back to its longtime home. The Little Colt, a bronze statue gifted to Mobile by…
Friends of Arlington Park, led by Allen and Lucy Perkins, is rallying support for a restored waterfront park at Garrows Bend on Mobile Bay, a site with nearly three centuries…
A new local history book, Mobile Bay: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, has arrived at Bienville Books and other outlets, offering readers a wide-ranging look at the estuary that shapes life…
A carefully sourced look at Saint-Domingue, the Haitian Revolution, French refugee ties to Alabama and what the record does—and does not—show about Mobile.
Dr. Paul Ruffin, the U.S. Army's first Black senior research scientist, will address the 21st annual Martin Luther King Memorial Breakfast at Bishop State Community College in Mobile.