Lacon Mountain Chronicles
Lacon Mountain Chronicles

Author: Ed Higdon

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781953406088

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Lacon Mountain is located in South Morgan County, Alabama, on the Old Highway 31. At one time Lacon was a thriving village formally known as Cedar Crossing, boasting a post office, brickyard, a sawmill, a gin, a rock crusher, a church, and a newspaper. Today all that remains of Lacon is the Lacon Trade Day. The Patterson family home sits across the highway from it, backed up by the Knight Farm, which still operates and remains in the family. You can find anything you want for a price, from the best hunting dogs in the world to goats. The proper slogan for Lacon Trade Day is, "If it ain't here, it don't exist." My favorite is the meat skins that are cooked on the spot and packaged in a paper sack still warm. Settle back and learn about life in Lacon and around the world as seen through the eyes of master storyteller Ed Higdon.

Amazing Alabama
Amazing Alabama

Author:

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2017-11

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781588383396

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A collection of facts about the state of Alabama.

History of Clarke County
History of Clarke County

Author: John Simpson Graham

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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A written history devoted almost exclusively to Clarke County Alabama and its people. Quoting from books published before this (1923) and recording his own personal accounts, the author, a resident of Clarke County since 1875, gives his personal observation of Clarke County places and events.In the introduction, the author states, " This book will doubtless be read with much interest by the present generation living in Clarke, as well as by the generations to follow. If it should be preserved and handed down through the coming years, it may, in the far distant future, fall under the eye of some descendent of some Clarke countian and enable him or her to look back through the avenue of time and get a mental picture of Clarke County in the nineteenth and twentieh centuries."

What Happened to Mary Faye Hunter?
What Happened to Mary Faye Hunter?

Author: Brad Golson Glenda Yarbrough

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-17

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781080117307

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The year is 1967. Decatur, Alabama is an industrial town nestled against the Tennessee River. When 34-year-old Mary Faye Hunter is found dead a few months after she goes missing, it sends shockwaves through the small community. Retired state investigator Bob Hancock spent most of his career trying to solve Mary Faye's murder. Five decades later, the case is still officially unsolved, but all the secrets have been unearthed. This case is regarded by many in law enforcement as one of the most perplexing in the state's history. To understand what happened to Mary Faye Hunter, you have to know her. For the first time, the events that preceded Mary Faye's death are detailed as you travel back in time to examine her life, ambitions, and dreams.

13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey

Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham

Publisher: University Alabama Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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The first of six Jeffrey ghost story books centers on Jeffrey's favorite 13 ghostly tales set in Alabama.

Through a Woman's Eye
Through a Woman's Eye

Author: Marian Perdue Furman

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2015-05-08

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 158838263X

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Through a Woman's Eye presents an evocative collection of a hundred black and white photographs made by Edith Morgan of Camden, a small town in Wilcox County, Alabama, just after the turn of the twentieth century. Morgan was educated locally before attending the School of the Chicago Art Institute. Subsequently she returned to Camden where she spent the remainder of her life teaching art. She also taught illiterate blacks and whites to read. Thirty years ago, Marian Furman, also of Camden and herself a professional photographer, discovered an album made by Morgan of photographs of her friends, students, and local African Americans. The latter, although somewhat stereotypical of photographs of blacks at the time, are sympathetic; they reveal the humanity of Morgan's subjects. This volume collects Morgan's photographs, along with essays that put them in the context of time and place. Professor Hardy Jackson's essay presents a personal memory. Furman describes socioeconomic and political conditions in Wilcox County and offers biographical information on the Morgan family. Dr. Matthew Mason of Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library presents additional biographical information and offers a critical assessment of Morgan's photographs, comparing her work to that of contemporary photographers, especially her female peers.