Decatur Morgan County is home to a wide variety of sporting events and their summer schedule is studded with championships, and tournaments.

This morning I am writing from a picnic table, sheltered by towering Ponderosa pines, from one of my favorite towns, Flagstaff, Ariz. You might want to know that it is 46 degrees and the last day of June. That is why I love this place. It is about 7,000 feet above sea level. The day […]

Just like that, Huntsville is one of seven additional dates World Wrestling Entertainment is adding to its 2023 touring schedule.

Bottle feed calves, enjoy fifteen ice cream flavors and learn about how milk is produced at Blue Ribbon Dairy in Elmore County.

It’s been a season of hard-charging faith documentaries, including “The Secrets of Hillsong” and “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.” Both saddened me. I never watched any of the Duggar series on TLC, though I was aware of the basic plot through word-of-mouth. The “Shiny” documentary intertwines with the ministry of Bill Gothard, the Duggars’ […]

Chef Brody Olive is the 2023 champion of the 8th Annual Alabama Seafood Cook-Off that showcases the bounty from the Gulf of Mexico.

While it is difficult to narrow down industry experts, we have created a list of five commercial and residential Alabama architecture firms that you need to know.

The summer of 1963 was pivotal in the development of my psyche. That summer my grandfather, Henry, purchased a new Ford station wagon. It was white with red interior. His sister and her family lived in San Diego and for reasons that still evade me, they thought it would be a good idea to load […]

The successful integration of The University of Alabama opened doors for decades of progress toward becoming an inclusive campus.

Fifty years is a mighty long time in the restaurant business. But 50 years in a single building is an extraordinary achievement.

The recent Netflix series on the 30th anniversary of the Waco, Texas, tragedy spurred my interest, and I found some new books at our local library chronicling this event. I remembered some of the details from 1993 but these recent volumes supplied greater detail. Both President Clinton and Attorney General Reno admitted in their autobiographies […]

Mid-June normally is high time for blueberries in the Yellowhammer State, peaking with the annual Alabama Blueberry Festival in Brewton.

If beer is on tap for this Father’s Day, microbrewery taprooms are a great choice – fun emporiums serving a wide range of brews.

The building is about 15 feet wide and maybe twice as long. Mirrors line the side walls almost from front to back, with a dozen chairs on the right side and four on the left. The front wall is a full window beside an aging door made of a wooden frame and a single large […]

There is an open secret among tattoo artists, dermatologists and the small group of researchers: Red ink causes the most problems.

The annual Guntersville Lake HydroFest offers two days of competitive racing as well as on-land activities for all adventure lovers.

The roots of Appalachia run deep in the life of Nick Saban. He praises the region’s service-oriented spirit as one that uplifts the richness of its culture.

Baptist historian Leon McBeth called it “the woman question,” and Southern Baptists yet struggle with it. Sixty percent of our members are women. Normally we don’t hesitate asking them to serve in most church positions because we know they bring dispatch, order and grace to the job. But the two places we approach with fear […]

Bobby Madison Jr. uses his skills and past success to give back to the community through his annual basketball camp in Alabama.

Big Spoon Creamery is beloved in Birmingham and Homewood. Now the husband-wife team of Geri-Martha and Ryan O’Hara bring their creative, hand-made ice creams to Huntsville.

Vacation Bible School will kick off in churches across the nation this week. This annual event has become so engrained in the psyche of many churchgoers that it needs only to be referred to by the initials, VBS. VBS is special to me for many reasons. One of them is my shoe shine kit. There […]

I met them at the baseball field in Vestavia, Ala., where their son is our grandson’s teammate. Something was said about her difficulty learning English, so I asked where she was from. “Moldova,” she said. “I’m Russian.” I told them I’d had a student at Judson College from Moldova named Anna, and then I struggled […]

Watermelon was a natural choice when Taco Mama founder Will Haver started looking to add a summer seasonal margarita.

Traditions run deep at The Bright Star in Bessemer, Alabama’s oldest family-run restaurant. Plans are coming together for one of its most popular rituals.