An alert seventeen-year-old in Montreal sensed something was wrong. He saw the woman resisting the man but he couldn't be sure. So he pretended to befriend the … [Read more...]
The Last of Mountain Tom
Lee Freeman paints Tom as an urban legend in a scholarly paper. Here are the first paragraphs: Tales from Beyond the Grave: The Life and Legend of Thomas … [Read more...]
More About Mountain Tom’s Lynching
Mountain Tom Clark, the outlaw who was lynched and then buried under a highway in Florence, Alabama, first surfaced in Lauderdale County, Alabama, … [Read more...]
Funeral Fresh Flowers
“Funeral Fresh Flowers” read the sign on the plate glass window of a florist shop, and I did a doubletake. Funeral fresh? What on earth does “funeral fresh” … [Read more...]
Mountain Tom Clark and 150 Year Revenge
It’s doubtful Mountain Tom Clark had a funeral. Hard to imagine a lynching ending in a ceremony, so call this a “laying to rest story.” Mountain Tom, … [Read more...]
Pistol-Toting Granny Thwarts Car-Jackers
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping … [Read more...]
An Elephant, Stag and Rambling about Research
By Jennie Helderman In 1810 a man in Huntsville, Alabama, sold tickets to see an elephant. I have a copy of the flyer advertising the event. Now I happen … [Read more...]
The Wild Child?
Thanks to my friend Carol Armstrong for passing along this story about her dad. Carol took her 92-year-old father to the mall to buy new shoes. Afterward … [Read more...]
The Mother of All Stubborn Streaks
This story isn’t a funeral story, not exactly, but stubborn to the death is close enough. A stubborn streak runs through my husband’s family. If he or … [Read more...]
I Knew Her As Mother
The picture is of Kathleen Russell of Walnut Grove, Alabama, from the 1931 Glomerata of Auburn University. You might have known her as Kathleen Miller, married … [Read more...]