Lifestyles
Mobile is a city filled with many flavors
As you watch the Mobile TV stations, you sometimes catch a glimpse of Mobile as it was in the 1950s and 1960s. I kept up ...
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Lifestyles
Eateries bring back memories of hurricanes
Over the years as I worked hurricanes and flood losses across the country, I was amazed at the names of some of restaurants, cafes and ...
by Lowell McGill, Wednesday, July 20, 2016 12:00 am
Lifestyles
Atmore’s tie to the Gulf is in charter boats
This is the season fishing charter boats are capturing much of the headlines. Folks are coming to this area of the Gulf from several states ...
by Lowell McGill, Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:03 am
Lifestyles
Old time sayings were the best in past days
Two or three years ago, I wrote a column on “old time sayings” heard as a kid and are seldom heard these days. Well, I ...
by Lowell McGill, Wednesday, July 6, 2016 12:04 am
Lifestyles
Phone conversation led to memory lane
I had an interesting phone conversation Sunday with a man who worked with me in Charleston, S.C. during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. A South Carolina ...
by Lowell McGill, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 12:00 am
Lifestyles
Stars stopped here often; the Internet is big
Back in the 1940s and 1950s, Atmore was included on the route of several entertainers and dignitaries as they traveled across the country. I have ...
by Lowell McGill, Wednesday, June 22, 2016 12:00 am
Lifestyles
Auburn ladies captured the country’s heart
Those fabulous young ladies on the Auburn ladies softball team captured the heart of America. Even though they fell one game short of the national ...
by Lowell McGill, Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:00 am
Lifestyles
Hank Williams, tribal election see big turnout
This past weekend, fans of Hank Williams poured in to Georgiana, our neighboring town about an hour away up Interstate 65, to salute the renowned ...
by Lowell McGill, Wednesday, June 8, 2016 12:00 am
Lifestyles
Tribal council election to have big turn out
Creek Native Americans will venture in to Poarch on Saturday to cast their votes for tribal candidates. In addition to the election, a homecoming for ...
by Lowell McGill, Monday, June 6, 2016 11:01 am
Lifestyles
‘Platter Chatter’ radio show was popular here
We were reminded of a few names from the past in a couple of emails that came our way this week. Jonni Lynn (Hale) Oakes ...