In 1963, not long after the official opening of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, a new feature was added: A working clock made of flowers. It was modeled on a clock in Canada and was the first of its ...

Was it a walrus? A ‘sea cow’? Cthulhu come to devour downtown Birmingham? The child peering up at the 40-foot tall tusked, purple balloon looks as confused as most everyone must have been that ...

In some press reports, it's the 1960s all over again in Alabama. Fifty years after George Wallace stood in the way of civil rights, a new Wallace, in the person of State Supreme Court Chief Justice ...

After Pulitzer Prize-winner John Archibald read sermons from his father's time as a Methodist preacher, he went on a quest to find out why his... Author Explores Preacher Father's Silence On Racial ...