Switches for Christmas? Essay from Cahawba sheds light on 19th C. Black Belt holiday
Thirteen-year-old Kittie Watson, a student attending the Female Academy at Cahawba, wrote this essay on Christmas in 1864, near the end of the Civil War.... Read More
Dorothy Jean Caples Minor
Dorothy Jean Caples Minor, age 90, of Clinton, Alabama, passed away peacefully in her sleep on December 1, 2025, at Moundville Health and Rehabilitation. Born... Read More