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 ...

Doing any job for nearly half a century is hard to imagine when you first get started. My 45-year career in journalism stretched from the post-Watergate apex of print newspapers in America to their ...

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 ...