The drought continues to grow. State Parks Amendment 2 sparks debate. Anniston and Birmingham inch closer to designating National Parks with a visit from Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell.
And of course, Halloween is fast approaching, so the weekend is filled with wonderfully “scary” events and fundraisers.
A very busy week.
Continue reading “Alabama weekly nature roundup – October 22-28, 2016”
Below – excerpts from the speech today by Hank Thomas, Freedom Rider and survivor of the Anniston Bus Burning.
The speech was given after a tour of the proposed Freedom Riders Park. The tour was part of a visit by Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell who later held a public hearing in downtown Anniston to consider a proposal to designate sites around Anniston as a National Park.
speakers in Bham Now’s Bold Speaker Series, sponsored by EBSCO. Last Tuesday, he got the series kick-started as he talked about his company Kinetic Communications. Continue reading “The Bold Speaker Series Kicked Off with Jay Brandrup”
A reminder about two very important public hearings. Let’s make history tomorrow. Checkout our Bham Now story for details:
A good friend of mine once described the Magic City Classic as the world’s largest “family reunion.”
For this year’s 75th Anniversary that means an anticipated crowd of 100,000 people attending pre and post game events and of course the big game between Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University.
Here comes the sun Birmingham!
Yesterday, our friends at Eagle Solar and Light sent us the schedule for Birmingham’s very first Solar Home Tour.
Interest in solar powered homes and businesses is “growing” exponentially in the Magic City. Here are the details and most importantly the hour by hour day long schedule from their press release: Continue reading “Saturday is “Solar Day” in Birmingham”
Support YOUR Coast and YOUR Nature Preserve!
The Alabama Coastal Foundation Connect to Your Coast Tour (they have been in Gadsden and Tuscaloosa this past month) is teaming up with the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve and Nature Center this Thursday, October 27th for some good BBQ and an opportunity to learn about the Alabama Coastal Foundation’s efforts to protect and preserve Alabama’s coast.
“I love margins and edges and always look to cross borders and boundaries.” says Dr. Dana Walrath, who will be speaking on creative writing at UAB on Oct. 28th.
Walrath appears to have quite a unusual mix of talents. Anthropology. Writing. Art. Most recently she published a memoir, “Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass,” — chronically the 3 years she spent with her mother, Alice, before and during dementia.
Continue reading “UAB Writer Series to feature Dana Walrath, Oct. 28”
This week in Alabama, two prominent places in U.S. history will be a step closer to becoming National Parks.
On Thursday, October 27th, U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell will be conducting two public hearings to consider designating both Freedom Riders Park in Anniston and the Birmingham Civil Rights District as National Parks.
Our top story today and for the coming week is the announcement that Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will be visiting Anniston and Birmingham to hold public hearings on whether to recommend to President Obama several civil rights sites for National Monument designations.
In Birmingham, the proposed park would include landmark sites such as the 16th Street Baptist Church, where in September 1963, four little girls were murdered by a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan. Also included in the proposal, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, which houses archives and exhibits documenting the events of the city’s past, and various other historic sites within the civil rights district.
In Anniston, the proposed National Monument designation will focus on sites where the Greyhound bus carrying the Freedom Riders in 1961 were ambushed in downtown Anniston, and outside town where there was an attack on the Freedom Riders and the bus burning that shook a nation took place.
Continue reading “Alabama weekly nature roundup – October 15-21, 2016”
Today and next Thursday folks in Tuscaloosa and Auburn will have something in common. They will both be joining the Alabama Coastal Foundation to – Connect to Your Coast .
Continue reading “Roll Tide! War Eagle! Connect to Your Coast”
The 9th Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival benefiting the Alabama Rivers Alliance and Alabama Environmental Council is this Sunday, October 23rd, 2-6 at the Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham
Butterflies.
They are beautiful and wonderful, but they desperately need special plants – let’s call them “butterfly plants” to survive.
Here is a good article on why these plants are so important.
You can make a difference this weekend by attending and purchasing special butterfly plants at the annual Birmingham Botanical Garden’s Fall Sale October 22-23.
Here is the “butterfly plant” shopping list from the BBG:
This Thursday in Tuscaloosa – Connect to YOUR Coast with the Alabama Coastal Foundation (ACF) and the Black Warrior Brewing Company.
Stop by Black Warrior Brewing Company in downtown Tuscaloosa on October 20th between 4:00pm to 10:00pm for some great beer and learn how you can help improve and protect Alabama’s coastal environment through cooperation, education, and participation.
Twenty percent of all beer sold that night will be donated to the Alabama Coastal Foundation.
