OWA On my second visit to The Park at OWA, I was pleased to see that the OWA has added more shops and restaurants. The Park, with its signature Rolling Thunder roller coaster, is as exciting as ever. And The...
Category: Alabama
Alabama
Ivy Green-Birthplace of Helen Keller
http://journeysjauntsandjunkets.com/ivy-green-the-birthplace-of-helen-keller-in-tuscumbia-alabama/
Alabama
Lions, Tigers and Bears, OH MY! “The Wild” and the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing
“THE WILD” Chinese Lantern Festival at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens Entrance to the Huntsville Botanical Gardens The Botanical Gardens are a “must see” attraction in Huntsville. The brainchild of fourteen dedicated Huntsvillians in 1979, the tenacious group eclipsed the seemingly...
Alabama
The Magic of Marble Festival in Sylacauga, Alabama’s Marble City
Magic of Marble Festival Each April for the last eleven years, sculptors from around the world gather in Alabama’s Marble City, Sylacauga, for the Magic of Marble Festival. The twelve-day festival situated in the heart of downtown Sylacauga at Blue...
Alabama
TIPTOEING THROUGH THE TULIPS AND A PATRIOTIC WALK THROUGH THE AMERICAN VILLAGE IN MONTEVALLO, ALABAMA
TULIPS GALORE Since 2017, the American Village in Montevallo has planted tulips in December for the community to enjoy in the Spring. This year over 100 thousand bulbs were planted. This herald of spring has become an attraction that draws...
Alabama
Dora Franklin Finley African American Heritage Trail Mobile, Alabama
Eric Finley, host of the DFFAAHT The Finley African American Heritage Trail in Mobile takes an in-depth look at the history and contributions of African Americans from the founding of Mobile to the present. While the trail became the vision...
Alabama
Making the Good Times Roll, Mobile Mask, Mobile, Alabama
The Mardi Gras season is just around the corner and soon our streets will be filled with revelers celebrating Carnival I had the pleasure of speaking with Steve Joynt, the editor of the Mobile Mask, the foremost magazine for Mobile’s...
Alabama
Rene Culler, Glass Artist, Mobile, Alabama
Rene Culler Professional glass artist Rene Culler relocated to Mobile from Cleveland, Ohio in 2010 to lead the glass program at the University of South Alabama. Rene received her Master’s in Fine Arts from Kent State, is a Fulbright Senior...
Alabama
Max Morey, Man behind the Crescent Theater, Mobile, Alabama
Crescent Theater in Downtown Mobile On November 1, 2018, the Crescent celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a party for the Crescent supporters with a showing of Bottle Shock. This was the first movie that debuted for the reopening of...
Alabama
The Culinary Academy Pastry Class, The Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama
Grand Hotel Kimberly Lyons, the pastry chef at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama is a talented 29-year-old. She thinks about her dishes “constantly” she told me, usually about how to improve them. She attended Culinard at Virginia College...
Comments