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Bosom Friends
James Buchanan remains the United States’ only bachelor president – he was technically joined in this feat by Cleveland for one term, but by the time 22 had returned as 24, he had found his better half. Buchanan, though, despite… Continue reading
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Blind Dates with the Selma Newspapers
Recently, while looking for any coverage of George F. Plant, a businessman and Selma politician (serving as a councilman and mayor,), I saw some cryptic strings of letters and numbers at the bottom of most of the advertisements. Puzzled, I… Continue reading
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Visiting Albert in Montgomery
Recently the Alabama Department of Archives and History shared the news on the Selma Alabama History facebook group that they’d cataloged and stored a large collection of materials relating to the Hotel Albert. Now, I have a minor obsession with… Continue reading
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Selma in 1966
The beautiful Pollard building is in the process of being taken down for a parking lot because “Selma is on the move”. The Hotel Albert is two years from that same ignominious fate. Video stretches from the Edmund W. Pettus… Continue reading
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