Take Your Four-Legged Friend on Your Next Hike By Marilyn Jones The number of four-legged friends who travel with their humans might surprise you.  Seventy-eight percent of American pet owners travel with their pets each year. According to Hilton Hotels & Resorts, 58 percent of...
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Celebrates 44th Year By Lenore Vickrey For many folks in Henagar, Alabama, a small town (pop. 2,500) in DeKalb County, their first job was working in a potato shed. “I was raised working in it (the potato industry),” says Starr McCurdy Mitchell, who grew up...
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U.S. Space & Rocket Center Planetarium named best in nation  By Aaron Tanner Photos Courtesy U.S. Space & Rocket Center For more than 50 years, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville has invited visitors to enjoy an out-of-this-world experience. This year, the center’s...
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Richmond Hobson sinks the Merrimac At the end of the 19th century, during America’s short-lived war with Spain, a young Alabama naval officer distinguished himself

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Too Old for a New Truck

Well, it’s official. Today I learned that I am too old to buy a truck. On a day when most people rejoice because they have

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Mom’s Signature Recipe

Food prepared, styled and photographed by Brooke Echols Cook of the Month Beth Lewis, Joe Wheeler EMC Beth Lewis’s mother, Alice Bass,  had two or three

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Uncle E’s Barbecue and Catering

Greenville family business loves making people happy. Story & Photos By Jennifer Kornegay In 2020, after enduring months of shutdowns and all kinds of COVID-born hardships,

Electric Cooperatives

Since 1936 electric co-ops have built 2.5 million miles of power lines across rural America – long enough to reach from the earth to the moon five and a half times.

From booming suburbs to remote rural farming communities, Alabama’s electric cooperatives are energy providers and engines of economic development. Statewide, electric cooperatives serve more than 1 million Alabamians in their homes, businesses, farms and schools. Their coverage spans approximately 70% of Alabama’s landmass.

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Capital Fishing

Summer nights can be ideal for catching catfish Industrial noises emanating through the darkness, the occasional banging of railroad yard workers hooking up boxcars and

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Dealing With a Dry Spell:

Practical strategies that make a difference In Alabama, we frequently deal with drought conditions.  When dry weather sets in, many residents worry about how their landscapes

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Off-the-beaten-path atmosphere in the center of Alabama’s popular beach destination Story & photos by Colette Boehm “It sure would make a

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