While he was often unable to attend Trustee meetings, he rarely missed an event, and supported BHS in numerous significant ways. He was our friend and advisor, an avid historian, and a cheerleader for Birmingham, its community, and the numerous students he mentored in addition to the hundreds...
March 6, 2023 First Trustee Meeting of the year is Tuesday, March 7th, at noon for lunch, at 2827 Highland Avenue. Note that according to the by-laws, you must attend at least two of the four Trustee meetings annually. As a reminder, in order to maintain your Trustee status, you ...
For those in New York City, there will also be a pair of pre-ball workshops on Victorian couple dances and set dances this Sunday, March 27th. Full details are here; a workshop flyer may be downloaded from this workshop flyers page. Obviously, fancy dress based on the styles of the 18...
The Sketch: As a show filmed in New York City, SNL aired its first post-9/11 episode less than three weeks after the event. As the first episode of the 27th season, the show was hosted by actress Reese Witherspoon and featured Alicia Keys as the musical guest. In the cold open, SNL...
Thanks for coming! Lots of interest in our Highland Park neighborhood, at an event in which Birmingham Historical Society displayed photographs of nearly all the original homes constructed along Highland Avenue (many courtesy of historian and neighbor Randy Merritt).Our Open Houseincluded not only our...
Next year, 2013, Lissenhall will celebrate a very special event – the 50th anniversary of the opening of its community centre. But the building which has been the centre of social activities in the area for half a century has a far older history, which hopefully will be the subject of ...
The point would be crucial, but nobody in 1754 appears to have remembered that on February 21, three weeks after the event, at the trial of Mother Wells, Adamson had given exactly the same evidence as in May 1754. 'I returned to meet her, and asked her about the room. She described...
Moscow, 27th September. The Russian General Staff announced the following communiqué about its operations in Poland on the 25th of September: During its march towards the demarcation line, on September 25th, units of the Red Army occupied the cities of Suwałki and Goniądz, as well as the...
live to the age of Methusela we must die, but to him that is prepared it is a joyful event, but to him that is not, nothing can be more solemn. (In this entry he begins to write "Private Journal" at the top of each page and continues this practice for the rest of the journal...
Always a popular annual event, this year’s entries included one cake which gave a nod to the speaker’s topic onAncient Life in Alabamaand was crawling with dinosaurs instead of fruit. The young baker explained that the dinosaurs were eating the fruit layer because it came into being during...