Great visit today to Tuscaloosa’s Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum. I am grateful to my colleague Katherine Edge, the museum’s Director, for always being so helpful. She generously discussed our shared past. I was also grateful to see how my colleague Dr. Hilary Green’s expertise figured into the exhibit. The current exhibit is a part… Continue reading students impress during visit to local Transportation museum
Just returned from a great day trip to the Library of Congress courtesy of the University of Alabama. The university permits researchers and staff to travel to DC for a day via a plane ride! I met some of the most incredible scholars and employees. I hope we all meet again as we promised to… Continue reading great trip to the Library of Congress
I don’t get to paint as often as I’d like. But I sure do get to enjoy great art in Tuscaloosa. Some of the best moments to see such art occur during our annual Kentuck Art Festival. While there, I purchase and enjoy looking at art. I also enjoy speaking to local and national artists.… Continue reading another great kentuck
I am so geeked today. My “Antebellum America” students and I will travel to the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library and to the Paul Jones Collection. Both are housed in our university’s Mary Harmon Bryant Hall. We have two goals. They will be invited to, first, think about how old letters and art are wonderful… Continue reading taking it to the archive
I just returned from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) conference in North Charleston, SC. There, I met some incredible scholarly-sisters. Some of them were also my sorority sisters. One of them was a sister in art of long standing. I reflect now on it all. My faith… Continue reading return
You know it’s getting getting getting kinda hectic (Snap/The Power for us old skul types) when you are prepping for a new course called “Race and Music in the UK”, your first for your university’s Alabama at Oxford study abroad program, and a pile of books to be considered keeps getting taller and taller. How… Continue reading music and race in the uk
My husband and I followed part of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad tour in Maryland. We have done this twice before after the completion of a conference he attends every other year at the U.S. Naval Academy. We left Annapolis for the new state park center constructed five years ago as a tribute to Tubman,… Continue reading tubman tour fiercely touches me
