Guntersville Lake HydroFest is back; tickets now on sale Tickets for Guntersville Lake HydroFest 2021 go on sale April 1 (Source: HydroFest) By Anna Mahan | March 31, 2021 at 9:37 PM CDT - Updated April 1 at 5:51 PM
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Every summer, people from all over travel south to visit Alabama’s beaches and lakes. This summer, Guntersville Lake is welcoming back the fastest boat drivers for HydroFest!
HydroFest is a two-day summer event where the fastest boats will race to take home the Southern Cup title.
Guntersville Lake HydroFest will take place June 26-27, 2021, and tickets go on sale Thursday, April 1.
This tradition dates back to the 1940s and is back after last year’s cancellation due to COVID-19.
This destination Alabama cafe is worth the trip, by car or boat
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 17, 2021
Jessica Hanners came back to her hometown of Langston, Ala., to open her Homecoming Cafe in 2018.(Bob Carlton/bcarlton@al.com)
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Jessica Hanners’ culinary journey has taken her from Tuscaloosa to Portland, Charleston to Atlanta.
Now, she’s back home in a little fishing hamlet on Guntersville Lake in the northeast corner of Alabama, where she’s the chef and owner of an off-the-beaten path dining gem that she has affectionately named Homecoming Café & Country Store.
“South Sauty Creek is where we are,” Jessica explains to an out-of-towner. “That’s what our little community is called. It doesn’t even show up on a map. The closest dot is Langston.”
Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys
She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor.
Shelia Washington in an undated photo at the spot where the Scottsboro Boys were arrested. She recognized that their story was an important milestone in the annals of civil rights, and was determined that it be remembered. “The story dies if we don’t tell it,” she said.Credit.William H. Hampton
Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021
Shelia Washington was cleaning her parents’ room at their home in Scottsboro, Ala., in the 1970s when she discovered a paperback book hidden in a pillowcase underneath the bed.