By Shirley Jackson
Freedom Fest virtual celebration in Birmingham
Stellar-award winner Pastor Michael McClure Jr. will headline Birmingham’s annual celebration of music and empowerment Saturday, July 24. Performances include Translee, Victoria Jones, Brian “Voice Porter” Hawkins, Kristen Glover, Halo Wheeler, Sam Ervin and Spex Da Great. The festival will also feature the Party Rockers with Fly Dave as host. Panel discussion topics include Social Justice in America, IREP: Media Representation and Coverage, Existing: Black Women Segment, and Healthcare, Accessibility and Disparities. For the complete list of panelists, follow this link. Follow the festival’s social media pages on Facebook and Instagram. For a link to the livestream, viewers must fill out an RSVP form. For more information, visit the festival website.
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Steppenwolf and beyond: Alabama guitarist’s magic ride
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
Posted Feb 05, 2021
Canadian-American rock band Steppenwolf pose outside EMI House in London, 20th October 1969. From left to right, they are (back) John Kay, Larry Byrom, Goldy McJohn, Jerry Edmonton, with Nick St. Nicholas in front. (Photo by Michael Webb/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Getty Images
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Here’s the celestial plane Larry Byrom existed on back then: He met Jim Morrison and Neil Young
in the same day. Around that time, Byrom also jammed onstage with Jimi Hendrix at a now legendary Hollywood club. He’s got a memoir’s worth of these crushed-velvet vignettes.
Jerry Summers: Coon Dog Cemetery Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - by Jerry Summers
Jerry Summers
The purpose of this article is not to require a hunter to make a choice as to whether he should provide the most expensive funeral for his beloved coon dog or his faithful wife.
The Coon Dog Cemetery is located seven miles west of Tuscumbia, Alabama in Colbert County on U.S. 72 near Cherokee, Alabama. Turn off the highway onto Alabama 247 and travel approximately 12 miles before turning right onto Coon Dog Cemetery Road and follow the signs.
Eighty three years ago a hunter by the name of Key Underwood buried his dog, a coonhound named Troop, in an old hunting camp where the two of them had enjoyed coon hunting for years.