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Did you know that the largest Fourth of July air show in the country is right here in West Michigan? It's Battle Creek's Field of Flight Airshow and it's currently in the running for best airshow in the U.S.
As a nearly 20-year resident of the little town of Waverly in east Alabama, Andy Anderson likes to say his adopted hometown is “two square miles and a long way from anywhere else.” Waverly has a post office, four churches, about 145 residents and not a single traffic light. It also has the Waverly Local, a Southern dining gem in a century-old building that has become a destination for folks .
Meet the Alabama beekeeper whose honey is all the buzz
Updated 7:39 AM;
Today 7:15 AM
This old tractor with a tree growing through the middle of it was the inspiration for the Eastaboga Bee Company s logo. (Bob Carlton/bcarlton@al.com)
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A tall, bushy privet has grown up between the seat and steering wheel of the rusted, old Oliver tractor, which is parked right where Elvin Hill left it nearly 50 years ago.
“Something broke on it and he was fixing it and he stopped for lunch and he had a massive heart attack and passed away,” Hill’s great-grandson, Justin Hill, explains to a visitor to his farm. “And they just never moved it.”
The story behind this essential Alabama soul food restaurant
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 29, 2021
A line of customers starts to form at Eagle s Restaurant at 10 o clock on a Sunday morning 30 minutes before the restaurant opens. Regulars know to get there early to beat the Sunday lunch rush.(Bob Carlton/bcarlton@al.com)
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The regulars know to get here early on Sunday morning.
By 10 o’clock, a half-hour before Eagle’s Restaurant opens its takeout windows, a socially distant line has already started forming, stretching from the front of the little cinderblock building down 16th Street North toward Birmingham’s ACIPCO pipe plant.