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Rick Bragg to receive Fitzgerald Museum Literary Prize
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Rick Bragg to be honored with Fitzgerald Museum Literary Prize for Excellence in Writing
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Mike Letcher, whose documentaries covered Alabama culture, dead at 71
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
Documentary filmmaker Michael Letcher s work often highlighted aspects of life in Alabama.Courtesy of Dragonfly Public Media
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Michael Letcher, an award-winning writer, director and editor of documentaries that often addressed culture and race in Alabama, died over the weekend at age 71.
Letcher’s death was confirmed by author Frye Gaillard, whose collaborations with Letcher included work on his 2011 film “In the Path of the Storms.” According to information provided by Gaillard, Northport resident Letcher died after a brief illness unrelated to COVID-19.
“In the Path of the Storms,” which won a regional Emmy, examined life in Bayou La Batre in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Letcher also won a regional Emmy for “Tuskegee, Alabama: Living in Black & White,” which was not his only work to address race
Writer’s tribute to wife finds joy amid heartbreak of cancer fight
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Frye Gaillard s Life As If . is a tribute to his wife Nancy and the unbeatable spirit she carried into her treatment for leukemia.Courtesy of Frye Gaillard
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You’ll be glad you knew Nancy Gaillard, after you read “Live As If …,” a tribute written by the late educator’s husband.
Partly that’s a tribute to Frye Gaillard’s success in making the book about her, and about the spirit she carried through to the end despite the leukemia, rather than about the disease or about his grief. Gaillard has been adept at turning his viewpoints and insights into books such as his 2018 magnum opus “A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility and Innocence Lost.” In this case, though, the measure of his skill is the extent to which he keeps himself out of it.