Back home : journeys through Mobile /
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| Author / Creator: | Hoffman, Roy, 1953- |
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| Imprint: | Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2001. |
| Description: | xii, 380 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4428897 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I. Going Downtown
- My Grandfather's World
- A Walk Down Dauphin
- A Contract for Watermelons
- The Enduring Ring
- Corner Drugstores, Moviehouses, and Bread
- The Lost Counter Culture
- Moviehouse Dreams
- Our Daily Bread
- Pictures of Overbey
- Bienville Square Bus Stop
- Part II. On the Dock of the Bay
- Reading the Lights
- On Fairhope Pier
- Coming to Port
- A Night With a Bar Pilot
- Bearing the Load
- Shore Leave
- Hurricane Chronicles
- Hurricane People
- Old Hurricane Stories
- Waiting for Georges
- A World of Water
- Jubilee!
- Part III. Through the Countryside
- Old Highway 90
- King Cotton's New Face
- The Miller's Tale
- The Music of "Pah-cahns"
- Part IV. Colorful Competitions
- Baseball in the Blood
- Tommie Littleton: Gentleman Boxer
- Men of Steel: Wheelchair Basketball
- The Great Anvil Shoot
- Part V. Tangled Legacies
- Peter's Legacies
- Search for a Slave Ship
- Alexis Herman Comes Home
- Long Lives the Mockingbird
- Part VI. Newcomers Among Us
- Las Familias de la Tierra
- By the Sweat of Their Brows
- Helping Hands for Children
- On the Asian Coast
- Khampou's Village
- Buddhist Temple
- Part VII. Intriguing Portraits
- Sage Voices
- Joe Langan's City Limits
- Albert Murray's House of Blues
- Alma Fisher: Out of Auschwitz
- Past Triumphs
- Dr. James Franklin: Healing Us Still
- Ben May: The Quiet Philanthropist
- U.S. Attorney Armbrecht: A Matter of Will
- Close Ties Far Away
- Morocco to Mobile: Paul Bowles' Secret Journey
- Monumental Talent: Tina Allen's Heroic Sculptures
- Part VIII. The Seasonal Round
- As the Calendar Turns
- Rain Town, U.S.A.
- Azaleas at 8 mph
- Point Clear P.O.
- In My Parents' Dancesteps
- The End-of-Year Recital
- Summer Heat
- The First Music of Fall
- Already Home for the Holidays
- Snow!
- Holiday Lights
- Marking Time
- Part IX. Mardi Gras Drums
- Let the Good Times Roll
- Welcome Millennium
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
