We Need a “Program” for the Good Guys

“Hey, get your program.  Hey, programs here.  How you gonna know the players without a program?”
I can recall that refrain echoing across the bleachers at Rickwood Field in those not-so-long-ago days when true baseball giants to-be were just the ordinary guys in the Birmingham line-up.  They were the A’s then.  Pitchers like Raleigh Fingers, “Catfish” [...]

A “Park-ner-ship” for the Future

Much has been said about Birmingham’s ample green space.  And it is ample – more than, in fact.  To put it simply, we love parks.  Parks are a big deal here, and likely to get bigger when we start connecting them all, one to another.  But that’s jumping ahead.
Birmingham is a very green city and region [...]

With Apologies to Mr. Dylan

When Bob Dylan’s famous lament on the nature of hypocrisy first made the charts, those of us who are now called Baby Boomers memorized all the words.  Positively 4th Street pretty much laid it all bare and Dylan’s  words seemed to capture what we in the 60s thought typified the hypocracy we saw all around us – [...]