On May 31, 2024 Birmingham-Southern College will close its doors forever after a long history. I received a Bachelor of Arts degree from that institution in 1961, along with honors including membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa honorary fraternities. This is the second time an institution from which I received a degree has closed: in the early 1990s the Columbia University School of Library Service, from which I received a Masters of Library Science, was closed down by the larger institution. Maybe I’m the Typhoid Mary of institutions . . . But the handwriting had been starkly on the wall for both institutions for some time.
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Recently I have added 2 works to my published oeuvre: “White on Black: Thinking about Race in a Small Alabama Community” came out a few months back and “Remembering my Forebears: The Turbervilles of Greensboro and the Mays of Hollow Square and Sawyerville, Hale County, Alabama” is available in both paperback and eBook editions on February 1, 2024.They are, in my opinion, companion pieces, each one shedding some light on the other.
A few weeks back I downloaded from Kindle Direct Publishing a program called Kindle Create. I made use of it on an earlier project, but now I wanted to create something in which that program would take the central role. Hence the compilation “Star-Gazing and Navel-Gazing: Art, Artists, and Me.”
To honor his life on the occasion of its passing I will share a chapter from my not-yet-published “Star-Gazing and Navel-Gazing: Art, Artists, and Me.”
16. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (AND OTHERS)
Flora Eloise Pickens was born on October 6, 1886 into great wealth and social position on Umbria Plantation in Sawyerville, Alabama. She died on August 12, 1964 as a charity case at the nursing home in Greensboro, her only possessions being her wedding ring and a photograph of her late husband, Will Lunsford, who had died in 1943. She had pawned that wedding ring, but a niece, upon discovering that, had redeemed it and restored it to her.
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