"You must be present to win!"

BALD EAGLE over the RiverWalk

 Hickman

from the December 4, 1944 PRATTVILLE PROGRESS (this article was published by newspapers in Jackson, Prattville, Guntersville, Wetumpka, Linden, Centreville, Atmore and Camden)

 from the December 14, 1939 PICKENS COUNTY HERALD

 from the April 13, 1944 PICKENS COUNTY HERALD

from the November 4, 1937 PICKENS COUNTY HERALD

 from the January 19, 1939 PICKENS COUNTY HERALD

from the August 7, 1952 SAND MOUNTAIN REPORTER

 

 

from the April 28, 1938 PICKENS COUNTY HERALD

from the March 26, 1953 BIRMINGHAM NEWS

My INITIAL connection to DENNY HICKMAN: Dothan's A.A. Middleton & Gordo's Herman Hickman in the same 1953 photo.

from the February 8, 1940 PICKENS COUNTY HERALD

from the January 29, 1959 SAND MOUNTAIN REPORTER

 Celebrating THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME FIRST-AID SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2024!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OY5lIWslhs

Gonna try to get the mess cleaned up under the bridge before the another flock of FREE BIRDS fly in here towards the end of April.

 

 

My buddy, CHUCKIE

 

Seeing two Confederate salt pots in a month has given me a new appreciation of my Civil War salt famine blog post and my PANAMA CITY LIVING magazine article, SALT OF THE EARTH: The Confederate salt makers of St. Andrews Bay.

My visit to the Tannehill museum gave me a new found passion for bloomery forges, blast furnaces & water power/steam power forced air. Found this video of a water wheel powering a bellows. The bellows part starts at 40 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVYlrehnoA