Category: INSPIRATION
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Riding with the Mobile Police Department, Part 2
On a muggy pre-dawn morning in mid-May, I entered the behind-the-scenes section of Precinct 3 (northeast Mobile) for the first time. While each precinct is similar, there are differences beyond the age and architecture of the buildings that set a certain tone to each shift. The atmosphere that Saturday morning was eagerness to start the…
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Riding with the Mobile Police Department, Part 1
After completing “Fragments Observed: Life During Mobile’s Progressive Era” last month, I’m pleased to announce a new blog series that will hopefully take us through the end of the year. New articles in “Fragments Observed: Riding with the Mobile Police Department” will post the third week each month. In keeping with the tone of the…
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Part Ten, Washington Square Park
The namesake of my most recent series Washington Square Secrets is the neighborhood surrounding Washington Square Park. The area is also prominent in The Malevolent Trilogy and a couple of my short stories. The park has stood since 1850 in what is now called the Oakleigh Garden District, one of Mobile’s not-so-hidden treasures. As seen…
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Part Seven, The Cathedral
If there was one location that united all my historical novels it would be The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The first Catholic Parish in Mobile was founded in 1703 at the site of the previous town settlement—upriver from what is now the city, though it moved south less than a decade later. To say…
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Part Six, Barton Academy
Mobile boasts a lot of firsts, records, and odd (but noteworthy) things for the state of Alabama, the region, and even the country. We are the birthplace of Mardi Gras. The first reinforced concrete skyscraper in Alabama was the Van Antwerp building by George B. Rogers, completed in 1907 at the corner of Royal and…
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