This destination Alabama cafe is worth the trip, by car or boat
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 17, 2021
Jessica Hanners came back to her hometown of Langston, Ala., to open her Homecoming Cafe in 2018.(Bob Carlton/bcarlton@al.com)
Facebook Share
Jessica Hanners’ culinary journey has taken her from Tuscaloosa to Portland, Charleston to Atlanta.
Now, she’s back home in a little fishing hamlet on Guntersville Lake in the northeast corner of Alabama, where she’s the chef and owner of an off-the-beaten path dining gem that she has affectionately named Homecoming Café & Country Store.
“South Sauty Creek is where we are,” Jessica explains to an out-of-towner. “That’s what our little community is called. It doesn’t even show up on a map. The closest dot is Langston.”
Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys
She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor.
Shelia Washington in an undated photo at the spot where the Scottsboro Boys were arrested. She recognized that their story was an important milestone in the annals of civil rights, and was determined that it be remembered. “The story dies if we don’t tell it,” she said.Credit.William H. Hampton
Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021
Shelia Washington was cleaning her parents’ room at their home in Scottsboro, Ala., in the 1970s when she discovered a paperback book hidden in a pillowcase underneath the bed.
Sheila Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
December 28, 2020 By Shelley Byrne
The state of Tennessee is moving forward with several efforts to combat Asian carp.
Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order September 23 creating the Tennessee Asian Carp Advisory Commission, and the organization had its first meeting December 8.
The commission is formed “Whereas, Tennessee waterways are experiencing an invasion of Asian carp species, which threaten native species and other aquatic life and present a risk to persons and property engaged in commercial and recreational water-related activities,” according to the language in the executive order.
The commission is chaired by Sen. Mike Bell and also includes Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) members and appointees from the Tennessee Wildlife Federation, Department of Economic and Community Development, Department of Tourist Development, Department of Environment and Conservation, the Tennessee Valley Author