Search in Africatown: Researchers to look for graves of former slaves and descendants from the Clotilda
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
The Africatown Welcome Center is pictured on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in Mobile, Ala. At the time, the welcome center was housed in a mobile home across from the Old Plateau Cemetery. The new center will be located in the same spot, but it will be much larger (approximately 18,000 square feet) and serve as a tourist attraction. That project is being funded by RESTORE Act money. But before the project can move forward, an excavation is required to determine if any graves are located on the property.(Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)
Little could anyone have imagined when 2020 began how it would end: in the throes of a pandemic that has devastated millions of lives and upended the health care system, politics, government, the economy, schools, workplaces and simply how we navigate a suddenly and utterly altered world.
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In recent months, Aaron Curtis didn’t always wear a mask in public, and he went with his wife to Springfield-area restaurants where people at nearby tables also weren’t wearing masks.
“He didn’t think it would happen to him,” Aaron’s wife, Dia Curtis, told The State Journal-Register.
Aaron, 46, a throat-cancer survivor, now struggles to find the strength to walk to the bathroom in his Waverly home. He s recovering from damaged lungs caused by a bout with COVID-19.
Aaron’s view of the virus changed after he spent almost three weeks last month in an intensive-care unit at Springfield’s HSHS St. John’s Hospital.
Montville – The town and one of its churches are working separately toward a common goal: Feed residents who need food.
Montville Senior & Social Services Director Kathleen Doherty-Peck said each year around the holidays, the town provides food and toy baskets to residents in need. On Saturday, the department distributed more than 400 food baskets and another 600 gift baskets for children.
Doherty-Peck called the initiative, which has taken months of work, “gigantic,” and said the COVID-19 pandemic has made her department’s busy season even busier. She recognized her colleagues for their work, especially since they’re missing the help of volunteers from the senior center, which is closed because of the pandemic.
Alabama State graduate who mentored 2 generations dead of COVID
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
By Isabelle Taft The Sun Herald (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
To two generations of Jackson County kids, he was Uncle Beev: James Davis, Jr., the director of the Boys & Girls Club Andrew Johnson unit in Pascagoula, and fixture at every high school football and basketball game.
Though few knew the story, and some who once knew it had forgotten it, the nickname Beev dated to childhood, when he had been a skinny kid with big front teeth. The nickname was “Beaver” at first, but Beev was what stuck.