Cannon Balls Redux – WAR!

• February 20, 2022

This live walkabout in downtown Huntsville features Huntsville’s renown Spite House, Maria Howard Weeden, a desperado named Frank James the older brother of Jesse James no less, and the first Confederate Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker who gave the word to fire upon Fort Sumter starting the Civil War.

Cannon Balls Redux Series

Cannon Balls Redux – If The Horseshoe Fits

Episcopal Church of the Nativity in downtown Huntsville

Jim Porter Casey • March 25, 2022
60 Seconds • Editorials • Huntsville • Live Stream • News

Jim Casey goes live walkabout again in downtown Huntsville starting at the Calhoun House historic marker where the last walkabout in this series left off. Watch the video for more commentary and information, and to see all the historic scenes in this remarkably small half-mile stretch in downtown Huntsville, Alabama.

Cannon Balls Redux – WAR!

Jim Porter Casey • February 20, 2022
60 Seconds • Editorials • Huntsville • Live Stream • News • Snapshots

Cannon Balls Redux – Network Tv – A Sign Of The Times

Mainstream media satellite trucks counting the minutes in 2005 awaiting Eric Rudolph to appear at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Huntsville.

Jim Porter Casey • February 2, 2022
60 Seconds • Editorials • Huntsville • Live Stream • News • Panorama • Photography • Technology

This live-stream walkabout is, in a lot of ways, about the transition of media, all media, from print and broadcast TV, to Internet digital. It’s also about Huntsville events and landmarks past, present and future, and a man whose elevator didn’t quite reach the top.

Cannon Ball Run Redux

Jim Porter Casey • January 18, 2022
60 Seconds • Editorials • Huntsville • Live Stream • News

Jim Casey goes live walkabout in downtown Huntsville this time returning to the scene of many seemingly unconnected events that deserve to be revisited.