IMPORTANT UPDATE 2019.12.05
In fact, I was able to pass through the crossing earlier today. The reconstruction appears to have been finished early today or late yesterday afternoon and seems to be complete.
Category: Huntsville
Huntsville, Alabama – home of NASA, Rocket Scientist Werner Von Braun, The US Space & Rocket Center, Redstone Arsenal and King Cotton – provides many stories that are locally inspired but that are often of national interest as well. Topics include current Mayor Tommy Battle, The Historic Huntsville Depot, and picturesque Big Spring Park.
Another Historic Home Burns In Huntsville
Yet another historic home burned in Huntsville last week.
Church Street Quiet This Week
All’s quiet on Church Street this Thanksgiving season. Al DOT has suspended all temporary roadwork closures for the holiday as the site in the photo is at a standstill.
Historic Huntsville Home On Randolph Ave. Burns
Tragedy struck Huntsville’s affluent downtown neighborhood early Sunday morning when the historic 1889 Davis House caught fire.
East Huntsville House Fire Leaves One Dead
House fire turns deadly in Five Points neighborhood.
Devastating Storms Totals Home
This home in an East Huntsville neighborhood met with disaster as a large tree fell squarely onto the house, and in my estimation, leaving it a total loss.
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
After I pulled up the photo of Jeff Cook of the Alabama band last week, I took a second look at the photo set I have of Lynard Skynard hoping to find a shot suitable for a future TOCC TV cover. Alas, the band is worthy but my photography is not. Well, reall it is, but putting a horizontal aspect ratio onto a verticle cover just isn’t going to fit.
Jeff Cook Of Alabama Signs Off
I don’t really think that Jeff Cook has been hanging out on the square in downtown Huntsville for 107 years. The photo above was taken in 2005 when the fiddler guitarist of legendary country/pop band Alabama stopped over in Huntsville to sign autographs at the historic Harrison Brother’s Hardware store in downtown Huntsville. The band was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
Snowy Big Spring
Remember the olden days when we used to build web pages with lots of tricks like this? In honor of the white stuff on the ground this weekend, I decided to… stay indoors and drag out this shot, actually nine shots stitched together from the great snow of 2011. I took a bunch of photos in the snow back then that I really like, mostly because I don’t have to go out and get them now.
R.I.P. Glenn Allen Koch, Sr. 1953 – 2015
For those non-the-wiser, “Koch” is pronounced like the popular soft drink “Coke” and is a double-entendre whose meaning is defined most literally as “coal” not unlike what you burn in a bar-b-cue grill, but is also used to refer colloquially to the Human “coke” machine…