Jacob Emory Pierce

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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 – Network Tv – A Sign Of The Times

By Jim Casey

• February 2, 2022

60 Seconds • Editorials • Huntsville • Live Stream • News • Panorama • Photography • Technology

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

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.