Distracted by Alabama : tangled threads of natural history, local history, and folklore /
"In 1971, Jim Brown moved to Birmingham with his young family to start his first full-time teaching job at Samford University. Within days, he was fishing on the Cahaba River; soon, the entire Brown family was regularly exploring the river's twists and turns and the myriad creatures living...
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
2022
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Table of Contents:
- Immersed in the Cahaba River
- Homewood's salamander migration and festival
- The Archy Culvert, a.k.a. Ross Bridge
- Foxfire, folk crafts, and folkcenter south
- What wondrous love is this : Sacred harp singing
- Telescoping time : landscape architecture, historical geography, and greenways
- Herb Doctor Tommie Bass and the scholars
- Experimenting with experiential education
- Survival of the great shoal fishtrap and other old practices
- River redhorse and the seasonal snaring thereof
- The mountain workshop of the Alabama Audubon Society
- For the amusement of the boys : John Mealing, railroad caller.
