Betty Phillips, Mutual Broadcasting Company's 2000th Queen for a Day, visited Dothan in 1952.
Over the years the National Peanut Festival has produced hundreds of local queens and princesses, but in 1952 it hosted one whose name was not known until October 24.
That was Betty Phillips of Los Angeles, who was the Mutual Broadcasting System’s 2000th Queen for A Day.
“Queen For A Day” was a game show…
The wreck of the "Second 180" and "Extra 452" in the Wiregrass led to changes in train management.
On Sept. 24, 1945, at 2:05 p.m., Atlantic Coast Line train “Extra 452 West” from Dothan collided headlong into ACL “Second 180 East,” killing the 452’s engineer, James A. Mangum of Montgomery, and injuring 16 others.
Tom Solomon, a resident of Headland, employee of the ACL, and “well known railroad artist and train enthusiast” owned…
Olga Casey, a librarian on the Dothan Campus who is Ukrainian, accepts gifts from CUSPU students in 2014. (Wiregrass Archives)
Ukraine has been in the news for the past year over its hot war with its neighbor, the Russian Federation.
What you might not know is that the Troy Dothan Library has had a “Sister Library” partnership with the Central Ukrainian State University Library. Beginning in 2009, Troy Dothan librarian Olga Casey (a native of Ukraine…
Two of the Tallassee boys who answered the call in World War I, Willie Pierce, left, and Loman Ballard.
When soldiers fight away from home, they leave behind non-combatants – mothers, fathers, siblings, and friends. Some friends were young women with whom the soldier-boys (and don’t forget that most of them were exactly that) had grown up. Today’s post concerns one young woman soldiers corresponded with, and what those letters tell us not only about them…
