Archive for 'Cover Stories'
The Houses that Jacquelyn Built
Early afternoon light floods through the open front door of this home-in-the-works and comes to rest on a tall woman with sand-colored hair as she leans against the doorframe, thoughtfully watching nine men smooth wet concrete [...]
The Simple Lesson: Becky Benton and Helping Others
Becky Benton and Helping Others Every Monday afternoon, Becky Benton’s mother went visiting. They called it visiting shut-ins in those days, and her mother took it on as her duty in the town of Opp, Alabama, [...]
Tommie Agee
Another Bowl Conquered! Tommie Agee knows his way around more than the football field. The former NFL running back and veteran of two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys – is no slouch around the mixing [...]
Lucy Littleton’s Parties
A who’s who of dinner guests - Novelist and poet laureate Robert Penn Warren. Historian Shelby Foote. Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and British broadcaster David Attenborough. Lucy Littleton fed them all. Evolutionary biologists Stephen J. Gould and [...]
Pressure Cooker
How Judy Simon turned trials into tasty meals Baptism by fire — that’s how Judy Simon has twice made giant leaps forward in her mastery of the culinary arts. The first time was when she was [...]
Bloomin’ Patti!
The ever growing garden of a master Members of Patti Householder’s family get to shop at “Mom’s Store” on a regular basis. They can select from canned vegetables, applesauce, honey, dried fruit leather, tomato sauce, and spicy [...]
The Taming of the Brain
Linda Drummond’s handwriting was changing. Her normal loops and flourishes were shrinking into a cramped scrawl that was work to put on the page. It was 2001. She was thirty-nine years old with two daughters, six [...]
When the Mighty Fall
Can it be true? Auburn University issued the initial Toomer’s Corner press release on February 16th. The first line alone was enough to stop AU fans in their tracks: “Auburn University today confirmed that an herbicide [...]
Her Brothers’ Keeper
Sandra L. Taylor took her current job in Alabama because she got a bigger office – one with a view. Here in Alabama, her workplace with the National Park Service (NPS) spans more than 90 miles [...]
Bringing Auburn to the World
June Henton June Henton, dean of the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University, is visiting a refugee camp. This refugee camp is full of students and located on AU’s Cater Lawn, but the guards — [...]
The Upper Crust
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