Cover Stories
Survivors & Crimes of the Heart
It wasn’t until Geraldine Barber woke up in East Alabama Medical Center that she realized she had been gambling with her life. Until that moment, she’d been too busy to give all this medical stuff much [...]
True Grits
David Bancroft to Plant “Acre” With the Soul of Southern Cooking A neglected lot sits next to the Shell station at the intersection of Glenn Avenue and Gay Street in Auburn. Over the years, a couple [...]
Will to Win
Linebacker, restaurateur, fitness club owner, father: Herring tackles it all They wait. Like spectators in the final moments of a tied game, with the ball soaring to a striding receiver, they wait. Time stops. The ball [...]
Everything Old Is New Again
The Power of One: Kellie = Re-Invention At forty-two Kellie Guthrie moved in with Mom and Dad in Opelika. Her life had to change. Not just a bit, but completely. As she worked out what she [...]
Tracie West: She’s Got Mail
Auburn Woman Warms Up to Business For Tracie West, the reality of raising two children eight hundred fifty miles from her Alabama family settled in as thick as the snow heaped outside her door. Tracie, her [...]
The Scent of Success
Kasey is on the Case: Dog Detectives Solve Wildlife Riddles A dirt road off Moores Mill Drive in Southeast Auburn meanders through woods, ending at a small opening amid a circle of trees. Lucas Epperson steps [...]
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 [...]
The Upper Crust
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