"County agents in Alabama met with their Congressmen throughout the state recently in annual meetings designed to keep the lawmakers informed on agricultural progress and Extension Service work in their districts. Agents in the first district gave...
"Far over the plains of Monroe County Thursday rang the piercing cry 'P-E-E-G...P-E-E-G...COME ON P-E-E-G,' intersperced with sounds of hogs chomping corn. It was the hog calling contest feature of Monroeville's Regional Hog Show and Festival. In...
In this account Margaret Ervin Austill discusses her family's move from Georgia to Alabama; life on the frontier; and relations with the Indians. In particular she describes local reaction to the fall of Fort Mims in 1813: "Every heart became...