Alabama Shakes is a Grammy-winning American soul and blues rock band that formed in Athens, Limestone County, in 2009. Lead by singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, the Shakes’ debut album, [more]

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born in Montgomery on July 24, 1900.  An artist, dancer and writer, she and her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, came to be icons of the Roaring [more]

Barbecue, the age-old art and science of slow-cooking meat, is revered in the state of Alabama, from pecan-infused pork in Mobile to white sauce-soaked chicken on the banks of the [more]

Established in 1953, Alabama Public Television was the first educational television network in the United States.  With much of the state struggling to support standalone educational systems, Gov. Gordon Persons encouraged the State [more]

The McCurdy Plantation Horse is a gaited breed of horse developed by the McCurdy family of Lowndes County in the late nineteenth century. “McCurdy Walkers” are typically gray with full [more]

Funk and soul band the Commodores emerged from the Tuskegee Institute in the late 1960s to become a widely known and popular Motown act.  The ensemble, which included future solo [more]

Cleburne County natives, Seaborn and Thomas Denson, better known as the Denson Brothers, were the patriarchs of Alabama Sacred Harp music. They produced the seminal Sacred Harp songbook and for [more]

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is among the 10 largest Shakespeare festivals in the world and one of the most ambitious theatre institutions in the United States. The organization offers a [more]

Sylacauga native Jim Nabors is best known for playing Gomer Pyle on the Andy Griffith Show. Pyle’s catch phrases “well gollee” and “shazam” would become household favorites. Nabors was a [more]

Often referred to as the Marble City, Sylacauga sits atop a bed of marble 32 miles long, a mile and a half wide, and 400 feet deep. Alabama marble occurs [more]