Back Home : Journeys through Mobile / Roy Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Roy, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobile (Ala.)--Biography.

Mobile (Ala.).

Mobile (Ala.)--History.

Mobile (Ala.)--Description and travel.

Hoffman, Roy, 1953---Childhood and youth.

Hoffman, Roy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takes a long look back at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffman tells stories--through essays, feature articles, and memoir--of one of the South''s oldest and most colorful port cities. Many of the pieces here grew out of Hoffman''s work as Writer-in-Residence for his hometown newspaper,the Mobile Register, a position he took after working in New York City for twenty years as a journalist, fiction writer, book critic, teacher,and speech writer.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I. Going Downtown; My Grandfather''s World; A Walk Down Dauphin; A Contract for Watermelons; The Enduring Ring; Corner Drugstores, Movie houses, and Bread; The Lost Counter Culture; Moviehouse Dreams; Our Daily Bread; Pictures of Overbey; Bienville Square Bus Stop; Part II. On the Dock of the Bay; Reading the Lights; On Fairhope Pier; Coming to Port; A Night With a Bar Pilot; Bearing the Load; Shore Leave; Hurricane Chronicles; Hurricane People; Old Hurricane Stories; Waiting for Georges; A World of Water; Jubilee!

Part III. Through the Countryside Old Highway 90; King Cotton''s New Face; The Miller''s Tale; The Music of ""Pah-cahns""; Part IV. Colorful Competitions; Baseball in the Blood; Tommie Littleton: Gentleman Boxer; Men of Steel: Wheelchair Basketball; The Great Anvil Shoot; Part V. Tangled Legacies; Peter''s Legacies; Search for a Slave Ship; Alexis Herman Comes Home; Long Lives the Mockingbird; Part VI. Newcomers Among Us; Las Familias de la Tierra; By the Sweat of Their Brows; Helping Hands for Children; On the Asian Coast; Khampou''s Village; Buddhist Temple; Part VII. Intriguing Portraits

Sage Voices Joe Langan''s City Limits; Albert Murray''s House of Blues; Alma Fisher: Out of Auschwitz; Past Triumphs; Dr. James Franklin: Healing Us Still; Ben May: The Quiet Philanthropist; U.S. Attorney Armbrecht: A Matter of Will; Close Ties Far Away; Morocco to Mobile: Paul Bowles'' Secret Journey; Monumental Talent: Tina Allen''s Heroic Sculptures; Part VIII. The Seasonal Round; As the Calendar Turns; Rain Town, U.S.A.; Azaleas at 8 mph; Point Clear P.O.; In My Parents'' Dancesteps; The End-of-Year Recital; Summer Heat; The First Music of Fall; Already Home for the Holidays; Snow!

Holiday LightsMarking Time; Part IX. Mardi Gras Drums; Let the Good Times Roll; Welcome Millennium; Acknowledgments; Permissions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8830-3

OCLC:

886111618