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January 09, 2009
Bill Robinson: We can’t let the Titanic rest in peace
It was a sad scene, both dramatically and factually. In the movie “Titanic,” Jack tells his soul mate Rose that, “I’ll wait right here ...!”
January 05, 2009
Bill Robinson: Patton admired Auburn’s fighting spirit
George Patton was perhaps the most celebrated soldier in America since Stonewall Jackson.
November 24, 2008
Bill Robinson: Old days on the old assembly line
We walked with a certain swagger, and I can promise you, the cockiness was earned. With a bit of blood and whole lot of sweat. We worked on the assembly line in Linden in New Jersey. Some 5,500 assembly workers we were.
September 22, 2008
Bill Robinson: Cool winds of autumn finally blow in
Finally, the world turned. At least in Alabama. On this past Monday, cool winds blew in, bringing in the first churlish temperatures.
July 09, 2008
Bill Robinson: Why didn’t Helen Keller return?
At 19 months, Helen Keller was stricken with an illness that left her deaf and blind. When Anne Masefield Sullivan wasn’t brought to Helen’s home in Tuscumbia on March 3, 1887, a new world was slowly opened to the little girl.
May 27, 2008
Bill Robinson: Like JFK, Abe’s death has question marks
What began as an innocent night at the theater for President Abraham Lincoln ended in tragedy. The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, a racist and Southern sympathizer, easily approached Lincoln at Ford’s Theater at 10:15 on the night of April 14, 1865. Booth shot the president in the back of the head, then jumped down to the stage and escaped.
May 05, 2008
Bill Robinson: 1940s British crisis helped FDR politically
The year 1940 was a contrast in beauty and ruin in Alabama and the Deep South. I miss the great and accurate “geometry of the fields,” which was common to Chambers County ... and indeed the entire South in that time.
April 21, 2008
Bill Robinson: FDR defined the poor of America
Franklin Roosevelt, descended from political royalty. He actually defined the poor of America.
April 14, 2008
Bill Robinson: Depressed America needed FDR
The Great Depression was about to enter its eighth year. President Franklin Roosevelt was hoping to win a second term to complete his New Deal program.
February 19, 2008
Carver turned peanuts into more than just food
George Washington Carver was a young man when he first heard Booker T. Washington deliver a speech from a podium. At first he was intrigued, then he became inspired.
February 04, 2008
Bill Robinson: McCain keeps coming back from the dead
Just how many lives, both real and political, does John McCain possess? He’s growing a bit long in the tooth now, but a young John McCain survived a horrendous fire on an aircraft carrier.
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