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Pepper Place Market
The people who grow things for eating are a fascinating lot, not in an Ivy League intellectual sense but in a down to earth common sense. Ever since Ansel Head’s introduction to these folks while working as a fruit tester … Continue reading
Sloss Furnace Wedding
One afternoon, Ansel Head found himself with nothing to do in Birmingham. This was not uncommon for him. He had left Birmingham many years earlier because his education there was exhausted either from lack of useful content or from his … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham AL, Blast Furnace, Iron, Sloss Furnace, Wedding
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Emory University Hospital.
Ansel Head and his sister took their mother to Emory University Hospital for some heart work; it was necessary because the heart surgeon in Birmingham who did these things had died of a heart attack a few weeks prior. The hospital … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, Birmingham AL, Emory, Mother, Sister, surgeons
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New Photo Galleries.
Ansel Head posted two new photo galleries in the “Head’s Photo Gallery” page – one from the Farmers’ Market and the other from the Botanical Gardens, both in Birmingham.
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Tagged Birmingham AL, Farmers Market, Gardens, Mother, Photography
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Miss Ward’s School
Ansel Head’s father’s friend, Mr. Marks, used to say that everybody had gone to school but no one had been “in” school until they had attended Miss Ward’s. Attending all four years of her elementary academy had made Head a … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham AL, Crestline, Father, Grandmother, Jane, Miss Ward's, Mother, Mrs. Forman, Ramsey High, Ross, Sister, Tiny Kingdom
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The Gathering Storm
The days were growing longer that May of 1954. Ansel Head and his sister were in the back seat of their father’s Super 88 Oldsmobile on the way to join Simple Simon at Howard Johnson’s on the Atlanta Highway; Head’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham AL, Father, Howard Johnson's, Integration, Mary, Mother, Sister, Supreme Court
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Three Friends Start Out Together
Miss Ward had done the best she could with Ansel Head. By the time he was nine, her forbearance was exhausted; he would have to move on to another school. Four years was all she could endure any one boy. … Continue reading
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Tagged Achievers, Birmingham AL, BUS, Father, Henry, Miss Ward, Tiny Kingdom, Wilbur
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Three Friends Avoid Exceptionalism
The three friends – Ansel Head, Henry, and Wilbur, all princes from the Tiny Kingdom – started together at the Birmingham University School in the fifth grade, lived as whites in a segregated society, and like most young males regardless … Continue reading
First Kiss
“Whatcha doin?” Ansel Head asked his friend Wilbur. They were at Wilbur’s parent’s house at Smyer Lake. Head often spent the weekends with Wilbur and his family; it was much closer to Birmingham than Lake Martin and because it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham AL, Bourbon, Guns, Kissing, Lake Martin, Smyer Lake, Wilbur
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