I call my photography my "Third Act". I spent about 25 years on radio, about 25 years on TV. Now, in "retirement", I'm focusing more on photography, though I have used a camera most of my life. On these pages you'll find photos I have taken since childhood. Hope you enjoy! Please do not post these photos anywhere without permission.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
The Alabama soldiers who fought FOR The Union.
“It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into our understanding of our nation, and allows us to embrace new heroes of the past.”—Imani Perry, professor, Harvard University, and National Book Award–winning author of South to America
We all know how the Civil War was won: Courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But is there more to the story?
As Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers—including at least one member of Raines’s own family.
Called the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., this regiment of mountain Unionists, which included sixteen formerly enslaved Black men, was the point of the spear that Sherman drove through the heart of the Confederacy. The famed general hailed their skills and courage. So why don’t we know anything about them?
Silent Cavalry is part epic American history, part family saga, and part scholarly detective story. Drawing on the lore of his native Alabama and investigative skills honed by six decades in journalism, Raines brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade southerners—a key component of the Lost Cause effort to restore glory to white southerners after the war, even at the cost of the truth.
In this important new contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and its legacy, Raines tells the thrilling tale of the formation of the First Alabama while exposing the tangled web of how its wartime accomplishments were silenced, implicating everyone from a former Confederate general to a gaggle of Lost Cause historians in the Ivy League and a sanctimonious former keeper of the Alabama state archives. By reversing the erasure of the First Alabama, Silent Cavalry is a testament to the immense power of historians to destroy as well as to redeem.
Alabamians FOR The Union
‘Silent Cavalry’: Not all Southerners wanted the Confederacy to win
Howell Raines calls it the most amazingly counterintuitive fact in all of Civil War history: “White volunteers from the Alabama hills helped Sherman burn Atlanta.”
A mounted regiment of nearly 3,000 subsistence farmers from the state’s hard-scrabble hill country not only joined the Union side in the battle of Atlanta, they were “the point of the spear” in Sherman’s relentless march through Georgia to the sea.
Source: The Atlanta Journal:
Way Back When
Here I am "interviewing" Dwayne, the parking lot attendant who kept our cars from being ticketed, among other helpful actions.
The photo was taken in front of WERC Radio's location on 2nd Avenue North.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Union Guards Confederates
An old "Union Street" street sign "stands guard" over confederate graves in Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery. It was used to mark the edge of the cemetery roads after modern street signs were installed.
Sunday, February 11, 2024
The Moon Tree & I.
I moved from Manhattan in NYC to Birmingham in 1976.
That's the same year the "Moon Tree" was planted at the Alabama Capital building.
It's a loblolly pine that is a good 80' tall now.
I'm more or less the same height 😎.
Read More about it HERE.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Monday, January 8, 2024
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Montgomery's Moon Tree
Immediately left of statue. |
Today is a VERY cold day---not the best day to visit....but when you have a chance, take the kids and introduce them to the Moon-Tree on the Alabama Capitol grounds.
HERE is a list of where the moon trees were planted, including five in Alabama.
Note that another Loblolly Pine Moon Tree, like Alabama's, was planted on the White House grounds in 1977.
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Monday, November 13, 2023
Delaying Winter/Extending Fall
Winter is short, here in the South, but I still don't like
the
cold.
So here's a temporary
visual
Fall extension.
😎
Monday, November 6, 2023
Capitol/Davis Inauguration
Monday, September 4, 2023
Saturday, August 12, 2023
F-35 Training
Alabama Air National Guard pilots may have some intense training come up in a few months when the F35's arrive:
"After some training, pilots come out looking like they are 100 years old," another test pilot said.
Source: HERE.
Star Marks Spot Where confederate president Jefferson Davis Was Sworn-in.
Did The Daughters of The Confederacy Choose The Wrong star?
I think they intended to use the seven pointed star, no?
One way or the other, the star marker sits between the center columns at the front of the Alabama Capitol building, though there are reports Davis actually stood on a wooden platform built for that purpose over the stairs.
Alabama's Coat of Arms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Alabama
So where is the reference to the Native American Tribes that were here LONG before the other countries that are given some Coat of Arms real estate?
Monday, July 24, 2023
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Ghost Boys
Some boys peer through the glass doors of the Alabama Archives building as those doors reflect the 1852 capitol dome across the street.
Saturday, June 17, 2023
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Monday, June 5, 2023
A Selma Photo Day
I spent a while in Selma today, and here are some of the photos I made:
This bears the name of a New Orleans metal casting company. It is attached to a building on Broad street in Selma. You can see the building HERE. (Thanks to George McDonald for pointing out to me that the Broad Street building is ONLY a facade. There's just an empty lot behind it! I HOPE someone will save these "Bennett & Lurges" markers when, and if, that facade is dismantled!)
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Jefferson Davis Statue
The statue of confederate president Jefferson Davis outside the Alabama Capitol Building in which the confederacy was founded. Davis was sworn in on the front steps of the building in 1861. The confederate capital was moved to Richmond three months later.
The names of the states that seceded from the United States are engraved in the base of the statue.
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Birds Reflected
Birds aloft, reflected in the water, taken from a bridge in Downtown Wetumpka, Alabama.
Monday, May 1, 2023
Montgomery Photo Festival 2023
The juror has included a photo of mine for this year's Montgomery Photo Festival! See it, and the other images that made it in, at my photo site HERE.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Parking Be Damned!
Am I the only one in Montgomery who hates the Downtown parking meters that require you to use a credit card?
There are plenty of people who are NOT going to download an "app" just to be able to park!
Some of them include a warning NOT to use coins, even though there is a coin slot in the damned things. And if you don't have a smart phone, they give you a phone number to call! What if you don't have a cell phone?
Where are the senior citizen groups protesting?
About Me
- Tim Lennox
- Montgomery, Alabama, United States
- I was born in The Bronx, but have lived in Alabama since 1976. I semi-retired on April 30th 2019, the 50th Anniversary of my first (radio) broadcast. I have since started a Part-Time job as a docent in The Alabama Capitol Building.