Community Event

If you missed the first cemetery mapping, here is your chance to participate! The historical archeologist, Dr. Alexandra Jones, is returning for a second training session and gravesite mapping event at Plateau Cemetery. Participants will meet at First Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, 664 Shelby St., on Saturday morning at 10 am, December 2. Please bring ... Read more

Join us to continue mapping gravesites at the historic Africatown cemetery in Plateau. Several Open Table members have been trained by archeologist Dr. Alexandra Jones to participate in the project. If you have not attended one of the recent trainings but would like to learn more about it, you are welcome to shadow one of ... Read more

The public is cordially invited to attend a special presentation during the annual Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival for Africatown Descendants on Wednesday, January 31st, at the Historic Avenue Cultural Center. British historian Dr. Durkin -- who holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham and specializes in transatlantic slavery and African ... Read more

The Clotilda Descendants are pleased to announce Mary N. Elliott as the 2024 Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival's keynote speaker. As a museum specialist and curator of American slavery with the Smithsonian Institute, Ms. Elliott helped to research, conceptualize, and design the “Slavery and Freedom” inaugural exhibition for Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History ... Read more

Alabama votes in primary elections on Tuesday, March 5 from 7 am to 7 pm. Our Mobile County congressional districts have changed, and some polling places may have also changed. Those living in Mobile, Prichard, Chickasaw, and Citronelle are now in District 2. Those living in south Mobile County, Saraland, and Satsuma remain in District ... Read more

Mark your calendars for the next Sierra Club presentation---Pat O'Neil, long-time Deputy Director of Geological Survey of Alabama and a compelling speaker will draw from a background of investigation into the state's ecological/geological history to share some perspectives on Alabama's Riverine Fishes. You don't want to miss this one!!!

You are invited to Mobile Bay Sierra Club’s presentation by Glen Coffee on the topic of “Historic Mining of Alabama’s Coastal Sands by Maintenance of the Mobile Harbor Ship Channel." Glen’s talk will summarize how historic dredging and disposal practices to maintain and enlarge the Mobile Harbor Outer Bar Channel into the Gulf of Mexico has resulted ... Read more

Come out and see Gulf Coast Creation Care at Earth Day Mobile Bay brought to you by Sierra Club from 10 am to 4 pm. Saturday, April 20 Fairhope Pier Park We will also be present at Mobile Japanese Garden's Earth Day celebration and electric vehicle showcase brought to you by Love Your Community and ... Read more

Gulf Coast Creation Care member Mary Sheffield invites us to a special Earth Day concert, "For the Beauty of the Earth." The concert will be performed twice and admission is free. The first performance is at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Daphne at 3 pm on Sunday, April 21st. 28788 N Main St, Daphne, AL ... Read more

Gulf Coast Creation Care member Mary Sheffield invites us to a special Earth Day concert, “For the Beauty of the Earth.” The concert will be performed twice and admission is free. The first performance is at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Daphne at 3 pm on Sunday, April 21st. 28788 N Main St, Daphne, AL ... Read more