Since venturing into broadcasting Noble has hosted over 400 half-hour shows featuring interviews with literary stars such as Toni Morrison, William Styron, Ray Bradbury, and Rita Dove. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Bookmark with Don Noble series airing on Alabama Public Television, APT will present a collection of 15 classic episodes beginning March 31st. The series airs Sundays at 11:00 a.m.SHOW ME NOW
Doors that open and close mysteriously. Lights that glow where there is no electric power. The sound of footsteps on a staircase when no one is there. All of these things can be experienced in Selma, Alabama. Is this city haunted? The city is filled with antebellum houses but some people have experienced things that cannot be explained by the settling of old structures.SHOW ME NOW
In the summer of 1819, 44 men gathered inside the cabinet maker’s shop in Huntsville to write Alabama’s first constitution–the document that would create the laws necessary to enable this new territory to become a state. The Northwest Ordinance declared that a territory could become a state when its population grew to 60,000. The 1818 census revealed Alabama had reached that mark.SHOW ME NOW
Eric Miller and his son, Steve, are continuing a tradition begun in 1865 by Abraham Miller, a Pennsylvania man who moved to Alabama at the close of the Civil War. The Millers dig clay from a pit in Perry County, mill it, turn it, and fire it into pitchers, churns, piggy banks and other items in Brent, Alabama, carrying on the tradition for five generations.SHOW ME NOW
