By Loretta Gillespie (The following story is Part 2 of “The Life and Times of William Bradford Huie, Hartselle’s Famous Native Son. It is told by Randy Sparkman, Hartselle historian. The first part of the story was published in the Summer edition of Hartselle Area Magazine.) In 1927, William Bradford Huie, graduated from Morgan County...
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The Tanner family name has always been synonymous with the growth of new businesses in Hartselle. It all started when Orville W. Tanner returned home from WWII and opened a barbershop in downtown Hartselle, where the Tattoo Parlor is located today. Tanner later moved the barbershop to Tanner Heights Plaza Shopping Center when it...
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He walked up and knocked on the door of the Morgan County Jail. Most guys were trying to get out – William Cooper McClanahan was trying his best to get in. The young GI had served in the Pacific in WWII on the USS Mercy; a hospital ship that plied the waters of a...
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Sometimes the course of a life is changed in an instant, a point of time referenced by something so wonderful or so horrendous that we mark everything as either coming before or after the event. For Harold and Debbie Fanning that moment came as they drove along the once familiar streets of their hometown, Ryland, Alabama. This wasn’t a...
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