Once
Upon a Time: Stories That Shaped Our Lives
Brown Bag Lecture Series -
Fall 2010
B.B. Comer Library
11:00 Refreshments
12:00 Noon Program
Harry I Brown Auditorium
Sponsored by SouthFirst Bank
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Chris Phillips
“Jim Nabors: Living the Impossible Dream”

Chris Phillips is shown presenting
Brown Bag Program
"Jim Nabors: Living the Impossible Dream."
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Henry Sledge
“My Father, Eugene Bondurant Sledge, and the War in the Pacific”

Henry Sledge is shown at Comer Library with picture of
his father,
Dr. Eugene Sledge to whom he paid tribute with a
PowerPoint/lecture
presentation, "My Father,
Eugene Bondurant Sledge,
and the War in the Pacific.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Linda Derry
“Old Cahawba: The Rise, Decline and Renewal
of Alabama’s ‘First’ State Capital”

Linda Derry, site director for Old Cahawba,
is shown presenting her program "Old Cahawba:
The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Alabama's
'First' State Capital."
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Donna Cox Baker
“Alabama Fever: The Rush to Statehood”

Library Director, Shirley Spears, visits with Donna Cox
Baker
before her brown bag presentation
"Alabama Fever: the
Rush to Statehood."
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Julie Hedgepeth Williams
“Orville & Wilbur in Montgomery:
The World’s First Flight School”

Comer Library's brown bag lecture audience shown
enthralled
with Julie Williams' story of the world's first
flight school
in Montgomery, Alabama.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Dolores Hydock
“Batter Up: Stories From Outside the
Strike Zone”

Dolores
Hydock presents her program "Batter Up"
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Frances Robb
“The Great Depression in Alabama Photographs”

Dr. Ted Spears is shown introducing Frances Robb.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Wayne Flynt
“The Revolt of the ‘Lint Heads’: How Alabama Textile Workers Carved
Out Their Own World”
Past Programs:
Potpourri -Spring 2001
Icons of the 20th Century - Fall
2002
Highlights for Seniors - Fall 2003
Sweet Home Alabama - Fall
2006
Alabama Past and Present - Winter Spring 2006
Out of Our Past - Fall 2007
The Way We Were - Winter 2007
New Perspectives - Looking at 20th - Century
Alabama Art 2007
Times Gone By - Winter 2008
Operation History
Winter/Spring 2009
Sylacauga Marble Festival 2009
It
Seems Like Only Yesterday Fall 2009
Telling
Our Stories Winter 2010