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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw, Exterior | 6 Comments
A forever or two ago, we found a Victorian screen door in our attic, but I never thought too hard about re-installing it. We already had a modern screen door on the back door, and a screen door on the front of the house seemed vaguely strange to me in these modern times.
But then […]
Monday, October 1st, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw, Grumpy Bear, Work Day Club | 27 Comments
Recently, a reporter from the Wall Street Journal contacted me about a post I wrote last year. My post, “Plaster Party,” was about how the Work Day Club of Eutaw helped our across-the-street neighbor Denise tear out the disintegrating plaster in her upstairs bedrooms and hallway.
The reporter told me she was writing a story […]
Monday, August 27th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw | 4 Comments
Last night I found out that in the year of my birth, something else was born - a campy horror movie filmed in none other than Eutaw, Alabama. Known to the locals as “King Cobra,” the movie was latered renamed “Jaws of Satan.”
None of my Eutawan friends have seen the movie, but my […]
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw, Exterior | 7 Comments
One evening last week, Darwin was crouching in the overlong grass of our back yard, trying to replace a part on the dying-one-piece-at-time riding lawnmower he and my dad dubbed Katrina. (The lawnmower - bought new only a few weeks before the hurricane - was found upside down on the wreckage left of my […]
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw, Commentary, Grumpy Bear | 3 Comments
Today’s Tuscaloosa News features a story on a new Eutaw resident. He’s an actor/artist/singer from California who bought a gorgeous house that I adore and that was on the market for a long time. Naturally, we’re all thrilled he bought it, and when we met him at the latest Historical Society banquet, we thought […]
