Audio: Another New Podcast: The Historical Novel

This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added another new podcast to our "Multimedia" page. (This podcast is also available via This Goodly Land at iTunes U.)

Maiben Beard from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities interviews Dr. Bert Hitchcock, Professor emeritus of the Auburn University Department of English about the historical novel.

Supplemental materials for this program are available at This Goodly Land's Web site and include an audio transcript, a reading list, discussion questions, and lesson plans.

Stream "The Historical Novel" Audio.

To download, right-click on the link(s) above and choose "Save Link As ..." or "Save Target As ...")

Learn more about the subjects of This Goodly Land's audio podcasts from our supplemental materials.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Audio: New Podcasts from This Goodly Land

This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added three new podcasts to our "Multimedia" page. (These podcasts are also available via This Goodly Land at iTunes U.)

In "Old Southwest Humor," Maiben Beard from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities interviews Dr. Benjamin B. Williams, Professor emeritus of the Auburn University Montgomery Department of English about frontier humor from the 1830s to the 1860s.

In another audio, Dr. Dwayne Cox of the Auburn University Libraries reads an example of Old Southwest humor: an excerpt from Joseph Glover Baldwin's book The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi.

Finally, we have prepared an audio version of Dr. John C. Hall's Draughon Seminar on William Bartram and his travels in the South. This audio has been split into three parts to make downloading easier.

Supplemental materials for these programs are available at This Goodly Land's Web site and include audio transcripts, reading lists, discussion questions, and lesson plans.

Stream "Old Southwest Humor" Audio.

Stream "Flush Times" Audio.

Stream "Bartram's Travels" Audio, Part 1.
Stream "Bartram's Travels" Audio, Part 2.
Stream "Bartram's Travels" Audio, Part 3.

(To download, right-click on the link(s) above and choose "Save Link As ..." or "Save Target As ...")

Learn more about the subjects of This Goodly Land's audio podcasts from our supplemental materials.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Audio: Mary Ward Brown on Alabama Arts Radio

The April 7 broadcast of the Alabama Arts Radio Series features Alabama author Mary Ward Brown. The program was recorded at the Lunch at the Library program of the Selma-Dallas County Public Library. Ms. Brown read from her new memoir, Fanning the Spark, and was interviewed by Pam Kingsbury of the University of North Alabama.

Listen to Mary Ward Brown on Alabama Arts Radio program.To stream, left-click on either "High MP3" or "Low 56K." To download, right-click and choose "Save Link As ..." or "Save Target As ..."

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Video: Maiben Beard on Talk with Tonya

The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities' own Maiben Beard was interviewed by WSFA 12 News's Tonya Terry on Talk with Tonya this past Monday (April 6) about the upcoming Alabama Book Festival (Saturday April 18, 9-5, Old Alabama Town, Montgomery).

Watch WSFA's Talk with Tonya. Click on the icon (left-hand side) for the April 6 episode. Maiben's interview appears about 24 minutes into the program.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Video: ArchiTreats at ADAH

The Alabama Department of Archives and History has made videos of its "ArchiTreats: Food for Thought" lectures available online. This series features leading experts speaking on topics in Alabama history. ArchiTreats is sponsored by the Friends of the Alabama Archives and the Alabama Humanities Foundation.

Watch videos from ArchiTreats: Food for Thought online.

If you live or work in or near Montgomery, you can attend ArchiTreats in person. Lectures are held at the Archives (624 Washington Avenue) at noon on the third Thursday of the month. Bring a sack lunch; coffee and tea are provided free of charge. ArchiTreats is free and open to the public.

See the 2009 ArchiTreats schedule (PDF format).

Directions to the Archives and parking information (html format).

Directions to the Archives and parking information (PDF format).

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape