Brown Bag Fall 2015 “Looking Forward to the Past”

Wednesday, September 16—Elnora Spencer “Best of the ‘Jazzy Blues’ and More”  Award –winning singer, Elnora Spencer, will open the Comer Library’s SouthFirst Bank Lecture Series accompanied by piano, bass and drums. Elnora calls her style the ‘jazzy blues’ and her...

Brown Bag Winter 2015 “Turn Back Time”

Wednesday, January 14, 2015—Buddy Simpkins and Friends “Best of Jazz and More”  Buddy, who will play the drums, will be joined by bassist, Jeff Drew, and Bo Berry—the talented trumpeter from Birmingham who played with “Jam Sessions on the Avenue” from 1947 to 1963....

Brown Bag Lecture Series Fall 2014 “Lest We Forget”

Chris Phillips:Bad Boys: Good Songs: Up and Down Lives and Crowd Anointed Songs”  The iconic “bad boys” of country, pop, and rock music sing about loving the wrong women, bucking the system, fighting for their country, adoring their families, and representing the...

The Way It Used To Be Brown Bag Lecture Series Winter 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Steven P. Brown“John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court: The Circuit Riding Judge” Steven Brown’s program will portray native Kentuckian, John McKinley—a lawyer and land speculator who came to Alabama in 1819—as a leader in the...

Old Times Are Not Fogotten Brown Bag Fall Series 2013

Wednesday, September 18, 2013Martin T. (Marty) Olliff“The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama During World War I” The United States participated militarily in World War I (1914-1918) for only nineteen months—hardly enough time to effect the long lasting changes...