ODDS & ENDS

Dancin’ in September

text by AMELIA ROSE ZIMLICH

MUSCADINES

Muscadines are one of the only types of grape that can grow in the hot, humid climate of the Mobile Bay area. Scuppernongs, a variety of the muscadine grape, were the first grapes cultivated in the United States.

$6,000,000

PRICE PAID FOR THE GUITAR OF NIRVANA FRONTMAN KURT COBAIN AT AN AUCTION IN 2020

Our very own Mobtown Music can get you strumminí for $100≠ $21,000.

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The number of sidehall homes still remaining in Mobile. Two hundred years ago the number was more than 10 times that.

Architectural historian Cart Blackwell tells us more on page 74.

[SEPTEMBER] NATIONAL HAPPY CAT

MONTH

Cats will have you know that, in their world, this is every month.

INSPIRED BY A POET

(AND YOU DIDNíT KNOW IT)

The Alabama state motto, “Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere,” (translated as “we dare defend our rights”) was inspired by an 18th-century poem called ‘What Constitutes a State?’ by William Jones. The stanza from which the state motto originated goes ‘men who their duties know. But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.’

Poetry still impacts Alabamians daily, including the youth in Mobile. Read more on page 42.

“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”

- American poet Helen Hunt Jackson

SING IT!

ìSeptemberî appears in the title of more pop and classic songs than any other month.

Fill in the blank: ìDo you remember/ the 21st night of _____________?î Itís a tough one!