Radio Feature | Troy University Public Radio | “Pebble Hill: A Home For the Arts In Auburn”

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As part of our new series “Wall Text: Conversations about Art & Architecture” SPM’s Kyle Gassiott went on a radio tour of Pebble Hill a historic home in Auburn that houses the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Auburn University.  The audio part of our tour aired on Troy Public Radio’s Community Focus on July 9, 2012. Pebble Hill is over 150 years old and has recently been studied by a number of historians and archaeologists.  The Center’s director Jay Lamar and Southern Public Media’s own architectural & preservation consultant Lyn Causey guided Kyle through the house for [...] Read more »

Radio Feature | Troy Public Radio | The Golden Cage — Revisiting POW Camp Opelika with Col. Albert Killian

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Camp Opelika, 1942

Today in honor of Memorial Day we’re bringing you a special feature on Camp Opelika one of Alabama’s 24 POW camps built in 1942.  In the years between 1942-45 Camp Opelika was home to some 3,000 German POWs, many of whom were captured in North Africa and brought to Alabama after landing in Boston.  Life in the Alabama POW camps didn’t resemble the normal prison experience.   In fact, one of the German POWs called it a “golden cage.”  Today we bring you a tour of Camp Opelika with Colonel Albert Killian who has written a book detailing its history [...] Read more »

Podcast | I Am Alabama | Brenda Ortiz

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Brenda Ortiz is an Assistant Professor in the College of Agriculture at Auburn University and native of Columbia. She spoke with the “I Am Alabama” project in January of 2012 her childhood love of science textbooks, her interactions with communities of farmers in Alabama, and her move to the United States. Read more »