Tuxedo Junctions and other famous places - al.com

Read this Wayne Flynt piece on the contributions of Alabamians to jazz and blues music


Tuxedo Junction and other famous places - al.com

Nov 21, 6:46 AM

By Wayne Flynt | Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Auburn University


When I began teaching a course in Alabama history at Auburn University, I had no idea that I stood in the gigantic shadow of Newman White and Ruby Pickens Tartt. Although White was a North Carolina native with a Harvard University doctorate, his first teaching job in 1915 was at Auburn......