 Gaillard’s most recent published work, In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast, offers a touching and heroic portrait of Alabama’s two most distinctive Gulf Coast communities and the families who have survived hurricanes and economic hardships to continue to earn modest livings from the sea.
Gaillard spent 28 years as a writer and editor at the Charlotte Observer before returning to his native Mobile, where he is currently writer in residence in English and history at the University of South Alabama. He has authored more than 20 books, including Cradle of Freedom, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award; The Dream Long Deferred, winner of the Gustavus Myers Award; and If I Were a Carpenter, the first independent, book-length study of Habitat for Humanity. His most recent book, Alabama’s Civil Rights Sites, is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press.
The lecture is part of the Draughon Seminars in State and Local History, sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. Each year the lecture series showcases new scholarship in state and local history. The program is funded by the W. Kelly Mosley Endowment in honor of Dr. Ralph B. Draughon, president of Auburn University from 1947 to 1965. Draughon was a historian with a deep commitment to teaching and promoting state history.
The lecture is sponsored locally by the Humanities Division of Wallace Community College, and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Dr. Linda York at 334.556.2446 or by e-mail at lyork@wallace.edu.
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