Alabama Shakes drummer Steven William Johnson arrested on child abuse charges | Music
[ad_1] Steven William Johnson, the drummer with Grammy-winning rock band Alabama Shakes, has been arrested on charges of child abuse. The charges include “wilful torture, wilful abuse, and cruelly beating or otherwise wilfully maltreating a child under the age of 18”. The Limestone county sheriff’s office in Limestone County, Alabama, confirmed to Rolling Stone that […]
Alabama Man Launches Career As Medical Hemp Farmer After Mother’s Cancer Battle
[ad_1] As a child, Prattville native Jeffrey Lee remembers playing in cotton fields. These days, his own son and daughter run in a much different crop. “I’ve sat out there and watched my kids playing in all this hemp growing 10 or 11 foot high,” Lee said. Life as a full-time medicinal hemp farmer in […]
‘The equals of Klee and Matisse’ – the Alabama quilt-makers who shook America | Art
[ad_1] Loretta Pettway Bennett remembers well the moment everything changed for her tight-knit, rural community. The 20th century was drawing to a close. She was in her late 30s, living with her husband and sons on the site of an old cotton plantation on a deep bend in the Alabama River. Any spare time she […]
