Dauphin Island Diaries
A long-form history podcast focused on the people, places, and stories that shaped Dauphin Island and the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Dauphin Island Diaries
Latest Episodes
DID Bonus INTERVIEWSDAY Material (7) - Interview with Bella Myers (Topics of Discussion: The Pelican Girls, Their Role as the Mothers of Mobile, and the Story of their Arrival in the Colony of French Louisiana)
It’s INTERVIEWSDAY!This week on INTERVIEWSDAY (Interview Tuesday), we visit with Bella Myers, a Mobile-area historian and tour guide with Bienville Bites Food Tour, for an extended conversation about the remarkable w...
DID Ep 10 - Pelican on the Bay - The Story of the Pelican Girls
In 1704, twenty-three young Frenchwomen crossed the Atlantic aboard the Pelican in search of husbands—and a future—in the struggling colony of French Louisiana.They had been promised opportunity in a land described to them as al...
DID Bonus INTERVIEWSDAY Content (6) - Interview with Mendel Graeber (Topics of Discussion: The Dauphin Island Sea Lab, The Alabama Aquarium, and Their History, Roles, and Significance in South Alabama)
It’s INTERVIEWSDAY!This week on INTERVIEWSDAY (Interview Tuesday), we visit with Mendel Graeber, director of the Alabama Aquarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.This is not a traditional sit-down interview. Men...
DID Ep 9 - Bay Studies: The Dauphin Island Sea Lab and the Alabama Aquarium
Dauphin Island may appear permanent, but the island—and the waters surrounding it—has always been changing.Alabama’s marine-science program began in a small building raised above the marshes of Heron Bay. It later moved aboard a converte...
DID Bonus INTERVIEWSDAY Material (4) - Interview with Connie Roan
It's INTERVIEWSDAY!This week on INTERVIEWSDAY (Interview Tuesday), we visit with Connie Roan, a longtime educator who spent the final years of her remarkable 44-year teaching career at Dauphin Island's historic L...
