"Described by José Garcia Villa as America's 'greatest short story writer, ' by Alistair Cooke as the 'the unrecognized genius of our time, ' and by his biographer as 'one of the most remarkable, talented, and shamefully neglected writers that America has pro- duced, ' William M…
What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by …