The Majesty of Mobile

Informationen zum Autor Born in New Orleans, Jim Fraiser grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi, and attended Ole Miss as an undergraduate and for law school. He is the director of legal services for the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians, representing six thousand tribal members in all their legal matters. He has served as a Hinds County assistant district attorney and as Mississippi special assistant attorney general. In addition to his books published by Pelican, he has also published a novel and four works of nonfiction. He has published eight law-journal articles featured in national publications and two original and produced plays, The Judas Principle and Cosmos by Copernicus. Four of his dramatic adaptations of books have been produced: Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Plato's Symposium, and Alex Haleyí's Autobiography of Malcolm X. Fraiser also teaches college courses, including paralegal studies, for three of Mississippi's state universities, as well as acting and writing classes for Millsaps College's Adult Enrichment Program. He is a freelance journalist/photographer, writing regular columns, news stories, and book reviews for the Emmerich newspapers, the Clarion-Ledger, and numerous other papers, journals, and magazines throughout the Deep South. As though his roles as lawyer and writer are not enough, Jim Fraiser is also a professional actor and has directed and/or performed in many plays in regional professional theater. He has been featured in roles in several motion pictures, including Blind Vengeance, Good Ole Boy, Ode to Billie Joe, Nightmare in Badham County, and Mississippi Burning. He was the veterinarian, Wiley Sims in the popular 2000 film My Dog Skip. He and his wife, Carole, live in Jackson, Mississippi, and have two daughters, Lucy and Mary Adelyn. Klappentext Mobile, dotted with quaint Gulf Coast cottages, grand public structures, and elegant mansions, is the only seaport city in Alabama. Traces of the city's rich history can be found in its architecture. Whether featuring full-length French doors, which were popular in the 1850s, or gabled dormers with wide turrets from the 1890s, each of the included sixty-six buildings has become a significant part of Mobile's aesthetic beauty. Radiant images of Southern architecture from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries accompany historical anecdotes and interesting tidbits. Many of the structures profiled are associated with famous Confederate characters as well as mystic societies, the National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Alabama, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Historic Mobile Preservation Society. From Italianate and Greek Revival to Carpenter Gothic and Romanesque, the city's diverse architectural influences make the perfect coffee-table book. Jim Fraiser is the author of fourteen books about the history, architecture, and culture of the Deep South, including The Majesty of the Mississippi Delta, The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast, Mississippi River Country Tales: A Celebration of 500 Years of Deep South History, and Vanished Mississippi Gulf Coast, all published by Pelican. He is a federal administrative law judge, adjunct law professor, and regular contributing book reviewer to numerous Deep South magazines and newspapers. He resides in Madison, Mississippi. Pat Caldwell, a partner in the law firm Riley, Caldwell, Cork & Alvis, P.A., has served as general counsel of BancorpSouth, Inc., BancorpSouth Bank, and its respective subsidiaries. He is a Taylor Medalist and past president of the Lee County Young Lawyers Association and was a Mid-South Super Lawyer for 2010 and 2011. He lives in Tupelo, Mississippi. An expert on Mobile history, John Sledge is an architectural historian for the Mobile Historic Development Commission. A past president of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, he founded Church ...

Product details

• Authors: Jim Fraiser, Jim/ Caldwell Fraiser, Jim Frasier
• Assisted by: Pat Caldwell (Photographs)
• Publisher: Pelican publishing co inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2012
• EAN: 9781455614912
• ISBN: 978-1-4556-1491-2
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Majesty
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV