2022: The Year in Pictures, Part II
I could only fit so many images per post, so here are a few more moments from 2022…
Lots of great music, as always. Above, Lonnie McKelvey performed at Canyon Fest at the JSU Little River Canyon Center. Below that, Matty Croxton sings soulfully impersonating Teddy Gentry of Alabama at the latest Boys in the Band tribute show at the DeKalb Theatre last month.
My camera captured the crowds at these live shows, grooving to the music at the Boom Days Festival and that forementioned Boys in the Band show.
I also got a glimpse of music from way back as Sacred Harp singers performed at a restored country schoolhouse.
Above, actor Sandra Ellis Lafferty pressed her hands into concete to make an impression of them for the eventual sidewalk commemoration of her achievements as a star of the stage and screen. Below, the Canyon Center's Pete Conroy posed for my camera at a bluegrass concert during warmer months.
A major story of 2022 was Fort Payne's effort to recruit a Food City grocery store. Large crowds showed up at a city council meeting to express opposition or support for this development. Last week, a judge finally approved it.
2022 was also an election year. Given the political rhetoric about stolen elections, the media took on a greater role in the scrutiny of election machinery and shared with the public the multiple layers of safeguards making fraud virtually impossible to perpetrate.
Speaking of elections, one of my state representatives was elected to become Speaker of the Alabama House. I did a feature story on him in the new issue of DeKalb Living magazine.
Lots of great music, as always. Above, Lonnie McKelvey performed at Canyon Fest at the JSU Little River Canyon Center. Below that, Matty Croxton sings soulfully impersonating Teddy Gentry of Alabama at the latest Boys in the Band tribute show at the DeKalb Theatre last month.
My camera captured the crowds at these live shows, grooving to the music at the Boom Days Festival and that forementioned Boys in the Band show.
I also got a glimpse of music from way back as Sacred Harp singers performed at a restored country schoolhouse.
Above, actor Sandra Ellis Lafferty pressed her hands into concete to make an impression of them for the eventual sidewalk commemoration of her achievements as a star of the stage and screen. Below, the Canyon Center's Pete Conroy posed for my camera at a bluegrass concert during warmer months.
A major story of 2022 was Fort Payne's effort to recruit a Food City grocery store. Large crowds showed up at a city council meeting to express opposition or support for this development. Last week, a judge finally approved it.
2022 was also an election year. Given the political rhetoric about stolen elections, the media took on a greater role in the scrutiny of election machinery and shared with the public the multiple layers of safeguards making fraud virtually impossible to perpetrate.
Speaking of elections, one of my state representatives was elected to become Speaker of the Alabama House. I did a feature story on him in the new issue of DeKalb Living magazine.
One of the biggest stories of the year was the passing of Alabama founder Jeff Cook, a fellow Fort Payne native who forever changed country music. This was a photo I did of him during happier days with his wife Lisa at his castle on Lookout Mountain.
See the stories of the year in this weekend's edition of The Times-Journal.
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