June 29-August 21, Noon

Beat the heat this summer with Old Alabama Town’s "History at High Noon” lecture series. Bring your own brown bag lunch and enjoy one-hour talks presented by local historians and scholars. The first half of the series is presented by Auburn University's Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities and focuses on historic Alabamians, while the second half has been organized by historian Mary Ann Neeley and aims to take participants on a vicarious vacation. Each lecture begins at noon in Old Alabama Town's Loeb Reception Center and admission is free.  Schedule: June 29, “American Naturalist & Author William Bartram,” by Kathryn Braund; July 6, “Fones McCarthy and the McCarthy Gin,” by Angela Lakwete; July 13, “Philip Henry Gosse: English Naturalist-Artist in Alabama," by Gary Mullen; August 7, “The World According to Mark Twain,” by Alan Gribben; August 14, “Walking the Appalachian Trail,” by McDowell Crook; August 21, “The Wright Brothers at Maxwell,” by George Cully.