The next installment of Read Alabama: The Next Chapter will be Thursday, featuring Wade Kwon of the blog, Wade on Birmingham.
The program will begin at 12:15 p.m. with an opening reception at noon in Mathews Lecture Hall in Wade Math & Science Building on the Jasper campus of Bevill State Community College. The presentation will be streamed on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/events/1395978077815111/).
The program is a partnership between Bevill State Community College, Walker College Foundation, Alabama Power Company, The Chamber of Commerce of Walker County, and the Walker County Arts Alliance.
About Wade Kwon
Writer and editor-at-large, humble blogger, Birminghamian through and through, Wade Kwon is all these things and less. After nearly a decade at the Birmingham Post-Herald and two-and-a-half years at Southern Living, he’s hard at work as a citizen journalist. His blogs include Wade on Birmingham and WadeKwon.com.
In the midst of Birmingham’s renaissance, it’s fun to consider the future. Where is this Alabama city headed? Are we on the right track? How did we turn the corner of progress, and how do we keep it going?
These important questions deserved answers. We went out and found all of them. Well, we found some smart people willing to provide their answers. We rounded up our favorite writers, bloggers, photographers, colleagues and standouts from across Birmingham to complete this sentence: “The future of Birmingham is _____.”
This is our way to celebrate a special milestone, the 10th anniversary of the blog Wade on Birmingham. And what a weird way to mark it, with a 26-part blog series and a book.
The book contains essays by Johnathan F. Austin, Jen Barnett, Charles Buchanan, Angie Cleland, Caperton Gillett, Bertha Hidalgo, Hugh Hunter, Joey Kennedy, Jackie Lo, Kenn McCracken, Chris Mitchell, Teresa Zúñiga Odom, Ike Pigott, Candie A. Price, Christine Prichard, Carrie Rollwagen, Karl Seitz, Jess Simpson, James Spann, Rod Walker and Wade Kwon.
