Mobile’s Brush With Destruction

𝙉𝙤 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮:

It’s amazing who you can run into while taking a stroll in a Fairhope park. My interest in looking for an alligator brings me to North Beach park where a woman walks along the edge of the water, looking for the gator, too. We never see the gator but a conversation starts. My Sunday stroll brings me face to face with Lila Marie Pennington Ryals, the 93-year-old Fairhope resident and author of the book “What Would Mamma Do?” I can’t help but ask questions about her book, and ask if she would be a test subject for a new set of microphones I’m trying out and if she’ll let me stage a video ambush. She says sure, and off we go, with Lila talking about her involvement in an incident that could have changed world history just across Mobile Bay less than a century ago. She also shares what she has done to live to 93. History is amazing, and we have people like Lila to thank for making it a vivid part of our knowledge about our world. Copies of her book are available on Amazon…