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Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama
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  • ISBN: 9781634992831

Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama

Author(s): Thomas Kenning
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Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama is a down-and-dirty guided tour through Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, the retired guardians of Alabama’s Gulf Coast.

For nearly 200 years, these hauntingly beautiful Third System forts have stood stubbornly between the Yellowhammer State and a sometimes hostile world beyond. Pairing stunning original photography and vibrant prose, urban explorer Thomas Kenning recounts a blow-by-blow history of Forts Morgan and Gaines.

His sensitive camera work documents the grandeur and decline wrought by the passage of time, as well as the lasting damage sustained during the pitched Battle of Mobile Bay—one of the most iconic battles in U.S. naval history.

Threatened by a rising sea, disintegrating under the weight of centuries, Forts Morgan and Gaines have been named "one of the nation's ten most endangered battle sites" by the American Battlefield Trust.

Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama offers an arresting snapshot of this waning moment in American history—documentary evidence of a rich past slipping inexorably into ruin.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Thomas Kenning is an author, educator, and adventurer. He has written extensively about Washington, DC for his own blogs and on a freelance basis. Mr. Kenning is the creator of the award-winning Openendedsocialstudies.org, a library of free lesson plans and travel writing designed to foster a sense of wonder about the world and our place in it. When he is not travelling to some far-flung corner of the Earth, he resides with his wife and daughter (a DC native!), planning his next improbable adventure and trying to leave the planet a little bit nicer than he found it.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781634992831
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHER: America Through Time
DATE: 1/25/2021
STATE: Alabama
SERIES: America Through Time
IMAGES: 135
PAGES: 96
DIMENSIONS: 6.5 (w) x 9.25 (h)
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