Tag: Sound of Music

Allen Mendenhall: 60 years of music and memory

At Christmastime, we watch “The Sound of Music” because we need to believe that these small rebellions matter, that Maria and the Captain and those seven children made it over the mountains to freedom, that somewhere in the darkness, edelweiss still blooms, small and white and impossibly brave.

Music Lady of Sylacauga Suzy Wade Hammonds dies at 72

Suzy Wade Hammonds of Sylacauga died Monday. She was the musical voice of the town since the 1960s.