Category: Past Speakers

Cartledge Weeden Blackwell, III – “Cart”
Cartledge Weeden Blackwell, III, is the curator of the Mobile Carnival Museum Blackwell was born in Selma, Alabama. He obtained undergraduate degrees in art history and historic preservation from the College of Charleston He received his MA in Architectural History from the University’s School of Architecture in 2008. His scholarly focus is the art and architecture of the 19th Century and 20th Century America, particularly that of the Southeast. Cart is currently working on two three books. One focuses on Alabama artist-designer Clara Weaver Parrish. A second is on the portraiture in Alabama, while a third, one on architect George B. Rogers, is the beginning stages of development. His writings have appeared in Alabama, Alabama Heritage, ARRIS, Mobile Bay Monthly, Access, and other publications. In addition to his research and writings, Cart also serves as the Alabama representative to the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, a board member of the Cahaba Foundation, a trustee of Wilmer Hall, and a board member of the Friends of the Alabama Department of Archives & History. From 2009 to 2017, Cart worked for the City of Mobile as part of the Mobile Historic Development Commission. From 2015 forward, he served as acting and then deputy director of the MHDC. H

DAVID BAGWELL
David Bagwell was President of this Club a quarter century ago in 1992-93, and was later an assistant district governor. He is now a member of the Point Clear Club.
David graduated from Vanderbilt where he and Win Hallett were fellow SAEs but David got elected president of the chapter and Win didn’t. After Vanderbilt David traveled around the world for a year on a Corning Traveling Fellowship, studying international business in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
Immediately after his return he went to Army boot camp at Ft. Polk, Louisiana, in July and August, where the Army taught him everything he needed to know to be a lawyer: how to type and how to bayonet people. Thus properly prepared, he graduated second in his law class at Alabama, behind some guy who became a tax lawyer in Miami and likely got rich.
David was a lawyer and a judge for 43 years in Mobile and Fairhope, in two big firms, and one medium firm, and finally alone at the end, which was the only time he liked all of his partners. He did mostly antitrust and admiralty work, and complicated civil cases. He wrote about 25 boring technical legal articles, and a fair number of more interesting articles on local history. He was active in his church and in the community.
David has lived for a quarter century on Mobile Bay at Point Clear, from which he loves to fish and to hunt birds of various sizes. He and his wife Julie have three grown children — their daughter Maggie Lacey is editor of Mobile Bay Magazine — and eight grandchildren.

Lynn Oldshue grew up on a catfish farm in Yazoo City, MS. After graduating from Mississippi State University, her first job was working at the Saenger Theatre in downtown Mobile. She is married with two boys and lives on a farm in Fairhope. She started The Southern Rambler magazine five years ago to tell the stories of artists and musicians on the Gulf Coast. This year The Southern Rambler won the Nappie for Best Blog/Website from Lagniappe. Oldshue has written features on editorial cartoonist J.D. Crowe, columnist John Archibald, artists Tut Riddick and Bruce Larsen as well as musicians Emmylou Harris, St. Paul and the Broken Bones and The Revivalists.
An interview with photographer Vincent Lawson about his pictures of the homeless in Mobile, and a story about the city’s bus riders, changed her direction. She started the vignette series Our Southern Souls after telling the stories of people who take the bus for hours every day to get to minimum wage jobs, school, medical appointments and grocery shopping. Almost 850 stories over two years include people who survive cancer, flee from war and persecution, take care of spouses with Alzheimer’s, wait for acceptance letters into graduate schools and serve hot dogs to the homeless. She has interviewed flood victims in Louisiana, parents grieving of the death of a child, and nomads living in caves in Morocco. This summer, her stories and pictures from Havana, Cuba hung on the walls of the Alabama Contemporary Art Center in their “Sister Shores” exhibit.
She also started the series Faces of Mobile, featuring street photography in the downtown area illustrating the beauty and diversity of the city, one image at a time. She believes that stories still matter, show our humanity and help us understand how much we have in common

Reeivice L. Girtman of the Liberty Learning Foundation
Mr. Girtman is a native of Dothan and received his bachelors and master’s degrees at Troy State University where he played football between 1992 and 1996. In 1996 the team was named Southland Conference Champion.
He and his wife and 3 children live in Eufaula where he has served the last 15 years in the Eufaula City Schools as a teacher, coach, assistant principal and now school principal.
Mr. Girtman is a director for the Eufaula/Barbour County Chamber of Commerce as well as Executive Vice President of Business Development for the Liberty Learning Foundation, an organization seeking to help mold todays K-12 students into tomorrow’s leaders.

Daryn Glassbrook, Ph.D.
Dr. Glassbrook has been the Executive Director of the Mobile Medical Museum since February 2016. He was previously Director of Development at the Centre for the Living Arts (now Alabama Contemporary Art Center), and a senior development officer at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, Massachusetts) and the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, Nevada). He has over 10 years of experience in museum administration and fundraising.
Daryn Glassbrook
Executive Director
Mobile Medical Museum
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