Honoring Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird author receives Alabama Humanities Award

That's terrific. One wonders how she didn't get the first Alabama Humanities Award, though. Or at least one before this, the thirteenth. There were twelve Alabamians more deserving than Harper Lee? I find that unlikely. For instance, last year they gave it to the mythically annoying -- and largely unknown outside the region -- Kathryn Tucker Windham.