Clarke County Historical Museum

P.O. Box 388
116 W. Cobb Street
Grove Hill, AL  36451
251-275-2014 Bookstore
251-275-8684 Office
museum@clarkemuseum.com

Operating Hours
Museum and Bookstore:
Monday: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday - Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Office: Monday - Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

The Clarke County Historical Society is a private non-profit organization founded in 1972.

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A Slave Family by Bobbie Kalman

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$8.95

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(paperback)    A Slave Family helps bring to life the many struggles slaves faced during the colonial period, while also celebrating the strength found in family ties.

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A Yellow Watermelon by Ted Dunagan

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$21.95

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(Hardcover)    In rural south Alabama in 1948, whites picked on one side of the cotton field and blacks on the other. In A Yellow Watermelon, twelve-year-old Ted meets Poudlum, a black boy his own age, where the fields meet. Poudlum teaches Ted how to endure the hard work while they bond and go on to integrate the field. Ted learns of evil forces gathering to deprive Poudlum's family of their property. The two boys encounter danger and suspense while saving Poudlum's family and discovering a great secret of enlightenment.

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All Over Alabama by Laurie Parker

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$15.95

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All Over Alabama is the fun account of a close-knit family that lives in Alabama—a family of frogs that is! (Hardcover)

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Jimbo on Board the Nettie Quill by Henry Ford Harrison

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$16.00

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Jimbo is both an adventure story and a learning tool. Initially, it tells of Jimbo taking his first paddlewheel riverboat ride in 1895. (Hardcover)

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Life on a Plantation by Bobbie Kalman

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$7.95

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Describes the plantations that existed in the southern United States into the nineteenth century, examining what life was like for the owners of these large farming communities, their children, and the slaves.(Paperback)

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Military Aircraft of WWII by Ole Steen Hansen (currently out of stock)

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$8.95

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Used mainly for reconnaissance, the first wartime pilots merely waved in greeting at passing enemy pilots. By the end of the WWI, enemies were being shot out of the sky by machine gun equipped planes. Clear, concise text and detailed illustrations show children how pilots and their planes evolved throughout the war.

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Nations of the Southeast by Molly Aloian

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$8.95

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(Paperback)     This informative new book highlights the different Native nations that lived in southeastern North America before and during the seventeenth century.

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Secret of the Satilfa by Ted Dunagan

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$21.95

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(Hardcover)   Ted Dunagan, named 2009 Georgia Author of the Year in the young adult category for his debut novel, A Yellow Watermelon, continues the saga of two adventuresome boys in this sequel. Both books are set squarely in the Southern literary tradition as they reveal the lives of young Ted and Poudlum, friends despite the racial divide in rural Alabama in the late 1940s. In the new volume, Dunagan again demonstrates his ability to weave a strong narrative with easygoing prose.

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The Salvation of Miss Lucretia

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$21.95

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The adventures of Ted and Poudlum continue in this series based in 1940's Coffeeville, Clarke County.

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