Gulf Coast - Calendar of Events

2006 “Something to Think About” Lecture Series presents The History of Alabama’s Constitution

Date: 1/13/2006
Location: Gulf Shores Adult Activity Center, 260 Clubhouse Drive, Gulf Shores
Price: Free to public.
Phone: 251-968-1172
Come early for coffee at 9:30 AM, followed at 10:00 by the featured speaker presented by Jim Day. Using excerpts from each of Alabama’s six constitutions, this presentation traces the ebb and flow of democracy in the state.

Confederate States Marine Camp of Instruction

Date: 1/14/2006
Location: 51 Bienville Blvd, Dauphin Island
Phone: 251-861-6992
Web Site: www.dauphinisland.org
Experience a day in the life of the confederate marines as they go about their daily routines. Artillery drills, barracks inspections, classes on military courtesy, and on Marine Ship Duty. Weapons will be issued and inspected. Resident Blacksmith will demonstrate his craft.

Entertainment Series 2006 presents An Enchanted Evening The Music of Broadway

Date: 1/16/2006 - 1/18/2006
Location: Erie Meyer Civic Center, Gulf Shores
Price: Preferred seats: $23.50 Good seats: $19.50
Phone: 251-968-1172
7:00 p.m. The extraordinary talented team of Lee Lessack and Joanne O'Brien presents music spanning over six decades of the best of Broadway. This concert of romance and memories from the Great White Way includes your favorite songs from the enduring classics to contemporary hits.

2006 “Something to Think About” Lecture Series presents Preparing the Way: The Tuskegee Airmen and the “Double V”

Date: 1/20/2006
Location: Gulf Shores Adult Activity Center, 260 Clubhouse Drive, Gulf Shores
Price: Free to public.
Phone: 251-968-1172
Come early for coffee at 9:30 AM, followed at 10:00 by the featured speaker presented by Lacy Ward, Jr. Who were the Tuskegee Airmen and what is their legacy? This riveting lecture discusses the Airmen – where they came from, their training, their missions in the Mediterranean and European theaters, and their impact following the war.

Entertainment Series 2006 presents American Spiritual Ensemble Music of Inspiration

Date: 1/23/2006 - 1/25/2006
Location: Erie Meyer Civic Center, Gulf Shores
Price: Preferred seats: $23.50 Good seats: $19.50
Phone: 251-968-1172
7:00 p.m. Having sung in theaters and opera house around the world, their repertoire ranges from opera to spirituals to Broadway.

Krewe De La Dauphine Mardi Gras Parade

Date: 1/28/2006
Location: Dauphin Island
Parade begins at 1:00 pm. Watch and enjoy as revelers throw sweets, trinkets, beads and toys.

The 2006 Senior Bowl

Date: 1/28/2006
Location: Mobile’s Ladd-Peebles Stadium.
Price: Various Price Levels And Seating Locations Are Available.
Web Site: www.seniorbowl.com
Kickoff to be announced. The contest will be nationally-televised by ESPN. The Senior Bowl is the nation’s most unique football game and football’s premier pre-draft event, annually featuring the country’s best senior collegiate football stars and top NFL draft prospects on teams representing the North and South which are coached by the entire coaching staffs from two National Football League teams.

Entertainment Series 2006 presents Abaca String Band

Date: 2/2/2006
Location: Erie Meyer Civic Center, Gulf Shores
Price: Preferred seats: $23.50 Good seats: $19.50
Phone: 251-968-1172
7:00 p.m. This band's unique instrumentation, consisting of eight string guitar, mandolin, violin, viola, and double bass, is well suited to their own arrangements that ranges from Bach to the Beatles via Mozart and Gershwin.

2006 “Something to Think About” Lecture Series presents A Little Known Episode of Alabama’s History

Date: 2/3/2006
Location: Gulf Shores Adult Activity Center, 260 Clubhouse Drive, Gulf Shores
Price: Free to public.
Phone: 251-968-1172
Come early for coffee at 9:30 AM, followed at 10:00 by the featured speaker presented by Jackie Matte. It was said that Geronimo could see into the future, walk without leaving footprints and even hold off the dawn to protect his people! Slides of photographs will chronicle this proud Apache warrior’s life as a prisoner in Mount Vernon barracks.

Island Mystics Mardi Gras Parade

Date: 2/4/2006
Location: Dauphin Island
Parade begins at 1:00 p.m. Get ready to shout, "Hey Mister, throw me a moon pie!"