Staff Report TROY Public Radio’s newest podcast,"It Came from the Archives," discusses the history, culture, and people of Alabama’s Wiregrass region.
“Where the blog posts rely on the visual appeal of the collections' photographs, podcasts provide an opportunity to discuss the nuances and stories that go far beyond the limited length of the blog post, and podcasts are an easy medium to consume,” Olliff said. People are also reading… In 1887, he helped write the bill that established the State Normal School at Troy and shepherded it through the Alabama legislature. Later, Wiley served as a lieutenant colonel of infantry in the Spanish American War, an assistant governor of Santiago province in Cuba, the corporate counsel for the Atlantic Coast Line railway, and the US congressman for Alabama's Second District from 1901 until his death in 1908.