Stitching amid the whirr of sewing machines, the quilters, who carefully and lovingly stitched together red, white and blue patriotic fabrics, shared their stories of fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who served in the military.

From the front door of her home just down the hill from the church, E’dee Grun watches the line of cars form. On food distribution days, the first car usually arrives around 3:30-4 in the morning. By the time the doors to Feeding Families of Alabama opens at 9 a.m., more than 100 cars are lined up.

If you listen to Reginald Jackson tell it, he had no other option. He was destined to play music.

Just open the door. Summer has arrived – complete with high double-digit temperatures and stifling humidity. That heat and humidity makes it difficult to stay active, especially for seniors.

For two-and-a-half years, Sonya Cook Ayers faced life-altering obstacles: the death of her 17-year-old grandson, providing emotional support for her grieving children and grandchildren, caring for her sick husband and mother and losing her job.

Think of grandparents as superheroes — minus the capes, masks, leotards and the ability to fly, but with endless love, stories and sweets.

Walking through downtown Decatur, past historic buildings — the Old State Bank, which survived the Civil War and served as a bank, saloon, hospital and dance hall, and the Tennessee Valley Bank, which now houses the Morgan County Archives — John Allison, as a young boy, developed an interest…

Jenny Young looked at her oil landscape of a blue, pink and yellow sky, clouds and a mountain range.

With the warmer temperatures of spring on the way, lace up your sneakers and hit the area’s walking paths, hiking trails and indoor tracks for a dose of exercise.

Wearing blue jeans, Paula Alderman lined up at the starting line of the Turkey Trot 5K in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and started walking.

Mark Maloney runs through the list of “What ifs.”

Samuel Wilkerson followed Pastor Barry Strong down the steps to a dimly lit kitchen. Opening cabinets and freezers, Strong handed Wilkerson cans of vegetables, soups and cranberry sauce, packets of hot chocolate, a 40-ounce jar of peanut butter, frozen meat, a bag of apples, Nerd gummies and…

Donned in an ill-fitting, hand-me-down red suit and cheap boot covers, Paul Martin, his short hair and beard gray, glanced in the mirror dishearteningly. He knew everyone at the holiday event for special needs individuals would see him as an imposter.

Surrounded by 40 rolls of wrapping paper and hundreds of packages of T-shirts, socks and underwear, Tracey Cater turns on a football game and wraps boxes. For two weeks every December for the past 12 years, Cater has sorted shirts, socks and underwear and wrapped them in boxes topped with a …

As Carlos Gomez began the last lap of his workout, Jane Johnson shouted cheers of encouragement.