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Updated May 2026 The short version: The Cheese Cottage is one of Mobile’s most charming spots for cheese, wine, and one of the best patios in town. Owner Stephenie Funaro has built it into a local favorite, with cheeses sourced from around the world, wine and cheese pairing classes, and a beloved outdoor seating…

Updated May 2026 The short version: Roosevelt “Rosie” Patterson is a Mobile Sports Hall of Famer, a 1992 Alabama national champion, and a former NFL draft pick of the Los Angeles Raiders. Today he has one of the most beloved jobs in Mobile: he is the doorman at Las Floriditas, a hidden Cuban speakeasy…

Updated May 2026 The short version: In 1860, more than 50 years after the United States banned the international slave trade, the schooner Clotilda smuggled 110 captured Africans into Mobile, the last known slave ship to reach America. After emancipation, survivors built their own community just north of the city called Africatown. Joycelyn…

Updated May 2026 The short version: George Moore is a Mobile institution. He started washing pots for fourteen dollars a week, worked as a food runner at the Battle House Hotel during segregation (when that was one of the only jobs open to Black men there), and lived through Mobile’s entire twentieth-century transformation. When the restored Battle House reopened in 2007, they invited him back, and today the hotel’s gift shop bears his name. This is his story, and the story of the grand hotel he has watched over for most of his life. Some people know a city’s history because they studied it. George Moore knows Mobile’s history because he lived it. For more than half a century, his life and the life of the Battle House Hotel have been woven together, through the city’s booming postwar…