DID Season Interim Content - Lessons Learned, Challenges for an Independent Podcaster, and What's Coming in Season 2
Send us Fan Mail Season One of Dauphin Island Diaries may be complete, but before Season Two begins, we are taking a look behind the podcast and examining some of the challenges involved in researching and sharing the history of Dauphin Island, Mobile Bay, and the surrounding Gulf Coast. Dauphin Island Diaries is a one-man production. Research, writing, travel, recording, editing, marketing, guest scheduling, and everything else involved in producing the program all pass through Big John. Pro...
29 Sept 2026
DID Ep 13 - The Shapeshifter (The Ever-changing Shape of Dauphin Island)
Send us Fan Mail Dauphin Island is a shapeshifter. Barrier islands may appear permanent on a map, but they are constantly being rebuilt by waves, currents, wind, storms, and the movement of sand. Along the Mississippi–Alabama coast, the eastern ends of islands tend to retreat while their western ends grow—allowing the islands themselves to migrate westward over time. That movement helps explain why the Sand Island Lighthouse no longer has an island, why Fort Gaines remains threatened by erosi...
15 Sept 2026
DID Ep 12 - The Last Slave Ship (The Clotilda and Africatown)
Send us Fan Mail In 1860—more than half a century after the importation of enslaved people into the United States became illegal—the schooner Clotilda sailed past Dauphin Island and entered Mobile Bay carrying approximately 108 or 109 surviving African captives. Alabama businessman Timothy Meaher had financed the illegal expedition, and Captain William Foster had sailed the Clotilda to Ouidah on the West African coast. There, Foster purchased 110 people who had been captured during raids cond...
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