Stonewall Jackson was a colonel in the Civil War and earned his name by standing his ground "like a stone wall."  There is an allusion to him in Chapter 9 as "Ol' Blue Light" and in Chapter 10; Radio Guide featuring Mr. and Mrs. Barbour from the radio and later TV show "One Man's Family" alluded to in Chapter 4; 1899 Indian Head Penny:  Obverse and Reverse from Miss O'C's family coin collection; A Vintage War Poster featuring Franklin D. Roosevelt; Bread line beside the Brooklyn Bridge 1930s; a Model-T Ford alluded to in Chapter 1 as a "flivver;" Millard "Dixie" Howell was a popular U of AL football player in the 1930s and a baseball pitcher for the 1955 White Sox; A 1930s ad for fountain pens alluded to in Chapter 17; There are various references to areas of Alabama such as Tuscaloosa in Chapter 1, Mobile in Chapter 1 and 8, and Birmingham in Chapter 24: