Episode 86 - Donna Castellano, Huntsville Heritage Foundation, 2025 Kuykendall Awd

Air Date: August 4, 2025 Donna Castellano, Executive Director of
the Historic Huntsville Foundation, discusses the programs that the
HHF has pursued. She discusses the Harrison Brothers Hardware store
(HHF headquarters), the eleven National Historic Register
nominations the HHF has made and the research projects into women’s
and Black history that ensued from them, HHF walking tours, pop-up
museum installations, funding, and the future of the HHF.
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4ap4c36y Links mentioned in the
episode -- Alabama Historical Association:
https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA James Ray Kuykendall Award:
https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-ray-kuykendall-award Historic
Huntsville Foundation: https://www.historichuntsville.org/ Harrison
Brothers Hardware: https://harrisonbrothershardware.com/ National
Register of Historic Places:
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm Old Town
Historic District: https://oldtownhuntsville.org/ Twickenham
Historic District (EOA):
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/twickenham-historic-district/
Alice Boarman Baldridge:
https://www.historichuntsville.org/alice-boarman-baldridge/ Six
Black Women Voters:
https://www.historichuntsville.org/black-suffragists/
Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/ Cornerstones of Freedom
walking tour:
https://huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/news/2025/05/30/cornerstones-of-history-walking-through-huntsvilles-black-business-legacy/
Footsteps to Statehood walking tour:
https://www.historichuntsville.org/events/footsteps-to-statehood-a-walking-tour-through-history/
Daniel Brandon:
https://cityblog.huntsvilleal.gov/brick-by-brick-constructing-the-history-of-henderson-and-daniel-brandon/
Justice for the Johnsons exhibit:
https://www.historichuntsville.org/justice-for-the-johnsons/ Road
to Lydia Drive exhibition:
https://www.waaytv.com/news/lydia-drive-to-become-huntsvilles-first-historic-civil-rights-district/article_b3d1ca36-b10a-11ee-bad2-e3ebcceee6fb.html
Heinz Hilten (Collection at UAH):
http://libarchstor.uah.edu:8081/repositories/2/resources/29 Werner
von Braun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun The
Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff. Founded in
1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide
historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for
meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings,
historical markers, and other programs. See the website
www.alabamahistory.net.