Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Sun glinting off the roof, averting my gaze down to the caption, the town’s name caught my eye as well:
In 1877, resident M. L. Fielder bought 122 acres on the western border of Pleasant Grove and offered one-acre lots to settlers for free, provided that they built a house or established a business. Fielder then established a post office in his home, naming the new settlement Eclectic, after the school of alternative medicine in which he had trained.
FYI: I decided my previously posted (and now deleted) PFF was thematically tone-deaf (it was of a diving bird).
Sun glinting off the roof, averting my gaze down to the caption, the town’s name caught my eye as well:
‘Eclectic Alabama?’ ….. now THAT’S cool
also ….. nice picture
Very very nice. Thanks for sharing!