THE CENTENNIAL GRAND EXCURSION Mobile & Fairhope, Alabama July 4, 1914 Having just returned from the Grand Hotel in Point Clear today, passing by all the flags, the Fairhope VFW rib plate specials, the kindness and generosity from all around, lots of sunbathers, kids, pets, pedestrians, and bicyclists, I was struck by the curiosity of what it must have been like this day one hundred years ago on Independence Day 1914. This kind of daydreaming drives my wife crazy as I am the