In late February 1942, the Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset was staying at the home of Hudson Strode, the professor of creative writing at the University Of Alabama.1 During her visit, Hudson Strode would take her to the house of the three elderly sisters of the late Gen. William C. Gorgas, as they lived in one of the only two houses that still stood on …
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