Join author and historian John Sledge for a discussion and booksigning event at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers. John will discuss his book “Mobile and Havana: Sisters Across the Gulf,” sharing insights on the complex economic and cultural ties between Cuba and Alabama.
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John S. Sledge retired from the Mobile Historic Development Commission in 2024 and currently serves as maritime historian-in-residence at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the North American Society of Oceanic History. Sledge is the author of nine books, including The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History; The Mobile River; These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War; Mobile and Havana: Sisters Across the Gulf; and coming this fall Mobile in the Heart. He lives in Fairhope with his editor wife Lynn.