Alegendary rural-area midwife and an environmentalist whose work led to Alabama having the first national wilderness area were this year’s inductees into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame (AWHF). AWHF board chair Cathy Randall called Mary Louise Ivy Burks and Margaret Charles Smith “extraordinary Alabamians.” Burks and Smith were inducted into the AWHF on March 4. Burks, of Birmingham, who…
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