Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse: Goat Hill memories

  While observing the Alabama Legislature the other day, I fondly remembered a very eventful day as a young man. As a teenager, I grew up working at the Capitol as a page in the House and Senate.

  Albert Brewer had been elected to the House from Morgan County in his late 20’s and became Speaker in only his second term. He would eventually let me sit beside him in the Speaker’s box and tell me why certain bills were assigned to certain committees and the probable fate of each piece of proposed legislation.