Sharing our Strand Story
Leslie Henderson and Naomie Rae Lawson By LESLIE HENDERSONSpecial to Atmore News My Mimaw, Gloria Johnson, has a Strand Story. Her Aunt Clione Pugh worked there around the early 1950s and would bring Mimaw with her. They rode the train from Canoe Station to Williams Station. Mimaw remembers watching Aunt Clione get the theater ready to open, sell tickets, popcorn and drinks. The Strand looked a little different back then.My…