Marvin Lee Harper, noted Northport historian and Tuscaloosa County [Alabama] preservationist, died Friday morning at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa. He was 89…
During those years in the antique-filled house, he amassed more than a lifetime’s worth of honors, accolades and awards for his work in the field of historic preservation…
For the past three years, Alabama Public Radio senior news producer Brett Tannehill had been working with Harper on an oral history of the area. Though unfinished, it is to be part of the Heritage Learning Center, a project that Harper was working to get established behind Shirley Place…
“If you look at the list of things I’ve done,” Harper said, “everything on it has to do with something old.”
He will be remembered for not letting those things die.
Read the full article and extensive list of Marvin Harper’s accomplishments in the April 25, 2009 edition of Tuscaloosanews.com
I am a nursing student in Tuscaloosa & I had the pleasure of taking care of Mr. Harper during his last days. Even on his sick bed he was one of the sweetest elderly patients I had. I just found out tonight he passed away & I am honored I gotten to meet him.