As a native of the area and a graduate of Albertville High School I found the sections on the history of the area as well as the related photographs to be extremely interesting and informative. With that said, the author is clearly a zealot and he is unable to stay on topic for more than a paragraph or two with out some anachronism creeping in or jumping to some other related topic. The first 2/3 of the book is an interesting read and the photographs are both informative and hilarious. In the last 1/3 of the book the author's zeal really takes hold as he begins talking about football. At this point I lost interest, as it seems the author is really just another football obsessed fanatic that is all too common in the area these days. If you're going to read this book, do so only for the historical insight you can glean from it.