Play could help save infamous Pickens County courthouse

By Mark Hughes Cobb Staff Writer

A new play based on the legend of Henry Wells, who allegedly torched the Pickens County Courthouse in 1876, may ironically help save the replacement building where Wells’ haunted face is said to be burned by lightning into a garret window.

“When you say you’re from Pickens County, people either say ‘Well, that’s where my hunting club is’ or ‘That’s where the face in the window is,’ ” said Leon Manning, senior vice president of First National Bank of Central Alabama, which is producing the play. “It’s clearly an asset we could build up.”

Read More at TuscaloosaNews.com...