Original auction documents on display at McHAM for Rooster Day

Frank Derby, the mastermind behind the Demopolis Rooster Auction in 1919, kept a scrapbook of the event.

That scrapbook, along with all the original documents from the auction, will be available for inspection at the Marengo County Historical and Archives Museum during Rooster Day Saturday, Sept. 17.

Sheila Limerick, the archives and special collections librarian at UWA, will display the scrapbook from 9 a.m. to noon at McHam.