Published On: 02.04.17 | 

By: Alabama News Center Staff

Alabama Power lineman ain’t fiddlin’ around in retirement

Jim Hughes and Fred Hunter

"Absolutely Alabama" host Fred Hunter, left, visits with Jim Hughes. (contributed)

Jim Hughes spent 33 years as an Alabama Power lineman. After he gave up climbing wood poles, he took up carving and creating virtually anything out of wood. This “Absolutely Alabama” piece with Fred Hunter from 2015 tells the story of the Coker craftsman.

Source: Absolutely Alabama – WBRC FOX6 News – Birmingham, AL