Greenville-Montgomery-Birmingham

Greenville-Montgomery-Birmingham http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html Britt gives Dave and his parents the grand tour of his home town, Greenville. Then, we visit the Civil Rights Movement sites in Montgomery and try to figure out what the heck Vulcan is pointing at in Birmingham. In Greenville, Britt proves you can go home again http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#0 548524f8-989b-4775-9f8d-74cf04bdd1dd http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_0978.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_0978.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In Greenville, Britt proves you can go home again</p></div></div> Daal visits a Greenville institution, the Bates House of Turkey http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#1 1cf1b984-a38a-407f-9855-3a841e6a4ee5 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1004.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1004.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Daal visits a Greenville institution, the Bates House of Turkey</p></div></div> Priester’s Pecans in Fort Deposit: Designs by the Cracker Barrel school of architecture http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#2 0f54e46e-2ded-41f5-b241-b4952de5a509 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1018.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1018.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Priester’s Pecans in Fort Deposit: Designs by the Cracker Barrel school of architecture</p></div></div> Rocking chairs? Is this Charlotte-Douglas International Airport? http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#3 5ab963a7-6818-454c-b5fc-c395df95047a http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1016.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1016.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Rocking chairs? Is this Charlotte-Douglas International Airport?</p></div></div> Who needs hygiene? Everyone takes a free sample at Priesters Pecans http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#4 32c15cb3-b264-4016-b6f7-25bd2d09d301 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1014.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1014.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Who needs hygiene? Everyone takes a free sample at Priesters Pecans</p></div></div> Yeah, it tastes as bad as it sounds http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#5 4f95aa4f-053f-4c72-84d0-2f95f16a042b http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1010.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1010.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Yeah, it tastes as bad as it sounds</p></div></div> Pachydermmmmmm! http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#6 7e35527a-4830-44fc-a2c4-4b129ef1236e http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1006.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1006.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Pachydermmmmmm!</p></div></div> Mom, Dad and Britt touch history at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#7 ae98037c-d5ec-4b0d-be28-4f4c3e004e00 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1020.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1020.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Mom, Dad and Britt touch history at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery</p></div></div> Some of MLK’s most memorable words are etched in granite, just one block away from ... http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#8 dd80b250-e545-41db-a591-cea88072bb07 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1028.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1028.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Some of MLK’s most memorable words are etched in granite, just one block away from ...</p></div></div> ... the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where he pastored from 1954 to 1960. http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#9 2c65724f-0726-4e48-a1e8-7c60577d674b http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1038.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1038.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">... the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where he pastored from 1954 to 1960.</p></div></div> The Alabama Capitol buiding http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#10 0267cdd9-d100-461f-90fd-66901d544d54 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1045.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1045.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Alabama Capitol buiding</p></div></div> Back in Birmingham, we check in at the historic Tutwiler hotel http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#11 e3c984d0-5531-4c6c-9e20-140c7075ed38 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1057.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1057.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Back in Birmingham, we check in at the historic Tutwiler hotel</p></div></div> Can you believe this is actually a Hampton Inn? http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#12 03604f8f-1a14-4c93-8cec-fb84f8a2a370 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1059.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1059.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Can you believe this is actually a Hampton Inn?</p></div></div> It's story time in front of Highlands United Methodist Church in Five Points http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#13 8eac4666-3dc6-43d1-9ad0-383b4b505907 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1064.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1064.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">It's story time in front of Highlands United Methodist Church in Five Points</p></div></div> Inside the Riverchase Galleria, home to ... http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#14 b357f0b6-a003-4897-afb9-bad27fefe354 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1066.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1066.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Inside the Riverchase Galleria, home to ...</p></div></div> ... Bama Fever, the store where they didn't like my Mike Price and Dennis Franchione jokes http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#15 d7f9d81e-7783-4a13-9417-00cd94633eb9 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1068.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1068.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">... Bama Fever, the store where they didn't like my Mike Price and Dennis Franchione jokes</p></div></div> Approaching Vulcan Park http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#16 91840a0a-2316-4777-84b7-7874ad0e44c4 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1069.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1069.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Approaching Vulcan Park</p></div></div> “To infinity and beyond!” http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#17 36e7a398-d530-4d48-8153-1907c75dc2c2 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1087.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1087.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">“To infinity and beyond!”</p></div></div> A little elephant and a little model of Vulcan http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#18 08a23314-94d2-4c7b-b7ce-3e1ee2d8057b http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1095.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1095.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A little elephant and a little model of Vulcan</p></div></div> This is the view from the top of Vulcan’s tower http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#19 3e7ae99f-fcf6-4ce3-bed5-f65890b0f5dd http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1100.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1100.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This is the view from the top of Vulcan’s tower</p></div></div> Big Vulcan and little Vulcan http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#20 b3be08ce-8883-4dc9-842a-e60b5da2f406 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1111.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1111.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Big Vulcan and little Vulcan</p></div></div> Bare derriere in the air http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#21 d3d02797-32ae-485b-9537-e033d41fb0bc http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1116.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1116.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Bare derriere in the air</p></div></div> Entering the Birmingham Botanical Gardens http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#22 4694f64f-7de0-46f7-89f8-18257f977b3a http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1121.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1121.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Entering the Birmingham Botanical Gardens</p></div></div> "Granite Garden," a sculpture fountain http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#23 76cf3fea-d4ad-4182-afd9-4344b89a98a1 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1122.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1122.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">"Granite Garden," a sculpture fountain</p></div></div> Japanese maple tree http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#24 1a6ea1b2-7a54-44c8-b815-ea307e72fdc0 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1125.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1125.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Japanese maple tree</p></div></div> Daal in Birmingham's Japanese garden http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama.html#25 a35eb0c2-3ab8-4db4-b7bf-c54499fa1ea9 http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1127.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/simanoff/Photos2007/Alabama_files/Media/IMG_1127.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; 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