Tag: Alabama
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The Southeast’s Protected Cave Network
I know a thing or two about caves growing up in southern West Virginia. We used to walk high between the river bank and rock ledges when we played in the woods growing up, spelunking for coal fossils. Any trip to any good state park included some nice rocks to squeeze between or climb up.…
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Hank Williams: The String Between West Virginia and Alabama
I was poking around a graveyard at 7 a.m. on a weekday morning in Montgomery, Alabama when I sat down beside Hank Williams and wrote: “I wonder if I looked confident or lost–maybe just thoughtful. It’s hard to look lost as a woman wearing cowboy boots.” So, Hank, I’m thoroughly enjoying this peanut butter and…
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Alabama’s Best Kept Secret
“What is this place?” “The town of Spectre. Best kept secret in Alabama!” And best kept it is. Spectre is a fictional town that Edward Bloom stumbles into early in Tim Burton’s film ‘Big Fish’ (2003). The film was an adaptation of the book with the same name by Birmingham-born Daniel Wallace and is an…
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The South’s Curiosities [Museum of Wonder]
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The South is a curious place — partly people, partly environment, partly history. Butch’s Museum of Wonder might be one of the most curious manifestations of the Southern experience. He’s been referred to as the ‘Father of Intertwanglism’, which I’d never heard of until discovering his artwork; and I find it wildly relatable to anyone who has ever…
Sara L. Cottle 