Howdy to all from the heart of Dixie,We spent all day in the State of Alabama. Our first picture features M standing in front of the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Alabama. This statue was erected by the grateful citizens of the city to the boll weevil for so utterly destroying their cotton crops that they diversified their agriculture, which turned out to be much more lucrative in the long run. Notably, Enterprise was ahead of the curve in shifted to peanuts, which enabled them to be the supplier of seed peanuts as surrounding areas also got away from cotton. According to M's research, the 'town's leaders couldn't decide on a name, and the name of Enterprise was literally drawn out of a hat.
This next shot is of the smallest city block in the world, located in Dothan, Alabama, where we spent the night. In the city, but not on the block. As of yet, neither Waffle House nor Starbucks has been able to put together the plans to place a franchise on this location. Dothan is famous for peanuts, so maybe a peanut stand would fit.
And speaking of peanuts, here are M and G standing in front of the famous golden peanut, also located in Dothan. There was also a giant pig, but I am going to include that in a separate post.
From Dothan and Enterprise in South Alabama, we headed up the road to the capital in Montgomery, where we saw the birthplace of the Confederacy. We saw the original Confederate White House which was the residence of Jefferson Davis for a few months until the capital of the Confederacy was moved to Richmond, Virginia. there is a six pointed gold star at the top of the steps of the capitol building where Jefferson Davis took the oath of office as President of the Confederacy. Most people don't realize the difficulty of his job. He was waging a war against a numerically and industrially superior foe with people who didn't want to be told what to do. The whole premise of the Confederacy was that the states didn't need to submit to a higher authority for anything. It's amazing that the Confederacy lasted four years.
In Birmingham we stopped by to get a glimpse of the giant Vulcan statue. Sorry to disappoint the Trekkies out there, but this was not some pointy-eared dude, but rather the deformed Roman god of the forge. Percy Jackson fans will know him better by his Greek name Hephaestus. More to come later, ERH
2 comments:
Hey, My brother went on his mission to Dothan, Alabama. I didn't know it was so interesting:)
I like your blog...it's fun to read.
It looks like you've got great weather with you. We planned to go to Southern Utah, but we're waiting until the end of the week in hopes of soaking up vitamin D.
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