Literary folk will rejoice in the fact that one of the four houses that F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre lived in survived. The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama is a preserved Jazz Age home, the only one of its kind in the world. Zelda […]
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There are over 4,000 works of art in the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts focusing primarily on American artists from the eighteenth century to the contemporary period. It is the oldest fine arts museum in Alabama with a great wealth of folk art, glass work, and regional art. The exhibit […]
Jefferson Davis was a senator of the United States who established the Smithsonian Institution, instituted the civil service system, and was involved in the construction of the Panama Canal. He was also the President of the Confederate States of America, though it is said that he was reluctant to accept […]
Alabama has had five capitals during its history as a state, but since 1846 it has been in Montgomery. The Alabama State Capitol is built in a Greek revival style and was completed in 1851. A few years later as the country fell into the Civil War, Montgomery would become […]
One of Alabama’s four National Forests, Bankhead National Forest, is known as the land of a thousand waterfalls. It is located in northwestern Alabama a bit off the beaten path, under an hour and a half from Birmingham and Huntsville, and less than that from Decatur. There are many trails […]
In between Birmingham and Montgomery is a magical trail with trees who took shape in the most peculiar way. Find your way to Orr Park and you will see the Tinglewood Trail is something out of a storybook. A stroll beside the Shoal Creek under the shade of cedar trees […]