Civil Rights plus Colonial America (12th September)

We head west for the start of the day, tracking the original Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery (though we went the opposite way). In the middle was one of the best interpretive centres around, giving good clear information on who marched and why. When we reach Selma we pass by the Brown Chapel where the marches started, the baptist church where the marches were planned and the bridge immortalised by the brutality that the marches were subjected to from the police. Morning tea over we move north through some heavily wooded hilly areas. No swamps here. Just a totally different scene from a couple of days ago. We visit the Dead Centre of Alabama, it is the geographical centre as well as being in a cemetery!!! Outside Montevallo, a local artist has been hard at work carving dead trees in a park. An array of faces, and animals adorn the trees. And yes there is a squirrel, and he just poses so well. After lunch we visit the American Village and History in Miniatures which recreates life from the colonial era plus has dioramas of many of Americas' major historical moments. On our way to the hotel we divert slightly to see some sculptures supposed depicting African history on America ..... our opinion, junk. Not sure why the county doesn't act on their fines! The next couple of nights are in Birmingham.