Alabama in May

A Small Town

I visited a special town, today.

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I just sat in these flowers and stared up at the old courthouse.

Back When
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I tried to imagine Monroeville, Alabama in 1903 when the courthouse was brand new...and in the 1930's  when a lawyer named A.C. Lee walked through these doors.
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​Then I went inside...
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​I looked up at the tin ceiling stamped with dogwood blossom designs and I stared down at the shiny, pine floors...and then I climbed the stairs.

Looking Down
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I stared down over the railing, just like the characters Scout, Jem and Dill did in the book To Kill a Mockingbird.

Better than Flowers
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Then I found a better place to pose than flowers.

I will always remember my trip to this small southern town where Harper Lee grew up.  So much of To Kill a Mockingbird was based on her childhood memories here.  I wonder if she ever found small treasures in the hole of a tree, like Jem and Scout did? 

I should have found a tree hole to pose in before I left!

 

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