Alabama Makes it into The History of The World!

(First a quick note...thanks to those who emailed etc...the old PC is back in operation thanks to friend Michael H.--- and Tech-2-U expert Jason. If you need PC or Apple work, ask and I'll give you his Montgomery number.)

     Driving to work at CBS-8 in Montogmery each morning at O'Dark'O'Clock, I listen to about 15 minutes of the BBC overnight on Alabama Public Radio. This morning I heard an interesting segment about a project they've undertaken with museums to tell the History of The World through just ten objects. And guess what one of the ten is? A model of the CSS Alabama, about which I've written rather extensively on this blog!

     We're in prime company too..look at the other nine objects that made the lilst:

• Dodo skeleton
• Stage from St Peter's Church Hall (where John Lennon first saw Paul McCartney perform!)
• St Christopher statue
• Cypriot child's rattle
• Propellor from RMS Lusitania
• Crossens Canoe
• Sarmatian cavalryman tombstone
• The 'Ince Athena'
• Titanic lifejacket

You can read more about the BBC project here.
     I wonder if we were to collect ten objects that would tell Alabama's History, what would they be? Certainly something from the Civil War, something from the Civil Rights movement. An object from the Creek Indian War...something from Huntsville's rocket story and Birmingham's Iron history? A jar of sorghum syrup? A Mobile Mardi Gras mask?