The festivities aren't over yet (see the schedule HERE) but thousands of people gathered in Montgomery on a chilly Saturday to Remember the 200th Anniversary of Alabama being granted Statehood.
The events spanned the capitol complex with the highlight being the dedication of a series of stone monuments marking significant events during those 200 years, including Bloody Sunday, when The State attacked Civil Right protestors on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. The 16 stone monuments are in front of the two office buildings that face the Capitol, on either side of Dexter Avenue. (The monuments are not visible in the old Google Earth video linked above.)
Exhibits told about some of those events as well, including actors in period clothes, like Paul and Kim Caudell from Nashvile, who played music common in Alabama for many of her 200 years,
There were animals on the capitol grounds, including Goats (for Goat Hill) and inexplicably, llamas.
There is still a big concert tonight (at 4:00pm ---hurry!!!) on the Capitol Steps and a video will be projected onto the Attorney General's building, sponsored by The Porch Creek Indians, who were here several hundred years earlier.
Exhibits told about some of those events as well, including actors in period clothes, like Paul and Kim Caudell from Nashvile, who played music common in Alabama for many of her 200 years,
There is still a big concert tonight (at 4:00pm ---hurry!!!) on the Capitol Steps and a video will be projected onto the Attorney General's building, sponsored by The Porch Creek Indians, who were here several hundred years earlier.
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