Southern Trip Fall 2010 Days 1-6 Louisiana and Mississippi

Katrina Memorial - Red (house) for blood shed; blue for rising water

Night time in French Quarter

 

Typical French Quarter

Weary

St. Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square

Cemetery in NOLA

Big Daddy at Honey Island Swamp, Slidell, LA

BBQ - Hazelhurst, MS,
also birthplace of Robert Johnson, Blues Musician

Civil War Memorial - at State House in Jackson, MS

Crawdads, Canton, MS

Approach to Rowan Oak
Wm. Faulkner's home in Oxford

Rowan Oak, Faulkner's Home

at Ole Miss

Betty at Elvis's birthplace in Tupelo







Liz and Tiny "E"

Columbus, MS
Hometown of Tennessee Williams

"Who knew nasal spray was so deadly"

Hank Williams grave site, Oak View Cemetery, Montgomery, AL

Oak View Cemetery, Montgomery

Mississippi State House and
Birthplace of Confederacy one block from Birthplace of Civil Rights Movement at Dexter Ave Baptist

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist is just to the right of this sign

Dexter Ave Baptist - M. L. King became pastor at age 24

Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery

Ralph Abernathy was pastor at First Black Baptist (Brick-a-Day Baptist) in Montgomery

Brick-a-Day Baptist- first community meeting to plan bus boycott was held here

Liz and Bro. Benjamin Beasley at Brick-A-Day Baptist. He and three women were in the basement packing Meals-on-Wheels lunches and he stopped to give Betty and me a tour and history of the church where he has attended for 82 years.  I have lots of interesting video of him. He had much to say.

Finger Lickin Good at Dreamland BBQ in Montgomery

Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL

Civil Rights Site