Alabama Tourism News

 

-- Memorial a tribute to sacrifice                                     

-- Harper Lee receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

-- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute selected for national honor

-- Denver Post praises RTJ golf trail

-- Mobile Bay feature in Washington Post

-- Photo exhibit on Alabama farms opens

-- Young artists exhibit at Fendall Hall

-- 1^st Annual Smith Lake Fine Arts Festival this weekend

 

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Alabama, filled with memorials to soldiers who died in wars long past, dedicated a memorial to those who have died in the current one during a ceremony filled with pride and loss. Speeches, applause and tear-stained faces accompanied Tuesday's ceremony as the wall containing the names of the 92 Alabama service members who have died in the Middle Eastern conflict was dedicated. The memorial is eight feet tall and 10 feet wide and displays the names and pictures of the service members killed in action during the past six years.

 

 

 

Alabama native Harper Lee received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a White House ceremony earlier this week. Lee was honored for her beloved novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” 

 

“One reason ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ succeeded is the wise and kind heart of the author, which comes through on every page. This daughter of Monroeville, Alabama, had something to say about honor, and tolerance, and most of all, love -- and it still resonates. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ has influenced the character of our country for the better. It’s been a gift to the entire world. As a model of good writing and humane sensibility, this book will be read and studied forever.” – President George W. Bush    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/11/images/20071105-1_d-0243-3-515h.html

 

 

 

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has been named one of 10 recipients of the 2007 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest honor for community service provided by museums and libraries. The annual award, made by the Institute of Museum and Library Services since 1994, recognizes institutions for outstanding social, educational, environmental, or economic contributions to their communities.  http://www.bcri.org/news/news/current_press_release.htm

 

 

The Alabama Governor’s Mansion will celebrate its 100^th birthday on Thursday, November 15^th from 6-8 p.m. Free tickets are available at the Mansion Gift Ship (located across Finley Avenue from the mansion) upon arrival. Volunteers at the event will be collecting donations of new blankets for the First Lady’s Blankets with a Blessing project, which provides blankets for homeless shelters within Alabama. http://www.800alabama.com/things-to-do/alabama-attractions/details.cfm?id=376

 

 

 

When you think of first-class golf, your first thoughts are likely to be to make a beeline for such lofty locales as Pebble Beach and Orlando, or maybe Myrtle Beach/Hilton Head. Definitely Scottsdale. Probably Palm Springs. And then when you think of world-class accommodations, it's probably New York, Miami. San Francisco? Chicago? Or London or Paris. Tokyo.

 

 

Three of the state's four-diamond hotels rated by AAA are owned by the trail. The Retirement Systems of Alabama, a pension plan for state employees, owns the courses and has a working agreement with Marriott hotels for accommodations for the trail courses. – from the article “Swing home, Alabama” by Greg Henry in the Denver Post  http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_7292451 

 

 

Mobile Bay feature in Washington Post
The Mobile Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau (MBCVB) brought Washington Post writer Gary Lee into town last Mardi Gras to experience the Mobile Bay area. Along with the cooperation and hospitality of several of their local partners, the MBCVB spent a long weekend showing him all the Mobile Bay area has to offer. The result of this collaboration was a feature article on Mobile in this past Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post on the Travel section’s front page. The Washington Post has a circulation of 929,921. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110200988.html?tid=informbox

 

 

 

Robert Schaefer, Jr.: A Portrait of An Alabama Farm is on exhibit as part of the Alabama Imagery series at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts from November 10, 2007 through January 6, 2008. This group of photographs was inspired by the life of Joe Culpepper, a cattle farmer photographer Schaefer grew up with in Cullman.

 

In celebration of the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel’s Year of Alabama Arts, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts arranged this Alabama Imagery series of photography exhibitions focusing on Alabama people, places, and events.  http://www.fineartsmuseum.com/home.cfm

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