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Alabama Sunset near MobilePhoto Credit: David Mark via Pixabay

Alabama Sunset near Mobile

Photo Credit: David Mark via Pixabay

March 19th and March 20th

Mobile, Monroeville

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.  In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square.  Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.  Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning.  Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.” 

― from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee