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Selma Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Selma, United States
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Selma
Selma is where in 1965 there was a famous march for voting rights. There is a museum commemorating the march, and recording how the black population lost and regained voting rights. Very moving. It also covers the Ku Klux Klan's antics. There is a ...
Day Ten, Ghost Town
... tourists. And they serve their drinks in jars. Other than that I don't have much to report, the hotel I'm staying in at Selma seams reasonable enough. The pool water is cold, the sunshine is hot, and the happy hour is cheap (and I am currently ...
Selma Middle School
We left the Whitesell's home early in the morning to arrive in Selma in time to set up for a 9:45 show. When we arrived, we had four great guys help us set up. The space required a gymnasium set-up, which means the screens must be erected ...
Still in north Carolina
I'm bored but it's fun seeing different things except all I see are trees and fields.., nothing special ...
incredibly blustery day
... AD to 1400 AD) which was one of the political and spiritual hubs on the Black Warrior River. I enjoyed it very much. we then rode into Selma to relax and enjoy the warmth(85degrees) I went for a dip in the pool and now am ready to sleep at 6:00 pm. this ...
Sore muscles. Realization of my good fortune.
Waking up in Selma, I am quite sore and the only thing I can move is my left arm to grab th remote and turn on some T/V to give my self some background noise as I slowly get things moving. When I get up, I realize that I am not 21 anymore and working into ...
The First Day on the Bike
The first day with the bike and trailer and I rode 21.7 miles from Hanford to Selma California. I kept it light today and checked into a motel in the seedier part Selma. The reason being is that during my stops, the people I spoke to between corn field, ...
Day Ten
... Today we travel to our next destination, back into California. This is only an overnight stay really, this time it is the town of Selma. We stay at the Holiday Inn, a small hotel but really nice, they have a Harvester type restaurant next door, a windmill ...
pizza!
Today we arrived at our second school and were greeted by our peppy contact person. She was awesome though. She gave us some girls to help and she asked if we had had lunch yet and we were like "well no, we usually do afterwords" and then she offered to ...
AK 47 photos
... revolvers and pistols. I'll try to upload photos with this link. We are now back on the history trail, hitting Selma bridge today. I'm planning to hit a segregated school tomorrow, though Patrick is resisting it, before we head off to Montgomery, a ...
It was a BIG day
... got to the valley the warmer it got. As we arrived in Selma at 6:00pm it was 96 F but very dry. On the way to Selma we passed through groves of grapes, pomegranites and olives. There were a couple of more big things I wanted to find along the way and we ...
So much has changed, but so much hasn't....
... today. So much has changed, but in the end, still so much hasn't. Second - the National Voting Rights Institute in Selma. If you haven't been, you must go. They've been open since 1993. Among their collections are the Alabama State Troopers surveillance ...
Selma, Yikes.
... stamp. Photos of the hanger and the surrounding airfield are included here. From Tuskegee we headed west bound for the Selma to Montgomery Historical Highway, which looks a heckova lot like a regular old road to the untrained eye. To be ...
Day 1
... lost and was able to follow the GPS with any problem. Imagine that!!!! We drove until 4:30 pm and stopped for the night in Selma, NC. Definitely didn't want to stop in the same area as last year, nope just couldn't do it. I just knew we ...
Surviving the Gauntlet
... everybody else. So, great animaltarian that I am, I slowed down a little so that they might live. Thankfully, I made it to Selma with no kills, though I think the Camry was a bit disappointed. But he did get his share of bug splatter. ...
Andy's Big OE
A good thunderstorm to start the day so got wet to start with. Went good to Pedlar Dam and picked up stray dog – German Shepard. Then 1 mile from Brown Mtn Creek shelter I badly hurt ankle and took about an hour to cover the mile. Ankle swollen up ...
Heading South
... most of the day, soft dry sunshine, and improving all the time. As it was Wendy's Birthday I took her somewhere special..... Selma North Carolina. If you haven't heard of Selma you should as its a major railroad junction. The Selma air is filled ...
Following the Civil Rights march
... trailer parks, plantation houses and even a hillbilly mall. Eventually we got to Montgomery then followed the historic Selma to Montgomery marches which were protesting about black voting rights in the south. In Selma itself there was ...
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