The Adventures of Kinky Reggae: A Vagabond for Beauty

I tried to go to the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, but it was closed. Nooooooo! Luckily, I plan on going back to the Southeast next summer. The Tuskegee Institute is in the same town. There are several areas to this national monument, so I chose to visit the George Washington Carver Museum. I watched movie and explored the displays of all the things he invented. What a brilliant man! I thought it was especially interesting how he made paint pigments from Alabama clay. I took lots of notes at this site and put them on my Instagram post, but I archived the post (along with many others; there were way too many pictures of my face for this contest) and now I can't find it. :-( My next stop was the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. I didn't go all the way to Selma, which I now regret after seeing the movie Selma. (This site affected me so much that I bought a class set of "Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom" for my students, and then we watched Selm

Since this trip happened two months ago, it almost seems pointless to blog about it. But I want to make sure I blog about every national park site I've been to, even if there's not much to say. Okay, so, when I was visiting my parents in Chicago, I realized I still had some time left before school started to visit park sites. Also, I was having so much fun with the Pic Your Park contest, I wasn't ready to stop! So, I decided to visit Alabama. My parents were baffled and thought it was a terrible idea and don't understand why I'm in such a hurry to see all the parks. Honestly, it was not a good financial decision, but I have no regrets because I ended up really enjoying this trip! I started out by visiting Stones River National Battlefield in Tennessee. I hiked around this area called The Slaughter Pen. 24,000 people were killed, wounded, or captured here. Just like most battlefields, this place had an eerie energy. The next morning, I visited Chickamauga &