Our Humanities faculty have been spending a good deal of time with Harvey (Hardy) Jackson over the past week. He's considered to be a historical guru of all things Alabama. His ambitious book Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State covers nearly every thing an Alabamian could think of...and quite a bit more. It's written with a somewhat dry tone as histories are prone to, but one quote "got me to laughin' real hard." Jackson on the early Alabama Native Americans:
Around A.D. 1000, the Alabama Indians began to build their mounds. We don't know why. Maybe one of them saw some on a trading trip into the Ohio River Valley, came back and told his friends, "what this place needs is mounds." (3)
Ha. "We gotta get us somma dem mounds."
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HAHA... I think I find the mounds thing very entertaining because I am so tired... Or maybe something else I really have no over all clue! Anyway... How's everything going in D-town? How'd the second meeting of Nathan and yourself's college group go? David said that he's been enjoying it a lot so, that means that it's GOTTA be fun right? How's the whole being back at school treatin' ya? Well I think that this is a good amount of questions enjoy...
Luke
i miss bcherie. and i'm going to call her soon. we're having a china town party tmrw. basically lots of fake stuff tiffany, prada, kate spade, dior, fendi... kind of deal wish you could come- just so i could see you. it snowed the other day i was at memphis (school) and you weren't neither was any saran wrap. growing up bites.
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