For the most part, these stories are told with brutal honesty and I think tourists from outside the South are impressed and surprised at the candor of these exhibits.

We offered tours of our windows in both the sanctuary and the chapel during the tour. It gave tourists something else to see and do after leaving the exhibit.

There is the misperception that all of coastal Alabama suffered the same type of damage that impacted Mississippi, and that's not the case,

I attended last year's festival and was blown away.

This birding tail is one of the reasons the governor and I decided that 2006 would be the year of outdoors Alabama,

In the past few years, we have seen an increase in international tourism to civil rights sites, ... I think Nelson Mandela's comments about the importance of Rosa Parks has helped make civil rights sites here international sites of interest.