We’ve been doing this one for several years, now. The number of events and attendance at the events continues to grow!
southwest alabama
Ghosts of the Black Belt
New Rack Card for Southwest Alabama created for the University of Alabama Center for Economic Development, for the www.alabamasfrontporches.com project.
Southwest Alabama Tourism
Went to Thomasville, Alabama on Wednesday (we took a different route than my normal path down Highway 5 through Brent and Marion by going down I-65 through Maplesville and on through Selma and Orville, Alabama). Beautiful drive, but haven’t gone that way in years.
Met with the Ala-Tom RC&D folks to discuss the website for Southwest Alabama Regional Tourism (alabamasfrontporches.com). We had a great productive meeting and I’ve downloaded all the files and started working on revamping the site. First, I corrected a few glaring problems–like setting appropriate fonts and resizing photos. I’m looking forward to getting into the real meat of the subject in the coming weeks as the folks down south send me information to fill in the site. We’re starting with 5 attractions in each county (11 total counties) and we’ll work our way through that in the next two months. Once we’ve completed that, we’re going to create some Black Belt Driving Tours and some other information about festivals in Southwest Alabama. Should be fun.
The whole point is to get folks who are traveling through to stop and also to encourage travelers to come and visit Alabama’s Front Porches and learn about Southwest Alabama.