Friend Ben Burford and I took another fun trip into the Black Belt: this time to Selma, Old Cahaba (Cahawba), Marion and Greensboro, Alabama. Check out my flickr page for more photos or read about our first adventure on Ben’s blog.
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Another Sierra Club Newsletter Completed: November 2008
One of the monthly newsletters I work on: The Alabama Sierran. I did the first newsletter for the Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club in January 2006 and have done one each month since then. This is an 8 page tabloid-size newsletter printed on recycled newsprint. You can download the full newsletter at alabama.sierraclub.org. In addition to working on this newsletter, I just finished an online newsletter for Birmingham, Alabama based CGH Insurance Group (www.cghinsurance.com/newsletter). And, perhaps most fun right now, I’m working on a website on tourism–particularly historical and ecological–in Bibb County, Alabama. I’m developing it almost entirely in Movable Type (using a little Dreamweaver to help me handle the CSS stylesheets). Pretty interesting stuff. Not that far along yet, but I’ve built the shell: www.bibbtourism.com. Other than that, just the usual blog updates at Your Town Alabama and Alabama’s Front Porches.
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.