It was fun to sit in the balcony looking down on the courtroom as Harper Lee looked down on it so many times when her daddy, Amasa Lee argued his cases. It was quite the thrill to stand at the defense attorney’s table and pretend to be Atticus Finch for a moment. A replica of that courthouse was created for the award-winning movie of the same name. The old courthouse with the iconic courtroom is a museum now. In that courthouse some of the action in the “Go Big Read” book, “Just Mercy” takes place. Driving around the square, a new courthouse has been added. Monroeville, the town on which Maycomb is based upon in both “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Go Set a Watchman” is a county seat with the court house sitting smack dab in the center of the town. This literary pilgrimage was well worth the trip. So the day after the conference ended I drove north past cotton fields ready for harvesting and sorghum fields too. But the good news is that Orange Beach, Alabama is only a couple of hours south of Monroeville, Alabama the home of Harper Lee and Truman Capote. But I was inside all day attending a workshop. The Gulf of Mexico was calm and filled with dolphins, mullets, and other leaping fish. The skies were clear and brilliantly blue. I was out of town this past week in Orange Beach, Alabama and I bet you didn’t notice because, here I am,sitting in Pensacola writing this, while waiting to catch a flight back home and making sure a week doesn’t go by without my weekly column.
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