Introduction: Threads of the past -- Uniquely Southern -- Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens -- The Samuel Ullman Museum -- Brother James Alexander Bryan -- Coal mines, iron ore and vulcan -- Sloss furnaces -- Ruffner Mountain Nature Center -- Vulcan -- Places of growth and reconciliation -- Alabama Penny Savings Bank -- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church -- Kelly Ingram Park -- A.G. Gaston Motel -- Carver Theatre -- Diversions -- Rickwood Field -- Southern Museum of Flight -- Barber Motorsports Park -- Alabama Sports Hall of Fame