Getting to know ALABAMA....LOL

This is good info...if I ever make it to Alabama...I always think of how Tom Hanks said it in "Forrest Gump"!!

Barbara, I'm so glad someone outside my mother's family actually says "dreckly"!  I think I may have been a teenager before I knew what the word was supposed to mean!  My mom and her sister were from Arkansas (talk about a foreign country!) and I can remember being so embarrassed by some of the things they would say and do (and eat...)  Illinois being SO sophisticated, you know.

Of course, now that they're gone, I would give anything to have all of those things back, isn't that the way it is?  And, now I'm embarrassing my own teenagers!

I've been an couple tiems through Alabama, but as I said what I remember most about it was my hubby's officer in the Viet nam war, Capt John Noble, every inch an southern gentleman.

norajean, where from in Illinois?..if I may ask.

We used to sing a song in my junior school, I've not heard it for years. 

I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee,
I'm going to Louisiana, my true love for to see
It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death; Susanna, don't you cry.
Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me
I come from Alabama,
With my banjo on my knee.
I had a dream the other night when everything was still,
I thought I saw Susanna coming up the hill,
The red, red rose was in her hand, the tear was in her eye,
I said I'm coming from Dixieland, Susanna don't you cry.
I soon will be in New Orleans and then I'll look around
And when I find my gal Susanne, I'll fall upon the ground
But if I do not find you there, then I will surely die
And when I'm dead and buried, Susanna don't you cry.

Just googled that, there's quite a history to it!