Alabama bans Cycles Gladiator wine

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Originally Posted by Mr. Silver

No, this one isn't a memorial to honor dead soldiers - it's a defiant, pistol raised general on a horse in honor of the confederacy.

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We have a whole street of those. But I must say, it's a beautiful street.

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Originally Posted by skinimini

I remember the Jolly Ox restaurant--I had my first adult beverage there (actually several). When were you there?

I was raised in Birmingham until I left for college. I graduated from Berry High School in 1975. No family there at all now. I have quite a few stories as well (and fond memories). I'm so proud of being a southerner now, but in the '70s I wanted nothing more than to rid myself of the southern accent.

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I'm proud to be from the NEW Alabama too! But I never did, nor do I now, have an accent.

I went to John Carroll, Silver went to Homewood, SilverSister went to Berry and would have overlapped you there. I worked at Jolly Ox in '79ish and then at the Eckerd Drug store right across the parking lot for a couple years as well.

Y'all do realize That Nathan Bedford Forrest was also instrumental in another organization? and he's not on Monument Ave in Richmond, but Arthur Ashe is...
it does seem like a lot of civil war history has been hijacked for "other uses":(