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ALABAMA —The movie Constellation, released this
year, was filmed in Huntsville, including sites at the
EariyWorks Children's History Museum, the Huntsville
Museum of Art, and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
ARKANSAS —-The birthplace of country music
star Collin Raye, bom in 1959 in De Queen (pop. 5,765),
has been restored for a museum. Rave’s first of 15 No. 1
hits vvas Imve. Me in 1991.
FLORIDA —-Nearly 400 primates swing, chatter
and play freely on 30 acres at Monkey Jungle in Miami.
Monkey Jungle is one of the few protected habitats for
endangered primates in die United States.
GEORGlA —Founded in 1899 by die Strickland
Cotton Mill as a company town for its workers, Remer
ton (pop. 847) today is surrounded by Valdosta (pop.
43,724), although the former maintains its own munici
pal government.
KENTUCKY-One of nations oldest distilling
sites is Buffalo Trace Distillery in Franklin Count)' (pop.
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47,687), where whiskey has been produced since 1787.
The site also is an ancient buffalo crossing.
LOUISIANA —The simple plywood coffin for
Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, was built
by convicted murderer Richard Liggetc at the Louisiana
State Penitentiary in Angola. Graham, 87, died in June.
MISSISSIPPI —Sam Thompson, 26, of Vicksburg
(pop. 26,407) ran 51 marathons in 50 days in 50 stares and
Washington, D.C., last year to raise awareness and money
for Hurricane Katrina victims.
NORTH CAROLINA —Musicians who
play traditional southern Appalachian bluegrass and
Celtic music teach schoolchildren how to play the music
through the Junior Appalachian Music (JAM) program,
founded seven years ago at Sparta (pop. 1,817) Elemen
tary School. At least nine other elementary' schools have
started JAM sessions.
SOUTH CAROLINA —-The Charleston Giant,
a floating crane that travels to the Charleston areas
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900,000 pounds.
TENNESSEE-a $2.48 yellowed rolled-up docu
ment at Music City Thrift Stop in Nashville turned out
to be a rare bargain for Michael Sparks. The document,
an “official copy” of the Declaration of Independence,
one of 200 commissioned by John Quincy Adams and
printed in 182.3, sold in June at auction for $477,650.
VIRGIN lA—ln 1958, Mildred Jeter, a black woman
in Caroline County' (pop. 22,121), dared to break the law
by marrying Richard P. Loving, a white man. The Liv
ings were convicted under a law banning racially mixed
marriages, but a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1967
overturned laws prohibiting interracial unions.
WEST VIRGINIA —Beartown State Park near
Hillsboro (pop. 243) earned its name because residents
claimed that the many cave-like openings in the rocks
made ideal bear dens and the deep narrow crevices
between the large boulders formed a crisscross pattern
resembling the streets of a town.
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