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Tidbits 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. SAY NO TO A NURSING HOME One press of our pendant gets you help 24/7. / With Life Alert® you can live alone without ever being alone. /■**—' . Life Alert® Protection is a good alternative to a nursing home. Life Alert HELP NATIONWIDE I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! i Did You Know... What’s New Pussycat? See, Hear & Feel TOM JONES New Album includes CD & DVD! Tom Jones is back again. In this Special Release, you'll get a CO with Ten of his Greatest Hits AND a DVD with all of the songs performed live from The Tom Jones Show. You'll enjoy listening and see What's New Pussycat, She's a Lady. Delilah. Say You ’ll Stay Until Tomorrow, Love Me Tonight and more. (TOMJ-A738) Great Gift Idea! ORDER NOW at: wrww.americanprofile.com/store or CALL FREE (800) 715-6248 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 kk BE'.-, •-*_ FOR A FREE BROCHURE CALL: 1 -800-393-9443 $14.97+5/h marine terminals, can lift cargo weighing up to 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. 1210