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Orr Park & Tinglewood: Alabama’s Enchanted Forest of Carved Cedar Trees

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Stone fountain in Orr Park, Montevallo, Alabama, symbolizing beauty emerging from storm damage.

There are days on a road trip when the universe hands you iron, fire, and history… and then follows it up with something delightfully weird just to keep you on your toes. Orr Park was exactly that. We’d already spent the day weaving through Alabama’s industrial past — places like the rugged remains of Sloss … Read more

Little Nadine’s Playhouse Mausoleum

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Small mausoleum known as Little Nadine’s Playhouse at Oakwood Cemetery in Lanett, Alabama, featuring a child-sized structure with a low roof and solemn, story-filled presence.

If you’ve ever wandered into a cemetery expecting silence and stone, you might be surprised by the sound of your own heartbeat quickening. That’s how it felt the first time I stepped up to Little Nadine’s Playhouse Mausoleum in Lanett, Alabama. It looks like something lifted straight out of a childhood storybook: a tiny brick … Read more