Outside the Alabama Theater

Stowe Story Labs’ David Pope outside the Alabama Theater in Birmingham.

David Rocchio

David Rocchio

I have not spent much time in the South, and nearly no time in the Deep South. This is partly due to the physics of family (sister in Italy, wife from England) and partly due to interest (mountains, cold oceans, dry air, no snakes).

What we learn of a place too comes to us through the tools of the modern world — movies, TV, news, Snapchat. I certainly bear a bias because of that. The Deep South felt farther away to me than New Zealand. No more.

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