< Monroeville Alabama >
A trip to Monroeville is a wonderful
thing for a fan of To Kill a Mockingbird. The links below can aid the
most mired of arm-chair pilgrims, but don't put off a trip too long! It is
a special experience to walk the soft wooden floors of the Old Courthouse, to
sit in the chair at the front and declaim Mayella Ewell's lines, (your
recitation will echo Colin Wilcox's performance as Mayella in the film
adaptation; that's just fine) and to climb the stairs to the balcony and
see for your quiet comforted self the view that Scout and Jem and Dill had of the trial of
Tom Robinson.
There is a souvenir shop in the Old Courthouse. Some items are expensive
for what they are. Bring a generous wallet if it will be important to you
to have a poster for the play, a paper fan, a postcard, or a T-Shirt. The
wisest buy is a copy of the Winter 1994 Alabama Law Review; it is
sold for $20 and has seven articles on Mockingbird.
Bring sunglasses if you plan to look at the garish murals depicting scenes
from Mockingbird.
The Monroeville Area Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
Journal
The Monroe County Heritage
Museums
Monroeville Alabama
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It is a queer thing to sit on a picnic table at Mel's Dairy Dream and feel peace and the contentment of a good burger. One expects to feel irrational cold anger or sadness because this was the site of the Lee house, and now it sells food through a window, but the Lee house was gone many many years
ago, and not torn down in any fit of civic stupidity. The Faulk property,
now a grassy lot, contains clues to the past if you know what to look for,
and the burgers at Mel's are good.