Our part begins around 33:00 on the show. Enjoy! The interview is found here: http://dysonshow.org/?p=4834
& here's a funny story about Michellay and "southernness" from the trip.
When we rode through Selma, we marched in silence across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to reflect on the courage and determination of 50 mile march to Montgomery. After we crossed the bridge, everyone looked at the murals, memorials, and other plaques that honored leaders of the movement.
One memorial had a series of large stones in a pool of water, and I saw Michellay and Charles Reed looking at the water in disbelief. I looked down, saw tadpoles swimming around and didn't think anything more about it. A few more moments passed, and I saw Charles and Michellay laughing again at the tadpoles.
While thinking to myself that surely everyone has seen tadpoles, I turned and lightheartedly asked, "Ya'll haven't seen tadpoles before?" They both burst into laughter and told me of course not--they are city people.
Since I grew up with tadpoles all over the place--at the puddles by the soccer fields, in the stream behind my house, in the river at Heardmont Park--seeing them wasn't out of the ordinary at all. As I know now, not everyone had the joy of playing with tadpoles during their childhood, and this realization makes much more appreciative of the uniqueness of the southern thing.
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| Lining up to cross the bridge. Photo by Esther. |
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| On the bridge. Photo by Rachael |
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| The Alabama River. Photo by Rachael |
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