Episode 231: On Dexter Avenue

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Music

• That Moment by Antonymes

• Nocturne by Sololi

• Watching it Unfold by Lawrence English

Notes

• You can access the self-produced history of the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the UDC here.

• The Alabama Encyclopedia site • does a nice job with some of this stuff.

• You might want to check out Caroline Janney's book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Mermorial Associations and the Lost Cause.

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