AC Selma Sampler Tour

12/09/2023

New Notes Cards of Black & White photos of the Edmund Pettus Bridge

07/05/2022

Amazon of North America!!!!

I am so glad I live where I do!! BDL

America’s Amazon

"Hidden away in the heart of the Deep South, one of the nation’s greatest wildernesses is being destroyed, bit by bit, in a silent massacre.

There are more species of oaks on a single hillside on the banks of the Alabama River than you can find anywhere else in the world. The Mobile River Basin makes Alabama home to more species of freshwater fish, mussels, snails, turtles and crawfish than any other state. The contest isn’t even close.

For instance, Alabama is home to 97 crawfish species, while California, three times the size of Alabama, has but nine. There are 450 species of freshwater fish in the state, or about one-third of all species known in the entire nation. The system’s turtle population is even more singular. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta estuary system has 18 turtle species, more than any other river delta system in the world — more than the Amazon and more than the Mekong, both extraordinarily biodiverse ecosystems.

You won’t find people chaining themselves to trees to protect this place, or national environmental groups using pictures of it to sign up new members, because few know it exists. And yet, here it is — the Mobile River Basin, one of the richest in the world in terms of the sheer number of species and types of habitat. The major rivers and thousands of creeks feeding into this basin together form the largest inland delta system in the United States, second only to the Mississippi in how much water it dumps into the Gulf of Mexico.

The river system, the fourth-largest in the country in terms of water flow, stretches from the northern edge of Alabama to the Gulf, draining parts of four states, and encompassing hundreds of thousands of acres of forest, from Appalachian hardwood stands to haunted cypress swamps. A dedicated band of locals know it for the incredible hunting and fishing it affords. But few know it for its greatest distinction. That’s a shame, for this is America’s Amazon, far and away the most biodiverse river network in North America."

One of America’s great wildernesses is being destroyed, bit by bit, in a silent massacre https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-29/mobile-river-biodiversity-extinctions-alabama

18/03/2022

Just LOVED touring this group!!!!❤️❤️❤️

17/03/2022

Tonight!
“Something Good
is Coming
out of Selma”
Thursday
3/17
5-7pm
At the 5&Dime
201/203 Broad Street
Selma, Alabama

Afriye WeKandodis is the
Artist of The Month!!!

20/01/2022

10/300

19/01/2022

9/300

17/01/2022

8/300

15/01/2022

7/300
I better pick up the pace if I want to get all before 12/31/22
Only 7 photos and it is 1/15.

13/01/2022

6/300

11/01/2022

10/01/2022

4/300

10/01/2022

1/300,2/300,3/300

16/12/2021

look what just arrived!!!! Mom’s New Book!!!!

12/11/2021

10/11/2021

Good Morning!

07/10/2021

What an incredible day yesterday was! I the opportunity to tour an incredible group of women from Chattanooga, TN. We began with a Collage making “Meet & Greet” to settle in before the tour began the next day. We were welcomed into the Jackson Home where Martin Luther King, Jr lived for 6 months during the Voting Rights Campaign, welcomed by into her space By the River Center for Humanity, picked up lunch which we ate with at the BridgeTenders House her Airbnb and art studio/gallery and welcomed us to his studio too!
We went many other places but I was not so camera ready for those.
It was such a blessing to me to get to show a group of women Selma, AL thru my lens! Thank You SO MUCH Margaret Green for pulling your group together and bringing them to Selma!

26/09/2021

22/09/2021

Feels like the Winds of Change this morning!

10/08/2021

Come SEE Us❤️

07/07/2021

Even on a rainy morning, brings the LIGHT!!! Make sure to drop by 1306 Water Ave when you are in town and meet the wonderful soul who creates all this yumminess!!!!

Afriye Wekandodis

30/06/2021

28/06/2021

Monday Morning! Let’s Do This!!!

04/06/2021

Would Love to tour your group coming to Selma! Please DM me for more information

My first bus tour since covid! Such a Lovely group from Illinois taking in the Sacred and Holy Ground of the Civil and Voting Rights. So grateful for them spending time with me and look forward to them all coming back with their families to stay a few days longer. SO SO VERY MUCH to take in in Selma and the Black Belt of Alabama.

20/02/2021

Black Belt Black History—Dallas County

Bloody Sunday is perhaps the best documented of the three Selma to Montgomery Marches. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights protestors met on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to march from the Queen City to the state capitol. The participants were met by violent police and civilian opposition at the foot of the bridge, called by the county sheriff to halt their progress. Seventeen unarmed marchers were hospitalized, including a young Rep. John Lewis who was left with a skull fracture. Around 50 more were treated for more minor injuries. The day is considered a turning point for the national Civil Rights Movement because of its visibility in Washington. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed later that summer, thanks to the immeasurable sacrifices of those that participated in the three marches.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after a prominent K*K leader and former senator, has become an icon for the Movement. It's also a great vantage point for viewing birds over the Alabama River, like the scissor-tailed flycatcher. However, the importance of embracing the history while you observe can’t be understated. As Rep. Lewis once said in a joint editorial with Rep. Terri Sewell regarding their opposition to renaming the bridge, “We must tell our story fully rather than hide the chapters we wish did not exist for without adversity there can be no redemption.”

If you love cultural and natural history, a visit to Dallas County is the perfect thing for you. Check out AC Selma Sampler Tour and her TourSelma mobile app for a guided tour around the city. Visit Old Cahawba in Orrville for historic relics, a nature trail, canoe access to the Alabama River, and remnants of Black Belt prairie for more varied .

Join us next Friday as we end our Black Belt Black History series with a spotlight on Marengo County.

Scissor-tailed flycatcher 📸: Mike Fernandez

17/02/2021

Pretty Excited about this!!!!

CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN…. Makes sure you space is Clean. I cannot stress that enough. Have a routine where every surface is wiped down at the…

19/10/2020

Thank You SO Much Sam for the shout out!

Ronnie Leet

Last year we finished building Tour Selma. I always wanted to go to Selma and felt like now was the right time to take the journey...

14/10/2020

Bustling Morning in the Queen City

10/10/2020

https://photographicnightsofselma.info/about/

Photographic Nights of Selma Festival [Alabama] The Photographic Nights of Selma festival highlights photography as an art form and joins people from across the globe to share time together in a place with a rich history. Through the power of art, this festival is building bonds of friendship as it....

09/10/2020

Feeling a Little Delta-ish right now, but it is not stopping our tourists coming to walk our Bridge