Lou and Davey have other things to do
and they have already seen what I'm on the way to see so today I'm
driving into Atlanta on my own.
I drive to the Martin Luther King Jr.
Historical Site Visitor Center parking lot which is totally packed.
People are double and triple parked. Based on the fact that I see
dressed up people walking around with palms in their hands, I realize
that it is Palm Sunday. Part of the Historical Site includes a
couple of churches which are still having services, hence the parking
problems.
I enjoyed the MLK site a lot. Watched
the movie which was all about MLK's birth home and how he grew up in
the Sweet Auburn area of Atlanta. The museum area was one of the
best laid out historical site museums that I have seen and I've seen
a lot of them. There were six circular areas which displayed
different parts of MLK's life. What made each of these areas so
interesting is that there was video of people of the time talking
about MLK interspersed with MLK speaking either in interviews or
giving us parts of his speeches. What a powerful orator he was and
what a great message he had.
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| Caisson that carried MLK's casket. Ada and Belle were the mules that pulled the caisson |
After the visitor center, I headed to
Ebenezer Baptist Church where MLK preached but as I said before,
services were going on and I didn't feel like I should go in. MLK
and Coretta Scott King's tombs are on the property and it was really
a beautiful tomb.
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| The Tomb |
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| The location - see the tomb way down at the other end of the pool? |
I walked over to the birth home and
walked around the neighborhood, but it was probably the least
favorite part of the site for me. Just a working class neighborhood.
On to the Jimmy Carter Presidential
Library and Museum. Parking was much better here. The grounds were
beautiful. Spring is definitely here.
The museum was a nice and shiny
building. Crisp and clean. It followed President's career from
childhood, through his navy and his presidential career followed by
his biggest contributions – his post-presidential life.
I know a lot of people don't care for
President Carter but I admire him an awful lot mostly because he has
a moral compass and has always seemed to be true to it. The amount
of good that he has done in his life makes me feel like maybe I
should figure out some way to give back (besides, of course, spreading joy with
my sparkling personality)
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| Anybody that can sing with Willie must be cool |
Fun Fact: Jimmy Carter graduated 60th
out of 840 in the Naval Academy.
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