Welcome to New Orleans! At 6 pm, meet your Tour Director and travelling companions for a welcome drink.
NEW ORLEANS: City sightseeing with Local Guide this morning, followed by free time for lunch.
WAVELAND: Visit the Ground Zero Hurricane Museum.
BAY ST. LOUIS: Free time.
BILOXI: Free time this afternoon before a regional dinner at a local restaurant. (B/D)
YourChoice Excursions include one of the following activities of your choice:
Afternoon sightseeing includes a guided tour of Jefferson Davis' home and presidential library, Beauvoir. Free time this evening. (B)
MONROEVILLE: Sightseeing in the hometown of authors Truman Capote and Harper Lee includes the Old Courthouse Museum in the "Literary Capital of Alabama." Learn how Monroeville served as the inspiration for Lee's 1961 Pulitzer-Prize-winning 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' examining the historical prejudice of the deep South and loosely based on the life of the author's father-a state legislator and county lawyer who defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper. Free time this afternoon.
MONTGOMERY: Free time this evening. (B)
MONTGOMERY: The capital of Alabama, Montgomery is historic as an important place in the fight for voting rights, with the Alabama State Capitol
Building having served as the ending point of the third march for voting rights from Selma. See the sights with a Local Guide this morning, including the State Capitol Building, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the Civil Rights Memorial, and the Rosa Parks Museum. Take a docent-led tour of the courthouse where Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. first legalized the desegregation of buses in 1956 and ruled the march from Selma was a legal protest to be allowed in 1965 (based on availability).
Next, enjoy true Southern comfort food with lunch at Martha's Place born of one woman's dream to overcome personal adversity and give back to others in her native Montgomery. Feed your soul with authentic, made-from-scratch Southern specialties-from fried chicken to fried green tomatoes, to black-eyed peas and pecan pie. Free time this evening.
YourChoice Excursions include one of the following activities of your choice:
MONTGOMERY: Travel the National Historic Trail of 1966 between Montgomery and Selma, which served as the route of Dr. Martin Luther King's 1965 Voting Rights March.
Visit the historic Brown Chapel A.M. E Church and walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge—a National Historic Landmark and site of the infamous “Bloody Sunday”-where over 600 non-violent marchers, led by the late Freedom Rider and Congressional Representative John Lewis, were brutally attacked by police while attempting to cross the bridge.
BIRMINGHAM: Free time this afternoon before continuing to Muscle Shoals.
FLORENCE (MUSCLE SHOALS): Free time this evening. (B)
FLORENCE (MUSCLE SHOALS): Join in a guided sightseeing tour of Florence—“the gem of the South”—and learn about the “Muscle Shoals Sound” produced here since the 1960s with state-of-the-art recording studios for iconic artists and producers. See the old town and the home of W.C. Handy—the “Father of the Blues.” See the original Muscle Shoals Sound Studios building, and tour the Alabama Music Hall of Fame with a docent. Enjoy free time this afternoon.
YourChoice Excursions include one of the following activities of your choice:
Farewell dinner this evening featuring live music. (B/D)
This morning, travel to Nashville International Airport or the Westin Hotel Downtown. Please schedule departing flights after 1pm. (B)
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