Yeeeeeeeah, I’ve never really done the whole blogging thing so this should be kinda interesting. This being my first post I guess I’ll start with the intro. I’m Valerian Curd (more commonly known as “V”) and I work with the Department of Safety here at Messiah. For those of you who might be wondering why you haven’t seen me around campus, I work in the evening so it’s usually a good thing if we haven’t crossed paths. 😉 If you have any more questions feel free to comment or something and we’ll work on that. I’m also on facebook.
Moving on though…
…this blog is about the trip and not me. And a good place to start with could be the tentative schedule, which looks like this:
June 10, 2011 – Friday
– Our crew leaves Grantham and heads to Beaver Falls, PA, where we will meet up with Todd Allen and the rest of the group going on the bus trip tomorrow.
June 11, 2011 – Saturday
– The bus leaves Beaver Falls at 6am for Greensboro, North Carolina…on the agenda for the day:
- International Civil Rights Center & Museum
- North Carolina A&T
June 12, 2011 – Sunday
– At 8am we depart for Atlanta, Georgia with the following stops:
- MLK Center
- Speaker: Dr. Glenn Eskew
- Speaker: Mrs. Juanita Abernathy
– We then head for Albany, GA to spend the night.
June 13, 2011 – Monday
– Leave the hotel to check out Albany:
- Charles Sherrod Civil Rights Park
- Albany Civil Rights Institute
– Hit the road again, this time heading for Montgomery, Alabama:
- Civil Rights Memorial & Visitor’s Center
June 14, 2011 – Tuesday
– Leave at 8am for Selma, Alabama to check out the area:
- Lowndes County Interpretive Center
- Speaker: Rev. Frederick Reese
- Tour with Ms. Joanne Bland (Journeys For The Soul)
– Head to Marion, Alabama to visit:
- Zion United Methodist Church
- Perry County Jail
- Jimmie Lee Jackson Gravesite
- National Voting Rights Museum & Institute
– Backtrack to Montgomery:
- Edmund Pettus Bridge
- Viola Liuzzo Memorial
- Dinner with Mr. Arlam Carr
June 15, 2011 – Wednesday
– Check out some more Montgomery spots:
- Carr Home
- Dexter Parsonage
- Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
- Holt Street Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church
- Rosa Parks Museum
– We then leave for Birmingham, Alabama:
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Meet Mr. Chris McNair at McNair Studios
June 16, 2011 – Thursday
– Leave at 8am for Memphis, Tennessee for the following destinations:
- Stax Museum of American Soul Music
- National Civil Rights Museum
- Speaker: Rev. Samuel “Billy” Kyles
- Mason Temple
June 17, 2011 – Friday
– Next up: Little Rock, Arkansas:
- Little Rock 9 Visitor’s Center
– Head to Nashville, Tennessee for the night
June 18, 2011 – Saturday
– Tour Nashville:
- Meet Mr. Rip Patton at the Civil Rights Room/Nashville Public Library
- Speaker: Mr. Kwame Lillard
- Freedom Riders Celebration at the Nashville Public Library
– Hit the road and spend the night in Cincinnati, Ohio
June 19, 2011 – Sunday
– Head for Canton, Ohio:
- Lunch with Dr. Renee Powell
– Wrap up by leaving for and arriving in Beaver Falls, PA around 4:30pm
Yeah, so that was a little longer than I was thinking, but now ya got it. I’m looking forward to it…should be a pretty rich experience. I’ll catch y’all later!
-V