Hope you caught Christina Crowe’s article in Black & White this week. If not, here is a glimpse of what she had to say about Red Mountain Park:
Deep within the privet and kudzu that snake through, curl around, and cover everything in their path, relics rest in the land atop Red Mountain. This is the site of longtime mining operations that made up Birmingham’s founding industry. Thousands of men toiled underground here, while their families went to school, worked, and lived aboveground in mining towns established by their employers. For decades this former industrial site sat untouched, left to the wildlife that overtook it and obscured much of the physical legacy of the work that took place here. Now as early as 2012, the city may gain its second new park in as many years with the opening of Red Mountain Park, which is being designed with the goal of bringing that history to light.
Thank you, Christina! Have a great weekend, everyone.
