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Sweet Home Alabama: New Tags for Old

Posted: Jan 30, 2009

 

Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

----"Sweet Home Alabama" Lynyrd Skynyrd Band

A brand new license plate featuring a pastel beach scene and bearing the words “Sweet Home Alabama” is now available in the state of Alabama. The new tag will replace the old “Stars Fell on Alabama” tag which has been around since 2002.

After “New York, New York” and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” “Sweet Home Alabama” recorded in 1974 by southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd is the third most played song identifying a destination.

Pristine beaches have long been one of Alabama’s most valuable and least known treasures, but now these jewels have been discovered. Baldwin and Mobile counties, both of which front on the Gulf of Mexico, are responsible for over 30 percent of Alabama's $9.8 billion tourism revenue. Since the year 2000, Baldwin County, as a whole, has experienced the fastest rate of population growth in the state, second only to Shelby County.

Once known as the Redneck Riviera, the area around Gulf Shores and Orange Beach in Baldwin County is now a prestigious tourist destination featuring shimmering beaches, elegant condominiums, upscale hotels, and excellent dining. Gulf Shores is now competitive with Panama City and Destin, Florida, as a popular vacation venue. The Gulf Shores Golf Association, an affiliate of courses in southwest Alabama, can help arrange vacations that include world-class golf, sugar-white beaches, and charter fishing expeditions. The average spring temperature on the gulf coast is 73 and the average winter temp is 63. Summer averages 87 degrees, the ideal temperature for sunbathing and water sports, not to mention year round golf.

The success of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, brain child of financial guru and CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama Dr. David Bronner, has catapulted Alabama to one of the top golf destinations in the world. There are two RTJ courses in the gulf coast area: Lakewood (54 holes) at Point Clear in Baldwin County and Magnolia Grove (36 holes) in Mobile County. There is also a public golf course at Gulf Shores State Park.

I don’t live on the gulf coast. I live in the picturesque Tennessee Valley in northwest Alabama about thirty miles from Muscle Shoals. From the rivers of the Tennessee Valley to the beaches of the gulf coast, Alabama definitely has it all, and it is my very own home, sweet home.

I think I’ll just let Lynryd Skynyrd tell you about it:

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you.

We at Swampland extend our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Lynyrd Skynyrd band member Billy Powell who died on January 28.

---Penne J. Laubenthal
 

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