I had never been to the original Dreamland in Tuscaloosa, so before we went to Kentuck, Av drove us over.
There are other Dreamlands – Birmingham, Huntsville, Northport, Mobile, Montgomery – and now there are two in Georgia (Peachtree Corners and Roswell)! The ones in other locations serve chicken and sides – this original Dreamland location in Tuscaloosa serves just ribs and bread, Golden Flake chips, and ‘nana puddin.
The King definitely would have liked Dreamland.
When the football season started, we heard on the radio broadcasts that Doe’s Eat Place was going to be in Tuscaloosa (Doe’s was sponsoring some play, or something….like how Verizon does the ‘best call’….something like that).
Av and I just looked at each other the first time we heard that – we were like….Doe’s….in T-town?….can it be?
Well, sure enough, there *is* going to be a Doe’s Eat Place in Tuscaloosa.
I went to Doe’s website, and I knew there was one in Little Rock and Lafayette, but there are others now – in College Station, Tulsa, Hot Springs, Fayette, Fort Smith, and Bentonville.
We didn’t go into the one in Lafayette when we were there in August, but I saw when we drove by that they had white tablecloths….
At the *original* Doe’s, you eat in ancient chairs at ancient rickety tables, you order from memory – we always split a porterhouse, Av gets fries, and we share tamales. As you walk in the door, the steaks are cooking *right there next to you*, if you go in the room just past the front entrance, the waitresses are making salads *right next to you*.
The steaks are amazing (everything is amazing), everybody is super-nice, and everybody talks about football – what more could a person ask for? If G-d told you an hour before you were going to die that you could go anywhere you wanted for a final meal, you’d say “first, can I have more than an hour? Because I need to get over to Doe’s.”
Anyway. That’s my love sonnet to Doe’s.
We’ll be in Greenville later this month or in early November, so I’ll take some pics and post them then.
So we finally got to Kentuck! Yay! Here are pics:
This is Holden McCurry‘s booth – his tower sculptures are really great.
This booth above was Jack Beverland. He does these bumpy pieces that glow in the dark. This one is of cotton pickers.
The pic above and the two below are the work of Jimmy Descant. We are always totally wowed by his art.
Below: microphone lamp. Cool.
This pic above and the couple below are of Myrtice West and her art – she is just *amazing*. A lot of her art includes Jesus, but we found and bought one of Moses on Mt. Sinai receiving the ten commandments (mitzvot). I am just so enamored with her art.
This pic above is from Tom Haney‘s booth. You *have* to go to his website to see his automated pieces.
This pic above is of Ab the Flagman’s booth.
This pic above is of the Project Alabama booth (I heart Project Alabama – they were nominated for the 2005 Fashion Design Award from New York’s Cooper-Hewitt museum, named finalists for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award, and UPS sponsored their first-ever runway show this year), but thing is – see that dress that the people above are looking at? – it’s $16000. And it seemed like every person that left that booth turned to the person they were with as if to say, “did you see that dress? yes. $16000.”
This pic above is of a piece that we almost bought. It’s by Kreg Yingst, and it’s this great piece about Hank Williams. Oh, I wanted that one.
Art car (and art) by Chris Hubbard
Yvonne Wells and her quilts
Av bought a piece from Lonnie Holley a couple of years ago, and Lonnie stood there for five or ten minutes turning it over and telling Av all the symbolism of the piece. He’s a total genius.
Above, York Show Prints – we got one print for a show that Kathryn Tucker Windham did, and another that had Sambo Mockbee’s “proceed and be bold” statement on it that had been done for the Rural Studio. When we bought the prints, we were invited to make our own print on the machine. Oh – one more thing – YeeHaw Industries from Chattanooga was at Kentuck, and we got four small pieces of theirs. I’ll take pics and post those later. We had a wonderful time!