On the way home from the zoo, we decided to stop and see Vulcan Park. Here's Vulcan...
He's a ridiculously big statue that overlooks Birmingham. You can buy a ticket to go up to the top and lookout....
Do you see the figures in the picture? Ella, Layton, Mimi, and Mama Kaye were looking down at Hadley and me. Hadley is not too fond of heights and immediately wanted to come back down after the elevator ride to the top. I came down a gazillion stairs with her. The elevator is glass by the way. I thought she was going to have a heart attack.
Inside the museum at Vulcan park, there is a cast of Vulcan's foot. Here are all three of the children on his foot. Clearly, he's a big fellow. In fact, Vulcan is the largest cast iron statue in the world.
The whole museum was very interesting. One of the things I found really interesting is that Birmingham was considered to be hit harder by the Great Depression than any other city in the country. 100,000 of the 108,000 laborers had no job...that's a 93% unemployment rate.
