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Sweet Home Alabama - 19th century homes in Alabama

The nineteenth-century homes featured in this program stand as monuments to a forgotten way of life that shaped the way we live today. Ranging from simple dogtrot cabins to elegant mansions, twenty rural and small-town homes are featured in short essays on topics such as architectural styles, the people who built them, or the people who care for them now. SHOW ME NOW

There’s so much of this fast-growing vine in the Southeastern U.S., you might think it was a native plant. Actually, it took a lot of hard work to help kudzu spread so widely and now that it covers over seven million acres, there are a lot of people working hard to get rid of it! But kudzu is used in ways which might surprise you.SHOW ME NOW