I grew up in Birmingham and worked at Lister Hill Library for ten years before moving to the Pacific Northwest. There is certainly a dichotomy present in the Southern psyche. For all that Lister Hill did during his long career, the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences is an excellent resource for the medical center and it has an excellent director guiding it. As Scott relates in the previous comment about his encounter with the mayor of Belfast, the essence of the area, especially Kelly Ingram Park, and the 16th Street Baptist church, is truly sacred ground. Living in an environment fueled in the past by racism, prejudice, and violence, possibly makes us all kindred spirits who lived through it.