Alabama State Symbols: Art and Theatre Symbols By Nora Kirkeby Jul 8, 2009, 18:18 PST

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Alabama State Symbols
State Folk Dance, State Historic Theater, State Outdoor Drama, State Outdoor Musical, and State Poet Laureate

Alabama State Folk Dance
Alabama's state folk dance is the square dance. Learn about the history of this dancing form on this helpful website.
Source: Dosado

Alabama State Historic Theater
Learn a little about the history of the amazing Alabama Theatre. You can even learn about the Mighty Wurlitzer, the Alabama's pipe organ.
Source: Alabama Theatre

This portrait of Helen Keller (Helen Keller, half-length portrait, seated, right profile) is courtesy of the Library of Congress

Alabama State Outdoor Drama
Alabama picked the famous Miracle Worker by William Gibson as their outdoor drama. If you're not familiar with this play learn all about it from Wikipedia.
Source: Wikipedia

Alabama State Outdoor Musical
The top of this page has some rather large adds, but scroll past them for an amazing article on The Incident at Looney's Tavern, a musical on a little known facet of the Civil War.
Source: Library of Congress

Alabama State Poet Laureate
This site has excellant information on the position of the state's poet laureate, and all the poet laureates dating back to 1930.
Source: Library of Congress

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