📽 /🎵 To all our Noccalula Falls lovers—we now have a brand-new live camera

[rick4bama]

Bellevue Tower



Noccalula Falls:

 

[TerryP]

Noccalula Falls:

What's this supposed to be?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

What's this supposed to be?

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Statue of a young Cherokee gal named Noccalula who supposedly jumped to her death there instead of marrying a man her father set her up tpo marry. Not sure about these days, but if you attended an over the mountain elementary school in Birmingham back in the day, Noccalula Falls was a field trip staaple.

 

[TerryP]

Statue of a young Cherokee gal named Noccalula who supposedly jumped to her death there instead of marrying a man her father set her up tpo marry. Not sure about these days, but if you attended an over the mountain elementary school in Birmingham back in the day, Noccalula Falls was a field trip staaple.

Ah, now that you mention the story...

It certainly wasn't a field trip for kids growing up in Huntsville, but I've heard the story before. It doesn't sound like something I'd learn in NC at UA.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

What's this supposed to be?

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Dude, do you not Alabama?

 

[TerryP]

Dude, do you not Alabama?

What do you mean?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

What do you mean?

Alabama history. Alabama trivia. Alabama locales. Alabama industry, finance, agriculture, aquaculture, land, air, sea, rivers, lakes, holes in the ground, houses, cemeteries, restaurants, hotels/motels/no-tells, heroes, heroines, scofflaws and scalawags...

 

[TerryP]

Alabama history. Alabama trivia. Alabama locales. Alabama industry, finance, agriculture, aquaculture, land, air, sea, rivers, lakes, holes in the ground, houses, cemeteries, restaurants, hotels/motels/no-tells, heroes, heroines, scofflaws and scalawags...

No. I didn't. (One semester we delved into a little Alabama history but it was centered on the geographical changes.) It wasn't feasible in my childhood. As soon as I graduated I moved out of state. When I returned to Alabama it was school, work, school, work, rinse, repeat. Hell, during that space of "downtime" everyone gets each day? I had my bars and restaurants...where I would read for school.

Growing up 99% of the time I was in Huntsville on weekdays, Athens on the weekends. My grandparents were share croppers with mom and her siblings working right there along with them. The little surveys posted occasionally "how many of these have you done?" When it comes to hiking though mountains, fields, wading creeks, all that stuff we loved as a kid? The family was big so I had that all through a few counties in N Alabama. But, as a kid? I was never exposed these things you mentioned.

I lived in Tuscaloosa for a little under a decade. As I recall, only two of those years were ones where I had weekends off that afforded that kind of travel. Let's reference the proceeding paragraph and remember, while was was undergrad those two years I was in my mid-20's. I went down to Foley more than anywhere on those weekends. Ran over to Atlants several times. The casinos.

It's interesting, a huge coincidence, and quite ironic you ask this question today. Last night I ran across one of those videos on YouTube with a couple "touring" an area and commenting. I don't know what to call the genre. I was planning on posting the video because it's both stupidly outrageous at times: though true. (IE: The guy had a bite of the Blue Crab Bisque at Magnolia's and took the facial reaction bit over the top. BUT, I said "though true" because it's that good.)

As they were going through this area I realized I'd been everywhere they were. A good number of them once. I saw a lot on my little jaunts that were noted, "I need to read about that." I never have. Hell, I've entertained the idea of being a tour guide on a carriage. As much as I don't like being around them, it would be fun talking to people about the history. (I'd make some coin. If the "no tax on tips" thing ... eheh.)

 

[It Takes Eleven]

No. I didn't. (One semester we delved into a little Alabama history but it was centered on the geographical changes.) It wasn't feasible in my childhood. As soon as I graduated I moved out of state. When I returned to Alabama it was school, work, school, work, rinse, repeat. Hell, during that space of "downtime" everyone gets each day? I had my bars and restaurants...where I would read for school.

Growing up 99% of the time I was in Huntsville on weekdays, Athens on the weekends. My grandparents were share croppers with mom and her siblings working right there along with them. The little surveys posted occasionally "how many of these have you done?" When it comes to hiking though mountains, fields, wading creeks, all that stuff we loved as a kid? The family was big so I had that all through a few counties in N Alabama. But, as a kid? I was never exposed these things you mentioned.

I lived in Tuscaloosa for a little under a decade. As I recall, only two of those years were ones where I had weekends off that afforded that kind of travel. Let's reference the proceeding paragraph and remember, while was was undergrad those two years I was in my mid-20's. I went down to Foley more than anywhere on those weekends. Ran over to Atlants several times. The casinos.

It's interesting, a huge coincidence, and quite ironic you ask this question today. Last night I ran across one of those videos on YouTube with a couple "touring" an area and commenting. I don't know what to call the genre. I was planning on posting the video because it's both stupidly outrageous at times: though true. (IE: The guy had a bite of the Blue Crab Bisque at Magnolia's and took the facial reaction bit over the top. BUT, I said "though true" because it's that good.)

As they were going through this area I realized I'd been everywhere they were. A good number of them once. I saw a lot on my little jaunts that were noted, "I need to read about that." I never have. Hell, I've entertained the idea of being a tour guide on a carriage. As much as I don't like being around them, it would be fun talking to people about the history. (I'd make some coin. If the "no tax on tips" thing ... eheh.)

Very little - almost none - of my education of the state was formal education. I had Alabama history in the fourth grade like most kids did in the 50's through 70's, with Know Alabama being the approved, but debated, text.

Beyond that, it's just been a personal point of interest to learn about the state. I'm no expert, but I've read a good bit on a number of topics relevant to the state, its rivers and lakes to the greatest extent. Harvey Jackson - funded by The Southern Company on a couple of his books - has been the best source of knowledge specific to the waterways.

I rounded up a copy of Know Alabama several years, this one has been taken or surplused from the Sheffield Public Library and the Muscle Shoals Regional LIbrary, last checkout on the card was 1987.

 

[footballer]

I watched this video a couple weeks ago. Learned some new things.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Another good benefit of the Noccalula Fall cam... some lucky viewer(s) will have a good look the next time someone goes over the falls in a kayak.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Another good benefit of the Noccalula Fall cam... some lucky viewer(s) will have a good look the next time someone goes over the falls in a kayak.

That would make it a fail cam.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

That would make it a fail cam.

If it was me it would be Faces of Death cam. Others have been successful.