After seven years of climbing into attics, domes, towers and steeples, Thomas Kaufmann emerges with a story of Alabama Bells that encapsulates the history of the state itself.
They sounded the death knell for countless parishioners during the havoc of the Civil War, watched over the Freedom Riders and shook from the blast of the.
They called Alabamians to worship, celebrated weddings and tolled at funerals.
These bells--some dormant, others pealing still--were forged by the Reveres in Boston.
After seven years of climbing into attics, domes, towers and steeples, Thomas Kaufmann emerges with a story of Alabama Bells that encapsulates the history of the state itself