Montgomery, AL is lucky to be home to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. The area is beautiful with numerous ponds and walking trails. On one side there is a large art gallery with a great cafe inside that looks over a large pond always full of ducks and swans. Just last year, the gallery hosted a tour of French impressionists paintings. Pieces of art included works from the Louvre and artists such as Manet (not to be mistaken with the famous Monet) and Renoir. On the other side is the theatre. It constantly hosts well-known plays, now Romeo and Juliet and the production of one my favorite books, The Count of Monte Cristo. The plays are held in a very small theatre called the octagon, similar to the university's Galloway Theatre.
I love to go on picknicks there or walk my dog Baxter when the weather is nice. It is definitely somewhere everyone should visit, if not for a play or tour of the gallery's art, at least for the beauty of grounds.
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Yeah I definatly take it for granted. We went there all the time in high school cause it was just across the street from school but I never really though about how special it was until I came up here and realized there aren't places like that everywhere.
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