A Visit to Harper Lee’s Monroeville

By Caroline Kerr Taylor
It was a blistering hot and muggy August day when I arrived in Monroeville, Alabama. After parking on the town square I strolled around the small southern Alabama town, in which the court house still holds the place of prominence. Camellias and magnolias abound. Mockingbirds sing from the branches above. Locals greet each other by name. Small town southern life seems very much alive.
“What brings you to Monroeville?”, I was asked by a shopkeeper. I explained I’d come to visit the home of author Nelle Harper Lee. “We call her Miss Nelle”. “Her sister is Miss Alice”. At t...