Make the Literary Pilgrimage to Monroeville

This small town produced two of American literature’s giants, who happened to be childhood next-door friends: Harper Lee, who turned it into the Maycomb of To Kill a Mockingbird, and Truman Capote, who spent much of his childhood here. The old courthouse — the model for the novel’s courtroom — is now a museum, and each spring locals stage a production of Mockingbird on the courthouse lawn and inside that very courtroom.