moundville is kind of oo portal to the past.hen people starting settling here in the 1700s, not much remained of the mississippi culture. the people that lived here were great artists, warriors, rulers and great tradesmen, too. and the amount of effort it took to build the mounds in this site show how powerful the rulers of this prehistoric community were. ♪ ♪ >>> i'd like to welcome you to temple square in salt lake city. this is the home of america's choir. ♪ the choir was organized in 1847 when the first pioneers came into this valley. it was a small group of people who met in this building, very rustic and they asked for a chi your to perform. but it was in 1949 that welch pioneers came to the valley and they sang in four part harmony. they sang in welsh. and that's when the president decided you need to be the nucleus. it really started in 1947, 1949. they used to sing in a building over in a square that was a temporary building but they called it the tabernacle. that's how the name came. when that was too small, they start

been around for a long time has moundville. but it's a sad truth, as the sheriff says, even here where everybody used to know everybody -- >> it's not that way anymore. so many different people are moving in from around the world. >> trying to escape the crowds. >> well, escape the crowd or running from something. >> yes. and where have you gone, andy griffith? >> mayberry has up and left us. sheriff ken ellis fights real crime nowadays. >> the crime here is the same crime you see in any large city, just a smaller version. >> still, moundville is moundville and neighbors tend to know more of each other's business than they might in tuscaloosa, for example, which can be a bit of a nuisance if you need to keep a secret, especially, for example, if your secret is about murder. to begin with, this thoughtful young woman was just a girl of 17 back in '07 when things started coming apart in the way things do when parents don't talk about it. kelsey mayfield saw that troubled look in her mom's eyes, her mom teresa. >> i could tell she

we think that structured utiliz moundville.re standing at mound b and this is the largest mound in alabama. it contains about 112,000 cubic yards of dirt. and this would have been where the structure for the highest ranking ruler of the highest ranking clan would have been. originally, scientists thought that the mounds were completely built by one basket load of dirt a a time. recent research indicates that the base of the mound and possibly the sides of them were initially built with sod blocks which were then filled in with clay. this would give a lot more stability to the structure as they were building it. we know that periodically, after the mound was built, it would be capped over with different colors of clay so that if you sliced into the mound, it would resemble a layer cake. we're looking at mound b, which is the long low platform mound behind mound b, behind the picnic tables are the remains of an earth lodge, which was partially excavated in 1989. this is a subterranean structure with entrance tunnels built along t

moundville is kind of a portal to the pass.hen people started settling here in the 1700s, not much remained of the mississippian culture. the people that lived here were great artists, warriors, rulers, and great tradesmen, too. and the amount of effort it took to build the mounds in this flight show how powerful the rulers of this prehistoric community were. ♪ ♪ >> i'd like to welcome you to the tabernacle here on temable square in salt lake city. this is home of the tabernacle choir. some might call it america's choir. >> the mormon tabernacle choir was organized in 1847 when the first pioneers came into this valley. it was a small group of people who met in a bauerry type building, very rustic and asked for a choir to perform. but it was in 1849 that welch pioneers came to the valley, and they sang in four part harmy, they sang in welch, that's when president bringing nam young said you need to be nucleus of a great choir. so started then. they used to sing in a building over on the square which was a temporary building but

as it was declining, moundville was on its rise.oundville is really a great spot to have a site that's sort of the center of the capital of the culture, because it falls in between two zones. to the north of auus, the fall line hills start and to the south of us we start getting into the coastal plain. as these regions change, there are a lot of different resources that occur in each of these zones. by sort of straddling the two zones they have access both north and south to these different resources. additionally, moundville is built atop one of the highest bluffs along the black warrior river and a very sharp bend in the river. it could have been built atop this bluff for defensive purposes because you could see people coming in all directions up and down the river. and it's also high enough to be above the 100 year flood mark. moundville was involved in what we call full scale corn agriculture. thousands and thousands of acres of corn are grown down on the first terraces and river bottoms along the river. there are probably betwe

moundville is kind of a portal to the past. when people started settling here in the 1700s, not much remained of the mississippian culture. the people that lived here were great artists, warriors, rulers and great tradesmen, too. the amount of effort it took to build the mounds show how powerful the rulers of this pre-historic community were. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'd like to welcome you to the tabernacle in temp square in salt lake city. this is the home of the mormon tabernacle choir, some might call it america's choir. the mormon tabernacle choir was organized in 1897 when the first pioneers came in this valley, a small group of people that met in a very rustic type building and asked for a choir to perform. it was in 1849 that welch pioneers came to the valley and they sang in four part harmony and they sang in welch. that's when president reagan decided need to be the nucleus of a great choir. it started in 1847 and '49. it was on the square of a temporary building but it was a tabernacle. that's where the name came from, the mormon ta