Governor Don Siegelman shaking hands with children at the annual turkey presentation from Bates Turkey Farm.
Each year at Thanksgiving, Bill Bates of Bates Turkey Farm in Fort Deposit, Alabama, presents the governor with a live turkey. The bird always receives a "pardon." Bates began this tradition in 1948. This photograph has been misfiled in a folder labeled, "Governor's inaugurati...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/3600 |
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Captain A. C. Ross of the Salvation Army in Montgomery, Alabama, receiving a live turkey from Bill Bates of the Bates Turkey Farm in Fort Deposit.
by: Scott, John E., Montgomery, Alabama