Ten years ago, Millie Lee Dulaney fulfilled her mother’s last request and buried her in Alabama red dirt in the overgrown Wilcox County cemetery where her mother’s mother and sister lay.As Dulaney looked around at the weeds around the graves of her ancestors, she knelt down and gathered some of that red clay and put it in a heart-shaped crystal bowl that she would take with her back to the West Coast. The act was the beginning of a quest that eventually brought her back home to Alabama after most of a lifetime spent away. Read More