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Mother Bear, The Water Poets and a Trip to Alabama

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By: gaabi
Posted in: Art

In 1963, four members of the American domestic terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, injuring twenty-two people and killing four young girls. 

Two years later, Welsh artist John Petts raised small donations from people all over Wales to make possible the creation and gifting of a stained glass window for the church , in response to the tragedy and in support of the church and its community.

60 years later, his son Mick Petts joined a group of Carmarthen musicians, The Water Poets, in traveling from Wales to Birmingham, to mark the anniversary of this gift with 16th Street Baptist Church. Andy Edwards of Mother Bear Productions documented their trip.