we're about 80 miles north of Mobile - I take it you are on "the eastern shore"?
There's a Fabric by the Pound on 59 in Robertsdale that you'll love if you haven't been there already... the cotton stuff is not sold by the pound by the way.... it's by the yard -
oh and "Lower Alabama" is just that - lower Alabama - not a town - an area.... so you are from LA also