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Deatsville, Alabama
A roadside sign warns drivers along Alabama Highway I-65 North in Deatsville that they need to to church the avoid the wrath of the Devil. The sign was erected by the late W.S. “Billy” Newell in the late 1980’s as a way to “wake up the people,” Newell told NPR in 2005. Newell briefly changed the sign to, “We Love Lucy,” when 2006 gubernatorial candidate Lucy Baxley. Newell died in 2009. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
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A roadside sign warns drivers along Alabama Highway I-65 North in Deatsville that they need to to church the avoid the wrath of the Devil. The sign was erected by the late W.S. “Billy” Newell in the late 1980’s as a way to “wake up the people,” Newell told NPR in 2005. Newell briefly changed the sign to, “We Love Lucy,” when 2006 gubernatorial candidate Lucy Baxley. Newell died in 2009. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
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