Fort Payne is the official sock capital of the world.
It is also the hometown of the band Alabama.
My best friend and I were on our way home from Scottsboro and stopped in Fort Payne just to get our picture by the sock capital sign in our new socks, purchased at the Fort Payne Wal-Mart, where we had just been looking for members of Alabama. We heard a rumor they hung out there.
I’m not going to lie, had we not been slightly bored we probably wouldn’t have stopped. But it was still a memorable excursion.