Conway Featured on Smiths Station, Alabama Mural

One of my goals for this blog is to shine a light on Conway-related places to visit, and today's travel destination is a very recent addition to the map...

For a short time in the early 1950s Conway lived in the small eastern Alabama town of Smiths Station with the Carden family. (Hugh Carden would go on to become Conway's longtime business manager and co-executor of his estate.) He spent his time leading youth revivals in church and even delivered the invocation at the Smiths Station High School’s 1951 Junior-Senior Banquet.

Conway with Mattie Carden, Opelika Observer

There's an exhibit dedicated to Conway at the Historic Jones Store Museum, and this spring he was included on an interactive mural on the side of Rainbow Foods located at 2461 County Road 430.

The mural was painted by John Christian, founder of the Go Georgia Arts Mural Trail, and features a likeness of Conway from the cover of his Twitty/This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me album.

Has anyone visited the Smiths Station mural or museum? I would love to see pictures of what's in the exhibit!

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