Take a history tour
Location: Party with the Past at the Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
Date taken: September 26, 2012
The name Margaret Mitchell House is sort of misleading for the large brick house that sits at the corner of Peachtree Street and 10th Street. Mitchell, a native of Atlanta and author of Gone With the Wind, never owned the house or occupied all of it. Her space in the home was Apt. 1, a tiny, one-bedroom apartment located on the bottom floor and facing Crescent Ave. Mitchell, who lived there with her husband for many years, referred to the building as the “The Dump”. Despite its negative nickname, this was place where Mitchell wrote her best-selling novel. Take a tour of the house and you’ll see the restored apartment and her typewriter (shown here). But the most interesting part of the tour is learning about the author herself — her career as a reporter, her uneasiness with fame, her work to provide scholarship to Morehouse students and the story of her untimely death.
Follow the lights
Location: Flux Night Lantern Parade in Castleberry Hill
Date taken: October 6, 2012
If “flux” can be defined as “the rate of flow of a property per unit area”, then you might say that Flux Night in Atlanta is the amount of art that can be placed in one neighborhood in one night. Venture over to the historic Castleberry Hill warehouse district on this annual night and follow the lights … or the crowd (which seems to get bigger each year). Wherever you find light and sound, you’ll probably find art. From street performers to photography exhibits to sound installations to the dancers of gloATL, you’ll find yourself wondering what’s around each street corner.
Walk and talk about art
Location: Art on the Atlanta BeltLine in Reynoldstown
Date taken: July 29, 2012
Read a storybook
Location: Decatur Education Foundation tent at the 2012 Decatur Book Festival
Date taken: September 2, 2012
Go jump in a lake
Location: Chickamauga Lake
Date taken: August 23, 2012
Unfortunately, there is no big, beautiful body of water in Atlanta. For those of us who love the water, Piedmont Park’s Lake Clara Meer isn’t quite enough. So, take a weekend trip or a day trip to one of these larger lakes, all within a few hours of the city:
Chickamauga Lake | Lake Lanier | Lake Allatoona | Lake Oconee | Jackson Lake| Lake Hartwell
Lake Keowee | Clarks Hill Lake | Lake Burton | Lake Nottely
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