Blogs from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America - page 12

Hello! It is the Sunday before I leave for Italy. My flight leaves around 5:30pm Wednesday afternoon! I am very nervous and excited for my trip. There are still many things to do before I leave, including studying more Italian! I will update more later! Ciao! ... read more

Today was another day exploring Atlanta. I started at one of the city’s most famous landmarks. The battle to preserve it actually started the city’s preservation movement in 1975 (compare this to Savannah, where preservation started decades earlier). That landmark is the Fox Theater. Fox Theater The story of the theater starts with the local Shriners’ chapter, Yaarab. By the mid 1920s, they had outgrown their original headquarters, and wanted to build a new one. They acquired land in Atlanta’s Midtown section, which at the time was a streetcar suburb, and had a competition to design the building. The chapter chose an Egyptian and Moorish fantasy by local architects P. Thorton Mary... read more

Today was my first day in Atlanta Georgia. Atlanta is famous in the popular imagination as the city that General Sherman burned to the ground near the end of the Civil War. Local businessmen would rather that people view Atlanta as the city that quickly came back from that experience, and is now the premier city in the entire South. Arch-rival Charlotte (see ) will have something to say about that, of course, but Atlanta does have a reasonable claim. Atlanta History Center The place to explore Atlanta’s history is the Atlanta History Center. It’s located in Buckhead, the city’s wealthiest neighborhood. Significantly, Buckhead is the furthest neighborhood north of downtown. Getting here requires driving past an endless parade of mansions, not all of them the url=http://www.urbandictionary.co... read more

I drove to Atlanta to get Lenny this morning. He flew from Indy and his baggage is already on the way to Manilla. The team met at Bob's house to prep the sound equipment and personal baggage to see if we are going to be able to make it through the weight limits. We leave for the airport at 8:30pm. Pray that all goes smoothly. Dave... read more

Well what can I say. The snow storm certainly arrived. Looking out the window to the courtyard below looks a lot different than yesterday. About 3-4 inches of snow fell which does not sound like much but believe me it is ! The whole state of Georgia has come to a stand still. It’s not much better in Mississippi or Alabama or even Tennessee. This area does get snow flurries and averages less than one inch of snow for the whole of winter. This is one of heaviest dumps of snow on record here. It’s even snowing in South Carolina on the beach ! To give you a sense, when you head outside there are very few cars driving around on a Monday morning, all the schools are closed, and you cannot tell where the road ... read more