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Monday, May 12, 2014

Jungle Jim's International Grocery Store

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    Normally we wouldn’t consider a supermarket an attraction but this isn’t an ordinary supermarket. It’s huge and filled with food import...
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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Boone County Arboretum

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   This park was built in 1994 as a baseball and soccer complex with a walking trail winding around the outskirts of the playing fields. Ov...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Homesteads Tower Museum

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  During the depression years of the 1930s one of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs was a experiment in cooperative living called Subsistence H...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Rhea County Museum - Scopes Monkey Trial

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  Seeking to challenge the Butler Act of 1925, which made teaching human evolution illegal in Tennessee state-funded schools, the ACLU offe...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Cherokee Removal Memorial Park at Blythe Ferry

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   This is a stop along the Trail of Tears, the route followed by the Cherokee who, in 1838, were forced to leave their homes and travel 80...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Chief Vann House Historic Site

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   By the 1830s over 90% of the Cherokee were living in log houses and farming, having adapted to the settled life of white men. A few, lik...
Monday, May 5, 2014

New Echota Historic Site

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   New Echota was the capital of the Cherokee Nation for 13 years, from 1825 until 1838. The Cherokees had adopted a government similar to ...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

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     During the Civil War Atlanta was a major supply center for the Confederate army with train tracks radiating out in all directions. To ...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Gone with the Wind Museum

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  The movie “Gone with the Wind” is, in my opinion, a glamorized portrayal of a ugly and brutal period of our history so I’m not a big fan ...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Marietta Museum of History

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The building that houses the museum was a cotton warehouse built in 1845 and then converted to a hotel in 1855. In 1862 disguised Union sol...
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