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EcoFocus Film Festival in Athens, Ga., on October 23-26, is designed to promoted awareness on environmental issues through the big screen. The festival features 12 environmental films and 25 environmental short films
And while I’m talking about the northeast Georgia area, the 9th Annual Fall Wine Fest Fundraiser in Watkinsville is scheduled for October 26. […]
“The Mississippi River, derived from the old Ojibwe word misi-ziibi meaning ‘great river’ (gichi-ziibi ‘big river’ at its headwaters), is the second-longest named river in North America, with a length of 2320 miles (3733 km) from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. The longest named river in North America is its tributary, the […]
Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tenn., but raised in the Mississippi Delta. He is co-owner of the Madidi restaurant and the Ground Zero blues club, both in Clarksdale (pop. 20,645). So now you know!
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In the Mississippi city of Natchez, deep among forest trees dripping with Spanish moss, stands an unfinished “Oriental Villa” known as Longwood. Planned in 1859 for cotton-nabob Dr. Haller Nutt by Philadelphia’s fashionable architect, Samuel Sloan, this eight-sided castle was begun in 1860. Work halted abruptly in 1861, when the Confederate bugles echoed across the […]
“ca. 1860-1861. Lower Woodville Rd. The grandest octagonal house in America. Superb example of mid-19th century Oriental style. Designed for Haller and Julia Nutt, it retains original furnishings. Finial atop dome was reconstructed in 1993 by the Pilgrimage Garden Club. National Historic Landmark.”
Now this is my kind of summer house. ;)
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