2008 Official Georgia Travel Guide

ATLANTA METRO land of her forebears around Jonesboro. Known as the “home” of Gone With the Wind, Jonesboro also boasts the world’s largest permanent GWTW exhibit at The Road to Tara Museum. The Marietta Gone With the Wind Museum: Scarlett on the Square features rare movie and book memorabilia such as premiere programs and publicity books, original costumes and foreign film posters. The downtown Atlanta apartment building in which the author penned GWTW is now home to the Margaret Mitchell House & Museum, and she is buried in the city’s Historic Oakland Cemetery. nature combination of classic food and rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia. Call of the Wild Zoo Atlanta, in historic Grant Park, is home to some of the world’s farthestflung species, from large mammals like African elephants, zebras and giraffes to tiny amphibians, reptiles and exotic birds. Warthogs and meerkats are two of the zoo’s newest inhabitants. Just Ranch in Lilburn offers visitors a chance to get up close and personal with more than 600 types of wildlife indigenous to Georgia, while tours of Noah’s Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center in Locust Grove provide insight into the process of lovingly rehabilitating sick, abused and abandoned animals. And the city is still abuzz about the spectacular Georgia Aquarium, now in its third successful year. Hands-on exhibits, innovative viewing options and a huge variety of captivating creatures reel in visitors Zoo Atlanta GDEcD outside the city, the Yellow River Game Center Stage Metro Atlanta’s performing arts scene continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Well-known downtown names include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet and the Center for Puppetry Arts. Actor’s Express, located in the historic King Plow Arts Center, is another rising star, introducing fresh, edgy performances from both emerging and established artists. Among the region’s higher learning institutions, Clayton State University’s Spivey Hall, Georgia State University’s Rialto Center for the Arts JULIE JAMERSON year-round. Historic Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta Buford and Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts perennially book topnotch acts. Other per- Tastes of the Town Stock up on fresh produce at the Atlanta State Farmers Market and Alpharetta Acworth Kennesaw 75 Marietta Roswell Duluth Sugar Hill Suwanee Dacula forming arts pillars Dunwoody Norcross 85 Sandy Georgia Grown Visitors Center and include ART Station in Lawrenceville Springs Doraville Smyrna Gift Shop in Forest Park. Just south Stone Mountain, Dad’s Powder Lilburn Chamblee Loganville Springs Tucker of Atlanta, this huge open-air marGarage in Inman Park, 285 Austell Stone Snellville 285 ket features acres of stalls PushPush Theater in Decatur Mountain Mableton Lithia Scottdale brimming with the very and the Ballethnic Dance Springs Atlanta Decatur Lithonia best of the state’s vast Company in East Point. 20 Douglasville 20 East Point agricultural bounty. Dine Hapeville College Park Conley on 11th-century vittles at Around Forest 675 Ellenwood Lawrenceville’s Medieval the Union City Park Morrow Fairburn Times, a thrilling dinner Square Riverdale Stockbridge theater featuring jousting There are plenty Palmetto Jonesboro Tyrone knights, swooning of places that 85 75 McDonough princesses and foster small-town Fayetteville majestic horses. Newnan Peachtree City Sharpsburg For more fun while you eat, downtown Atlanta’s Hard Rock Cafe serves up its sigGEORGIA.ORG • 1-800-VISIT GA Hampton Locust Grove charm within the wide boundaries of Metro Atlanta. A number of the city’s outlying communities Grantville Moreland Senoia have preserved their historic courthouse squares, and nostalgic main Official Georgia Travel Guide 37 http://www.georgia.org

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