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ABOVE: The Chattooga River, on the Georgia/South Carolina border, earns well its Wild and Scenic Designation.
LOWER LEFT: You can feed the goats in 25-cent servings.
And how can you pass up a roadside
attraction called Goats on the Roof!
and rubber tires. Just to the side of the trail
was a fairly modern hay bailer with weeds
and small trees growing through its rusting
skeleton. A chimney on the other side of
the trail marked where a farmhouse once
stood.
Adeline Ford, which we had determined
to be our turnaround point, provided the
best view of the river. Wide and shallow,
its clear waters flowed over multi-colored
rocks and stones that have been shaped
and rounded by the river's movement.
The nice thing about doing a hike in
early morning is that there is the rest of the
day to explore the area by automobile. And
how can you pass up a roadside attraction
called Goats on the Roof! Geared toward
families, it features a small playground, café
and souvenir shop. The real reason to stop,
of course, is the goats wandering about on
a grass-covered roof and in a ground level
pen. A 25-cent vending machine dispenses
feed (goat chow?) into a paper cup and
when Laurie offered hers to a kid goat, it
wrested it out of her hand, consuming both
food and cup in only a few bites!
A few miles north is 106-acre Foxfire
Museum and Heritage Center, an
outgrowth of the Foxfire magazines and
books of the 1960s. A walking path winds
along the hillside where living history
demonstrators and crafters present, and
help preserve, the life skills and culture from
earlier days. The blacksmith and weaver
relayed the history of their crafts, but it was
the talented hands of broom maker Carole
Morse that impressed me the most. Using
wire coming from what she called a late
1700s "broom horse" to attach broom corn
to a handle, she created a hearth broom in
a matter of minutes.
A cabin in River Campground in nearby
Lakemont was our accommodation for the
night. The campground is not the resort
type of place with upscale glamping or
amenities, but its rustic facilities do provide
direct access to trout fishing in the Tallulah
River.
In addition, owner Melissa Heiden is
a great ambassador for the area. Over
breakfast at the Rusty Bike Restaurant,
she relayed how she has come to enjoy
northern Georgia: "I was apprehensive
when I inherited the campground from my
father. I knew nothing about the area and
did not want to leave my home in Florida.
Yet, I found the weather to be to my liking
and the people to be so friendly-I made
many new friends within the first year-that I
now wouldn't want to be anywhere else."
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