Tag Archives: Blue Ridge Mountains

Trail of Tears, Foxfire Mountain Survival, Primitive Life 1700s. My Trip to the Foxfire Museum in Mountain City, GA. (Issue 203)

By Freedom Lady | April 21, 2009

 
Yesterday, I had a wonderful trip with my grandchildren and daughter in law to the North Georgia Mountains. We went to the area of Clayton, Mountain City, and Dillard, Georgia. Close to the North Carolina border.
 
It was breath-taking scenery from Gainesville going past Tallulah Falls and seeing the awesome sight of the beauty of the [...]

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Lake Lanier, Hall County And Gainesville, Georgia (Issue 120)

By Freedom Lady | November 7, 2008

About two years ago, I moved from Atlanta to Hall County’s Gainesville, Georgia. It’s a pretty little town, about 50 miles north of Atlanta, nestled not far from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It has a beautiful historic district of old Southern mansions in midtown.
 
It’s not very far from Commerce, Georgia, where I [...]

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Nostalgia Of Blue Ridge Mountains (Issue 58)

By Freedom Lady | June 24, 2008

I’m one of those people that collects any and everything, particularly newspaper items, magazine articles, pictures, old letters, and all sorts of mementos. I think it was Andy Warhol who had a room full of things he had collected, from matchbox tops and old menus to Broadway show souvenirs, among other things. And I have [...]

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Lake Lanier & The Chattahoochee River (Issue 10)

By Freedom Lady | January 29, 2008

In the middle part of the 20th century, it was decided the Corp of Engineers would dam up the Chattahoochee River and build a man-made lake, called Lake Lanier, named after the Georgia poet Sidney Lanier who wrote the poem, “Song of the Chattahoochee.” It flows from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Gulf of [...]

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