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Glen-Ella Springs Inn, Clarkesville, GA

Fits all the romantic getaway criteria

by Lois Carol Wheatley | January 11, 2012

There’s a standard checklist for romantic getaways that should be reviewed against the possibility of taking your loved one to Glen-Ella Springs Inn & Meeting Place in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia.

Scenic views: check. Historic inn with tastefully-furnished rooms: check. Well-tended grounds and things to do in the general vicinity: check and check.

The inn has 16 antique-filled rooms, each with private baths, luxury linens, colorful fabrics, …


After a full day of chasing buffalo and throwing spears, this is just the ticket.

After a full day of chasing buffalo and throwing spears, this is just the ticket.

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Classic Hair and Spa, Athens GA

Hot stone treatment really rocks

by Lois Carol Wheatley | December 30, 2011

Native Americans invented the technique of heating small stones near a fire and placing them on aching muscles and deep tissue injuries. A spiritual component combines with skill and sensitivity as a practitioner places big stones on big muscles and small stones on small muscles, lines them up along the spine at key points, and swaps out cooling stones for a fresh set of hot ones. The stones are basalt, a black volcanic rock that …


Joyce Kennedy of Mother's Finest will re-part your hair

Joyce Kennedy of Mother's Finest will re-part your hair

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New Years Eve in Athens, GA

I can't hear you

by Lois Carol Wheatley | December 14, 2011

A local ordinance requires that you make some noise on New Year’s Eve or, at a minimum, be in a place where the decibel level is hazardous to your health. Here are a few New Year’s options that will keep you in compliance with this important new legislation.

The Whigs of Elf Power plays the New Year’s party at 40 Watt Club, 285 W. Washington St., (706) 549-7871, www.40watt.com. The show starts …


Pick up some holiday decorating tips from the experts

Pick up some holiday decorating tips from the experts

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Holiday Spirits Museum Mile Tour, Athens, GA

All aboard for the historical holiday tour

by Lois Carol Wheatley | December 03, 2011

The Holiday Spirits Museum Mile Tour will be a victory lap for the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation. A tour bus leaves the Ware-Lyndon House at 293 Hoyt Street at 5, 6 and 7 p.m. on Dec. 10 on two-hour tours to visit four historic homes decked out for the holidays, some of them saved from the wrecking ball through the efforts of the Foundation.

ACHF’s first salvage success was the Church-Waddell-Brumby House, Athen’s oldest surviving …


Here you'll dream of bonnets, bows, and mint juleps

Here you'll dream of bonnets, bows, and mint juleps

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Grand Oaks Manor Bed & Breakfast, Athens, GA

Nearly two centuries of respite for weary travelers

by Lois Carol Wheatley | November 13, 2011

Built in 1820, Grand Oaks Manor Bed & Breakfast is the genuine antebellum item. You’ve got your white columns on a wide front porch—they call it a rocking chair veranda—and some history on parade among the tastefully appointed furnishings. The original building was the Gum Springs Inn, a way station for farmers taking their crops to market along the 1805 Federal Road. Current owners Celeste and Harry Neely display, among other historic treasures, a Letter …


This one means the Yankees are coming

This one means the Yankees are coming

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Army Signal Corps Museum, Fort Gordon, GA

Civil War communications relied on wigwag flags

by Lois Carol Wheatley | November 03, 2011

The Civil War might not be the first thing to spring to mind at the U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum at Fort Gordon. The exhibits are mostly radios and satellites and such—a chronology of communications equipment from start to finish—and one thing you’ll find here is what the military considers to be the start. Albert J. Myer founded the Signal Corps just in time for the War Between the States, promoting the use of flags …


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