Theme for a Week: Gone With the Wind

I'm ashamed to say it, but I grew up in Atlanta and had never read Gone With the Wind until I left Australia to come back here to Atlanta for my Christmas holiday. Little did I realize what a true page-turner it was going to be, occupying almost every hour of my 14 hour flight to L.A., and the entirety of my 5 hour overnight flight from L.A. to Atlanta (I was the annoying person on the plane who never turned her overhead light off while everyone else slept!). It was so good, and brought so much of the south back to life for me, that I've decided to make it this week's theme. I'm IN Atlanta, after all, and am surrounded by civil war history and only a drive away from where Margret Mitchell wrote her epic novel. I grew up IN Clayton County just near Jonesboro, where the fictional 'Tara' would have been. Places like my daycare center carried the name 'Tara'--in fact, there were so many 'Tara's that I thought it really was a real place when I was a kid. The old Jonesboro railroad station and civil war graveyard are still there, and I grew up driving around it for years, never knowing the significance of all the Georgia rail stations until I studied the civil war in fifth grade. If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it--especially if you are Southern!

Monday, I'll review the book and tell you why you are going to love it.

Tuesday, I'll look at the movie, and the glamourous antebellum plantations, gowns with ginormous hoop-skirts,  bowed bonnets, and Hollywood stars that featured in it.

Wednesday, I'll review the sequel, Scarlett, which I read just after I finished the original book. Bet you are wondering if it sucks already, well...check back on Wednesday!

Thursday, as a part of my spirituality and self-help series, 'Sage', I'll analyze the spiritual lessons we can learn from the character, 'Scarlett', how to not be a bitch being one of them!

Friday, I'll take you to Stone Mountain park in Atlanta, where you can see what a real antebellum plantation  looks like, complete with gardens, stables, and slave quarters.

And Saturday, I'll take you to the grave of Margret Mitchell herself,  to the oldest graveyard in Atlanta, Oakland Cemetery, where thousands of Civil War dead were buried, many in unmarked graves. You gothlings are going to love that post. ;)

You can see I've got a lot of time on my hands here, heh heh! 

Who has read Gone With the Wind or seen the movie? 

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