Look out Georgia here we come!!

[tripleblessed]

The Cyclorama, though showing her age, is an amazing achievement. It's about 20-30 minutes from Stone Mountain,
and is housed about two or two and a half miles from the area of fighting it depicts. Grant Park(not THAT Grant) fronts
Boulevard, and the home team was arrayed roughly along that street's north/south line. Union lines were about two miles east, just west of present-day Moreland Avenue, with their northern flank just southeast of the Carter Presidential Library/Center. The painting is from the point of view of a tower constructed by the artist to allow him to see the whole field. It was almost literally a stone's throw from the railroad cut that allowed the breaking of the Union line, and maybe even closer to where DeGress had his battery of Illinois artillery, which put up a heroic defense. Both the painting and
the site may be enjoyed.

Since you have interest in the late unpleasantness, I also would recommend Kennesaw Mountain. Today, it's surrounded by trees, homes and condos, but on the day of that one, no trees seen, the forest having disappeared into breastworks and campfires. It and Little Kennesaw rise sharply out of the surrounding landscape, those two clearly visible and alone seen from the summit of Stone Mountain. Politics and beliefs aside, standing at the top of Kennesaw looking down it's steep flank you are overwhelmed by the enormity of attacking up that angle into a firestorm of assorted arms, and the terrible wall of canister and grapeshot. While carrying your stuff, and a long and heavy weapon.......

One must weep for our stupidities and our stubbornness, but the heart nearly swells out of the chest in admiration of all
on all those fields that they were so committed to their beliefs.

On other issues, you may enjoy a trip to Mary Mac's Tea Room, since 1945 or so a landmark of southern eating. Much easier on the wallet than Pittypat's. Or maybe try the Colonnade. Both icons of southern meat and three type restaurants, both have rabid following, eclectic clientele overlaid on their genteel beginnings. They've even let me in. I, as well, would recommend Tallulah Gorge. Some weekends the power company releases enough water for the falls to flow; whether schedules mesh ????. From Toccoa, the Tartan Museum is about an hour's drive. To Toccoa, about an hour and a half from Stone Mountain.