Atlanta's Stone Mountain
Title | Atlanta's Stone Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Stephen Hudson |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1614235597 |
The breathtaking geological wonder known as Stone Mountain has enchanted people since the age of the Paleo-Indians. Today, Stone Mountain Park annually attracts four million visitors from around the world. Hiking trails showcase rugged granite outcrops with hardy mountain plants, such as endearing yellow daisies. Majestic red-tailed hawks soar overhead. A storied past comes to life through an engaging park quarry exhibit, a historic railroad experience and an epic Confederate Memorial carving envisioned by Gutzon Borglum of Mount Rushmore fame. Writing during the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, authors Paul Hudson and Lora Mirza of Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta present with verve this illustrated multicultural history of a legendary landmark.
Carved in Stone
Title | Carved in Stone PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Freeman |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780865545472 |
Referred to by some as The Eighth Wonder of the World, Stone Mountain, located 16 miles from Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest exposed mass of granite in the world. Freeman, a freelance historian, narrates the development of the mountain from the days that it served as a Native American domain, through the carving of an historic Confederate monument, to its present status as a tourist attraction and recreational area. Enhanced with bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Full Attraction
Title | Full Attraction PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2017-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781946287038 |
13×11 inches, 33×28 cm. Printed on 140 lbs ProLine Pearl photo paper by Mohawk. 26 images. Limited to 15 copies. Hand numbered and signed by artist A K Nicholas. Black linen hardcover with laminated photo dust jacket. Durable library binding. Heavyweight end sheets.
Stone Mountain Park
Title | Stone Mountain Park PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Hollis |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2009-06-29 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1439637970 |
For centuries, explorers and pioneers told of a place in Georgia where there was a gigantic mountain of solid granite resembling a great gray egg lying half-buried on a vast plain. In time, Stone Mountain, 15 miles east of Atlanta, became a local landmark. In 1915, it was decided that the mountains sheer north face would be a good spot to carve a lasting memorial to the lost cause of the Confederacy. This proved to be easier said than done. Before the project was completed, one of Georgias top tourist attractions was established around Stone Mountains base.
Karma Nation
Title | Karma Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Mohan Ashtakala |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9780228606352 |
"Chantley Armstrong, a white woman raised in an ashram in India, and Sam Johnson, a proud young black man, come across each other in Boulder, Colorado. The intense feelings aroused by the chance encounter suggest that they share a relationship from previous lives. Once sheltered but now on her own, Chantley struggles to adapt and gain courage, while Sam, deeply intellectual, strives to find his center. Discovering that they may have been lovers at a plantation in South Carolina during the antebellum period, they journey through the South, visiting places and people connected to America's troubled past and uncertain present. As they fall deeper in love, their travel exposes conflicts whose origins neither is able to explain. They locate their plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, but its exploration reveals a shocking truth about the real nature of their relationship--one that makes them question who they are, their deep-seated beliefs and the meaning of love."--Publisher's description.
Lost Attractions of Georgia
Title | Lost Attractions of Georgia PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Hollis |
Publisher | History Press |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2021-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781540246455 |
While Atlanta has been a major tourist destination since the Civil War, travelers rarely encountered the rest of Georgia unless they were on their way to Florida. That meant scores of attractions, motels, restaurants and gas stations sprang up along the major and minor routes, all vying for their own piece of those Yankee dollars. In Lost Attractions of Georgia, author Tim Hollis introduces us to such defunct sights as Storyland and the Georgia Game Park, as well as now-extinct elements of popular attractions, including Six Flags Over Georgia, Rock City, Stone Mountain Park and others.
The Man Who Carved Stone Mountain
Title | The Man Who Carved Stone Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Donna F. Barron |
Publisher | Xulon Press |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2015-08-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781498443654 |
A country boy born in a small town named Porterdale just southeast of Atlanta became a man with a purpose. How does someone rise up from barely completing high school take on such a monumental task such as etching out three historical figures from the Civil War. I tell you how...a man that went above and beyond the vision that God gave him to work day and night and sometimes seven days a week until the job was finished.. My dad is a man who has been dedicated to everything he has come in contact with ...from helping his mother around the house as well enlisting into the Marine Corp to help provide financial support and then soon marrying my mom to start his own family. He knew that day on Jefferson Street when he was playing football and the ball struck my mom's ankle that she would one day be his wife and the mother of his children. Daddy loved the ocean so much that once a year in August he would take us on a family vacation to Daytona Beach and other trips he would go to Panama City to enjoy one of his favorite past times which was deep-sea fishing. He was so determined that he would never leave his boat until he was satified with his catch. A young man with many jobs starting out as a newspaper boy and moving onto a position as a welder never dreamed that one day he would be hired as the man to erect an outside 400-foot elevator that would ascend up the side of Stone Mountain. This man who fell in love with the mountain and became the Chief Carver of the Confederate Memorial is the same simple man that never took an art lesson in his life and believed that he had a purpose which soon became a historical monument that we all have come to love and enjoy."