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No Question About It: Mobile Has a Lot to Offer
The Battle House Hotel has quite a history. Stephan A. Douglas stayed there the night he lost the presidency to Abraham Lincoln. Not only did President Woodrow Wilson stay there, but so did Elvis Presley the day he was kicked out of the fairgrounds for “doing the shake”...
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Gifts with Meaning: Great Things from South Georgia
In the 1940s, when local businesses boycotted Koinonia Farms in South Georgia because blacks and whites lived and worked together, Koinonia, in order to survive, began a mail order business selling farm produce and pecans throughout the country while providing employment and job training for local residents. Every year they harvest, sort, smoke and roast pecans and peanuts, and produce delicious fruitcakes, pies, granola and chocolates...
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Northeast Georgia Offers Sleighful of Holiday Events
From Christmas Open Houses to a Festival of Trees to a Holi-Day Camp, along with visits with Santa and Mrs. Claus, there are a variety of festive activites in Northeast Georgia this holiday season.  Enjoy...
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Camaro Makes Comeback
Introducing the 2010 Camaro 2LT rally sport.  After a decade in what might have been reform school, the Camaro comes back in much better shape: not only faster and more agile, but leaner, greener and more fuel-efficient...
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Ignatius House Hosts Early Fall Retreats for Respite, Renewal
A variety of retreats offered early this fall provide men and women of all faiths a chance to disconnect from the digital and reconnect with the spiritual...
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Help Keeping Boating Incidents Down Labor Day Weekend
There are no “driving lanes” on the water, so boat operators need to be educated on the ‘rules of the road’ and aware of all other boat traffic in the area...
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Lights, Camera, Action on a Georgia Movie Road Trip
Embark on a Georgia movie road trip to see the town squares, restaurants, hotels and park benches that gave your favorite films a backdrop on the big screen... 
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State Encourages Citizens to Get Outdoors this Summer: “Go Stay Georgia”
Five of Georgia’s state parks offer hotel-style lodges where guests can enjoy on-site restaurants and meeting facilities.  Amicalola and Unicoi state parks have mountain-view lodges and Red Top Mountain State Park’s lodge provides access to Lake Allatoona.  And new this year are cottage rentals at Smithgall Woods near Helen...
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Tips for Affordable Traveling and Weekend Getaways in Dahlonega
North Georgia's Chestatee River inspires numerous water activities. Appalachian Outfitters offers affordable adventures. Float in a tube down a lazy path of river that parts a country landscape of lush trees, swim popular waterholes, or ride the gentle or challenging rapids in a canoe. A thirty-minute tube ride is $6 per person...
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Amicalola Falls State Park & Lodge Offer Nature-Based Training, Retreats
Amicalola Falls is part of Amicalola State Park and Lodge and one of seven state parks in Georgia that offer a retreat center guaranteed to recharge a tired staff through a spectacular change of scenery. Amicalola Falls State Park and Lodge sits 1,000 feet above the mountain valley and within earshot of the Southeast's highest waterfall...
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Vacations Close to Home Very Popular This Year
Located on more than fifty acres of bucolic pastures and woods but not far from the charming village of Clarkesville, Georgia, Sutton Mill is an ideal mini vacation for those who are watching their wallets and staying closer to home this summer...
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DOT Gears Up for Summer Construction, Asks Motorists to Plan Ahead
There are a number of road construction and maintenance projects scheduled in the next few months and Georgia DOT wants to make sure commuters and vacationers can get to their Southeastern destinations with the least amount of delays and aggravation...
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Get Your Free Guide to Georgia’s State Parks & Historic Sites
The newly released 2009 Guide to Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites is a comprehensive and colorfulu booklet that highlights the diverse beauty of Georgia’s great outdoors and helps Georgians plan their next outdoor adventure.
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Georgia's State Parks Offer Affordable Spring Break Getaways
Join the Canyon Climbers Club and make it your goal to scale to the top of Amicalola Falls, which is right in our backyard, explore the depths of Providence Canyon, brave the swinging bridge in Tallulah Gorge and face the daunting staircase in Cloudland Canyon...
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Downtown Dahlonega Hosts Appalachian Jam Every Saturday - April 18 Through November 7
North Georgia’s mountain music pickers and singers flock to the Dahlonega Gold Museum State Historic Site every Saturday, April 18 through November 7. Listeners and musicians alike enjoy the acoustic bluegrass and old time string music on the Public Square....
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'Wine in the Woods' Weekend Begins Feb. 27
Guests will be treated to a culinary tour that includes 14 wines, five mouth-watering meals by resident-chef Mac Parks -- and easy access to a secluded hiking trail to Dukes Creek Falls and outstanding trout fishing...
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Unicoi State Park in Helen Hosts Regional Art Showcase This Weekend
The annual Fireside Art & Craft Show features more than 60 of the Southeast's finest artists. A treasure trove for regional art enthusiasts, the juried show has a reputation for excellence and a fine balance between fine arts and quality crafts...
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Annual Educational Conference Kicks-Off Tourism in Northwest Georgia
Southern Living magazine's, Taylor Bruce, serves as general session speaker and will explain how the changing economy is affecting his very well-known magazine and what the tourism industry can do to keep up with the changes.  Along with Bruce, fourteen other speakers will be on-hand discussing everything from Agritourism to Grant Writing...
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Chuckwagon Cookoff Adds Smoky Flavor to Smoky Mountains
Four-day SaddleUp! festival features cowboy food, music, dance and poetry. Eight of the most unusual vehicles of the year will be in Pigeon Forge Feb. 19-22.  They are authentic Old West chuckwagons in town for a competition cookoff....
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Universal Orlando Resort Giving Away Family Vacation Each Day in February
Universal launched a web-based sweepstakes Sunday that will run for the entire month of February. Each day for a total of 28 days, Universal Orlando Resort will give away a four-day/three-night family vacation that includes theme park admission, airfare and on-site hotel accommodations...
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