When Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind she took the true stories and life experiences of her family and friends and laced them together with the history of her beloved south like the white oak splits in the bottoms of the straight back chairs on the back porch of her great grandfather’s plantation house. It was there that the story of Irish … [Read more...]

This morning I’ll be meeting another little group at the big iron gates so they can see the Tara façade. Funny thing is that for me,…it never gets old. I love sharing the experience with others who come because they are big Gone with the Wind fans or they come because there are few places in the world to see pieces of a famous movie set or they come just to … [Read more...]

In 1959 Desi Arnaz and his wife Lucille Ball made the decision to dismantle the Tara façade from the Old Selznick backlot where Gone with the Wind was filmed (which DesiLu Productions had acquired in 1956) and it became the property of Julian Foster who brought it to Atlanta in 1960 for the purpose of creating a Gone with the Wind Museum in the land that was … [Read more...]