While the name Gerald O’Hara came to the book from another source (a source I have identified and will share soon enough), the character or Gerald O’Hara is found in the lineage of Margaret Mitchell herself. So this morning, in honor of yesterday’s Father’s Day Celebration let’s remember the patriarch of the real Tara and see how his story connects with the … [Read more...]
Tom Jones and his work to Save Tara
I have always said that there is nothing to hide and nothing to "edit" from the story of the Tara façade. Its story is one for the ages and its tale in all of the good or bad should be told in its entirety. I have been successful in my work for the past twenty years by laying out the stories I find in the history books in the same wrapping they came in, … [Read more...]
Finding the truth in Gone with the Wind!
That’s right YOU can learn just as much about Gone with the Wind as the next person if you set yourself to the task. I did not begin my career collecting plates, going to all the GWTW presentations, screenings and speeches (and I still don’t….not that there is anything wrong with that)…I simply went ot a library (where you can read the books for free) and … [Read more...]
How do we know that the pieces in the barn are really Tara?
I have never shied away from that question because, frankly it does defy all logic to think that Tara has been sitting in barns around Atlanta since its arrival in Georgia in 1960 and NO one has been able to put it on display. But in 1960 they did not have the internet and the opportunity to contact the world thru social media so they would have had to spend … [Read more...]
It’s, “always another day” to learn something!
When I first started the Saving Tara Project I was constantly being “hit in the face” with new truths about the Tara façade and its construction and time on the screen. But I think the most poignant was the realization that Tara was only seen on screen for a short amount of time during the entire film and the outside of Tara,….the façade was seen for … [Read more...]
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