Saving Tara

Saving Tara - Restoring the Famous Home from Gone With The Wind

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Tara Comes Home…circa 1960

This time last year the volunteers on the Saving Tara Project were eating cake served from the tailgate of my old Chevy Blazer in remembrance of the June 1, 1960 arrival of Tara in Atlanta and being amazed at how much we had accomplished. I bought a cake from the local Publix Grocery that was supposed to say, “Happy Anniversary Tara” but due to a spelling … [Read more...]

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You gonna rebuild Tara?

That…my friends seems to be the daily question I receive via email from those who found me via some news story and seek to know if it’s true. So,…once again I explain to them that I am simply displaying the pieces, (the windows, the doors and the side porches of Tara) rather than putting these historic pieces into new frame work. I appreciate the fact … [Read more...]

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Historical ties in GWTW

This morning I want to share a couple of books that document the family connection to Margaret Mitchell and John Henry (Doc) Holliday of Tombstone, Arizona fame. He was from Georgia and he is thought by many (including myself) to be one half of the Ashley and Melanie story as he was very close to his first cousin Mattie Holliday of Jonesboro, Georgia and … [Read more...]

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When Tara was lost!

Over the last few weeks there have been a number of news reports regarding the Saving Tara Project and at some point the reporting got off track and stated that I (yes, yours truly), “had bought an old barn and had discovered the movie set from Gone with the Wind inside”. Well, that could not be further from the truth,… for most folks know that Tara was … [Read more...]

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Is it really all about location, location, location?

It is not always possible to maintain a historic site andshare it with the world. There will surely be many more times when an historic property is left “homeless” because the historic ground it was built upon was needed for another fast food chain or housing development. And I thank god for those sites who have the place to interpret such pieces of history … [Read more...]

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