So once you find your movie icon stacked in an old barn amid lawn chairs, farm sinks and go carts, what are going to do to proclaim it, preserve it and present it (Yes, I was once a preacher and we tend alliterate everything, and No, you cannot use my three points)? Before the work began on the Tara façade the word had to be sent out that it existed and that … [Read more...]

In a letter dated June 12,1959 Wilbur Kurtz (the historical consultant on the set of Gone with the Wind) writes to Julian Foster (the man who dismantled Tara in Hollywood and brought it to Atlanta in 1959) to congratulate him on his plan to restore and display the movie icon in Georgia.  Dear Mr. Foster, Thanks for your good letter of the 9th instant. I’m … [Read more...]

Yesterday I had another great tour at the Tara façade and made a bunch of new friends. My wife laughs when I say some horrible thing about an errant driver and how “I hate people”…because the truth is I so enjoy meeting new folks and “visiting”. Yesterday was no exception as I made a bunch of new friends….and learned something new. Yes, that’s right,…I….Mr. … [Read more...]

Ever since Gone with the Wind came out in book form in 1936, people have roamed the back roads of Georgia asking any stranger who would stop and hear their plea…. “where is Tara”. For years the local tourism office would tell those hapless wanderers that, “it was only in Margaret’s imagination”, but according to the statements and writings of Margaret … [Read more...]

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