Eatonton, Georgia

Eatonton, Georgia is the home of Uncle Remus!  This was an interesting little museum that had been made up of three log slave cabins.

Lots of original editions of Joel Chandler Harris books, memorabilia, and tales of Harris' life.  Many of his stories were based on the stories he heard from slaves on the plantation where he worked.

I got a chuckle out of this very "scientific" exhibit.

Of course we did some geocaching while we were out exploring.  We have found that looking for caches takes us to some interesting places that we would not normally go to.  It also makes us slow down and look around!

This is called the "Rock Eagle Effigy".  You climb up a 5 story tower to view it.  It is believed to be prehistoric, built by the Creek Indians; of course it has been restored.  There is really no other history known of the effigy as there have been no artifacts found in the area that could give an specific information.

Saw this sign while driving down a 2 land road, of course it is exactly the type of thing we have to stop to look at.

This was a beautiful setting.  The bridge had been originally built in 1892, destroyed by a flood in 1994, and rebuilt with many of the original timbers.  Well worth the detour!!

Warm Springs, Georgia was the place where Franklin D Roosevelt had his treatments for polio.  At the time, it was believed that swimming in the water would relieve the symptoms.  He has a home there that became known as the "Little White House".  The museum at the site was fascinating.  A short movie is shown before entering the museum, narrated by Walter Cronkite.  We learned a lot about FDR.  He was responsible for getting electricity to rural Georgia after traveling around and seeing how hard life was with out it.  He was having his portrait painted, complained of a headache, collapsed, and died a few hours later of a cereberal hemorrage.

Quilts that were made for FDR.

FDR's car with the hand controls that he designed to he could drive without the use of his legs.

The house is small, only 3 bedrooms, a combination living/dining room, servants quarters over the garage.  The grounds are beautiful and it is only a mile from the Warm Springs pool where FDR got his treatments.

 This is the portrait that was being painted at the time of his death.  The artist left it unfinished as a memorial, then went on to paint a finished one as she imagined it would have looked.

So we are still having fun exploring central Georgia!!

Next Chapter - Savannah!

Behind Again

Yes, I have been slacking on the Blog.  My computer finally gave up the ghost.  Somehow having over 7,000 pics on it, was slowing it down; even though I moved everything to an external hard drive, it just could not recover.  Vince to use a few times, and once he saw what I was dealing with, he bought me an early birthday present; a Toshiba P745.  It has 5 times the memory of the old one and I am being much more consistent with moving pics to the external drive. 

We have been keeping really busy.  Still staying at the Shriners Park in Macon, enjoying watching spring come to Georgia.  Since Macon is in the middle of the state, traveling to different areas is very easy.

Vince spends time with his father every week, as he cannot be left alone at all.  They are waiting to get him into see a neurologist for an Alzhiemers evaluation.  We are pretty sure that will be the diagnosis.  It is good that Vince can spend this time with him, and his dad really seems to enjoy having Vince there.  As most of you know, dealing with aging parents is not an easy thing.

On Leap Day, we headed down to Warner Robbins, GA, spent the day geocaching, then went to a Cache event.  We found 11 out of 13 caches we searched for and found some interesting caches.

This cache was on part of an old race track that was used in the early 60s for stock car racing.  Just a small section of 2 lanes of concrete were left, and the cache itself contained 2 pictures of cars that had raced on it and the story of the track.  The track ran down thru a stand of pinetrees.  This is one of the great advantages of geocaching; discovering out of the way places, and obscure history.

Fritz loves to geocache too.  Actually, he just loves to run around loose in the woods, exploring where ever his nose leads him.

This cache was hanging in a tree and was called "Where Tweety Spends the Winter".  It is my favorite one so far!

After a great day of caching, we atteneded a Leap Day Cache event at a local coffee house.  There were over 30 people there, games, path tag trading, and a flash mob performance of "Let's Do the Time Warp Again" in the parking lot.  Vince said he couldn't tell what was funnier, watching the performance or the faces of the other people in the coffee house!

Next issue - our trip to Savannah!!