Psychiatric News April 1, 2005
Volume 40 Number 7
© 2005 American Psychiatric Association
p. 43
See Atlanta the Easy Way: APA-Sponsored Tours
Mark Moran
Visitors interested in learning about Atlanta the efficient way can sign
up for tours focusing on national parks, CNN and Coca-Cola, the civil rights
movement, and the Civil War.
APA members and guests attending the annual meeting in May will be able to
choose among five different tours designed to give them an intimate look at
the Gateway City to the South.
All tours include expert guides and comfortable motorcoach transportation,
and all depart from the Georgia World Congress Center. Early registration is
encouraged, and reservations can be made using the form provided in the
advance registration materials that have been mailed to all APA members. The
deadline for advance tour reservations is April 29.
• Atlanta "Up Close": This four-hour tour will
follow the trail of Atlanta's history from the ashes of the Civil War to its
contemporary resurgence as an exemplar of the "New South." The
tour will travel down Peachtree Street, one of the most famous thoroughfares
in the South, and stop at the Fox Theater, High Museum of Art, and Margaret
Mitchell House. Other features of the tour include the CNN Center, Phillips
Arena, Georgia's gold-domed state capitol, Turner Field, Olympic Village,
Centennial Park, and Peachtree Center.
The tour will also visit the exclusive Buckhead neighborhood, where some of
the most elegant mansions in the South can be found. Landmarks include the
Coca-Cola Mansion, Georgia's Governor's Mansion, and the Swan House.
Finally, participants will tour the Martin Luther King Jr. National
Historic District, where they will visit King's burial site, the Ebenezer
Baptist Church where he preached, and his birth home.
The tour will be offered on Saturday, May 21, Sunday, May 22, and
Tuesday, May 24, at 1 p.m.
• CNN and Coca-Cola: Two of the world's most recognized names
were born and bred in Atlanta. Participants on this four-hour tour will visit
the World of Coca-Cola, an interactive museum all about the ubiquitous soft
drink founded by Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton in 1886.
Participants will also tour the studios of Cable News Network and learn how
founder Ted Turner developed a worldwide communications empire from a small
UHF television station he purchased in the early 1970s.
The tour is offered on Sunday, May 22, and Tuesday, May 24, at 9
a.m.
• Atlanta "City of Leaders": This four-hour tour is
dedicated to Atlanta's two Nobel Peace Prize Award winners, Martin Luther King
Jr. and former President Jimmy Carter.
Participants will tour the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic
District, visiting the slain civil-rights leader's tomb and birthplace, as
well as the Ebenezer Baptist Church. From there the tour will go to the Jimmy
Carter Presidential Library and Museum, where participants can follow the life
of the peanut farmer from Plains who became a world
leader.
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After opening in 1997, Turner Field, the home of the Atlanta Braves, has
quickly become an Atlanta landmark and a benchmark for future baseball park
design.
©2003, Kevin
C.Rose/AtlantaPhotos.com
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The tour is offered on Monday, May 23, and Wednesday, May 25, at 1
p.m.
• Stone Mountain Park: Stone Mountain towers more than 800 feet
over 3,200 acres of Georgia woodlands. It is the largest piece of exposed
granite in the world and is estimated to be more than 1 million years old.
The tour of Stone Mountain Park takes six hours. Participants can ride a
cable car to the top of the mountain, a train around the base of the mountain,
and a paddlewheel boat on Stone Mountain Lake. Participants may also visit
Crossroads, a 19th-century Georgia town with gristmill, bakery, blown-glass
shop, candle shop, blacksmith, and general store. Twenty-first century fun is
available at the Great Barn and 3-D Theater.
The tour is offered on Sunday, May 22, and Tuesday, May 24, at 9
a.m.
• Civil War Atlanta: The Civil War and its aftermath are a
central part of the history that shaped Atlanta, and its destiny—like
that of the South itself—was forever changed by the War Between the
States. The Battle of Atlanta, on July 22, 1864, was one of the most
significant in the closing days of the war. Participants in this five-hour
tour will relive some of Civil War Atlanta by visiting the Atlanta Cyclorama
and the Margaret Mitchell House.
The Cyclorama is an enormous painting in the round on a three-dimensional
diorama. Viewed from a revolving platform, the painting will make the Battle
of Atlanta come alive.
The Margaret Mitchell House is one of the most visited sites in Atlanta,
and the Battle of Atlanta figures heavily in Mitchell's world-famous Gone
With the Wind. Participants can tour the turn-of-the-century home where
Mitchell wrote her epic and browse through the museum and gift shop.
The tour is offered on Monday, May 23, and Wednesday, May 25, at 9
a.m. 
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