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Cheryl McKay Price
Cheryl and her mom, Denise McKay, pose in front of the Woodstock mural in September 2015.
Lights, Camera, Woodstock!
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BY CHERYL MCKAY PRICE
Six years ago, my husband Chris and I decided to leave behind the so-called glamour and lights of Hollywood and relocate to Atlanta, which, at the time, was newly coined as Little Hollywood. We had no idea in which part of Atlanta we would land. As a screenwriter of faithbased movies, I work from home. We didn’t have to be inside the Perimeter to get work. Given that my husband would be starting a new video production company, he’d find clients wherever we landed.
Naturally, in our hunt, we went first to studio locations, such as Fayetteville and Norcross, the latter based on the rumor “The Hunger Games Mockingjay — Part 2” was shot there. Little did we know, we’d end up on the opposite side of the planet, so it seems, from those places.
People kept telling us to check out this quaint little town called Woodstock. At the time, a movie titled “Champion,” directed by Woodstock filmmaker Judd Brannon, was in production at the Dixie Speedway and Elm Street Theater.
I’d heard HGTV’s Egypt Sherrod mention Woodstock once on “Property Virgins,” but it wasn’t on my checklist of 13 towns we’d explored. One look at Google Maps and I thought, no way. That’s too far out. But, when multiple people told us what we were looking for was smack dab in Woodstock, including listing agents trying to sell us homes in other suburbs, we decided to check it out. You know, just to cross it off our list.
But, that’s not what happened. One turn down Main Street at Arnold Mill Road, and we were hooked. Immediately, we looked at each other and declared, “we’re home.” We stopped to take the first of many pictures at the Woodstock train mural. Fourteenth town’s the charm, right?
Woodstock and Cherokee County are beautiful locations for filming, with much variety (just ask the crew of “Ozark”), and it’s a fantastic place to call home, with an artist-friendly community, between live music and the theater scene.
Cheryl McKay Price writes faith-based movies and novels. She and her husband have called Woodstock home since 2015. They run a local production company, Roads & Rivers Media.
