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CONTENTS Cover: Great Wolf Lodge............................................................... 4 Annie Greene Tells Her Story in Yarn............................................................................. 23 Area Attractions................................................................................................................... 20 Artisans on the Square & Print Shop Gallery, Greenville, GA..............................................69 Azalea Storytelling Festival by Pepper Hagebak............................................................ 36 Beacon Brewing Co. Histroic Hillside Neighborhood........................................................... 45 Bellevue, National Historic Landmark, Antebellum Home..................................................68 Biblical History Center (formerly Exploration in Antiquity Center)......................................26 Del’Avant Event Center.......................................................................................................... 6 Development Authority of LaGrange, T. Scott Malone, President.......................................76 Downtown LaGrange - Restaurant & Retail Shops Guide....................................................10 DPH-District 4, Georgia Department of Public Health......................................................... 62 Festivals and Cultural Events............................................................................................... 44 Habitat for Humanity, ReStore…….….…….………………………………………………...........................58 Hills & Dales Estate.............................................................................................................. 59 Hogansville, Georgia............................................................................................................ 53 Lafayette Christian School................................................................................................... 68 LaGrange Academy................................................................................................................ 8 LaGrange Art Museum........................................................................................................ 61 LaGrange College................................................................................................................. 56 LaGrange Symphony Orchestra........................................................................................... 48 Liberty Hill Sporting Club, Sporting Clays Facility................................................................ 65 LSPA-Lafayette Society for the Performing Arts................................................................... 37 Map of LaGrange Area......................................................................................................... 40 Shoppers Guide................................................................................................................... 64 St. Mark’s Kindergarten....................................................................................................... 22 Sunday Will Never be the Same by John Long............................................................... 72 Sweetland Amphitheater.................................................................................................... 16 Thinc College and Career Academy..................................................................................... 66 WellStar West Georgia Medical Center................................................................................. 2 West Georgia Technical College........................................................................................... 79
Round and Bout Publications Jake Behr, Publisher LaGrange, Georgia 30240 (706) 957-1206 jakebehr@gmail.com
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GREAT WOLF LODGE GEORGIA
ocated in the city of LaGrange, the resort is the perfect year-round family getaway with an expansive indoor water park and an adjoining adventure park filled with interactive attractions and activities that kids and parents can enjoy together offering value, convenience and endless opportunities.
slide with open racing lanes where they can see and hear their fellow racer – separated only by a low wall.
Starting with the nearly 100,000-square-foot indoor water park with slides and water features for every age and adjacent 40,000-square-foot Great Wolf Adventure Park with a host of familyfriendly attractions such as a ropes course and climbing wall, to a wide range of complimentary kids activities including arts and crafts, dance parties, and more. The towering water slides and the gentle lazy river to our diverse dining options, guests will be immersed in a one-of-a-kind family vacation experience from the moment they walk in our front doors.” Great Wolf Lodge Georgia features 457 suites designed to accommodate families and groups of all sizes. Families can choose from eight suite styles, including the kid-focused Wolf Den and KidCabin suites that will leave pups howling for bedtime, complete with bunk beds and Great Wolf Kids character theming. Premium suites offer one or two bedrooms with additional bathrooms for larger families or friends traveling together. All suites come equipped with an inroom refrigerator and coffee maker.
Additional signature water rides and attractions include a lazy river, wave pool, and more exciting slides including River Canyon Run, a family raft ride, and Wolf Tail, a thrill-seeker’s dream where a floor drops out from under the rider, and they’re taken down a nearly vertical 20-foot free fall. The water park also includes plenty of attractions for the youngest guests with a dedicated zero depth toddler pool filled with age-appropriate slides and water features, and Fort Mackenzie, a multi-level interactive water fort with the resort’s iconic tipping bucket. Great Wolf Lodge Georgia also features Raccoon Lagoon, a large outdoor family pool, as well as Northwoods Springs, an adult-only oasis adjacent to the outdoor pool offering a respite for parents. Featuring a private hot tub and relaxing lounge chairs, Northwoods Springs will be exclusive to guests 21 and over. Admission to the indoor water park is included as part of each overnight stay and is exclusive to resort guests, limiting lines and providing great value to families seeking the perfect place to enjoy quality time together. Great Wolf Lodge Georgia includes more than 18,000 square feet of meeting and events space with built-in audio and video technology, customizable catering options and a worldclass team of industry professionals to assist with any meeting needs.
The centerpiece of the resort is the indoor water park that stretches nearly the size of two football fields, perfectly heated to an ideal 84-degrees and featuring water slides and attractions intended for children of all ages. Two first-of-their-kind slides make their debut at Great Wolf Lodge Georgia. Triple Thunder is a group raft ride that combines two thrilling water park attractions into one pulse-pounding slide. Riders plummet down a steep drop and into a funnel, and then swoosh into two, back-to-back saucers before plunging into a catch pool. Rapid Racer is a two-person tube racing slide featuring drops, chutes and serpentine curves with a surprise twist. Riders enter sections of the 4
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ANNIE GREENE TELLS HER STORY IN YARN
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nnie Lucille Greene has been drawing pictures about her life and times for over half a century. A natural artistic talent led to a career teaching art for 35 years in LaGrange, Georgia, where she still lives. Talented in many artistic genres, Mrs. Greene became famous for her paintings in yarn, which are fascinating because they tell stories from her life. On December 8, she will debut her most challenging series of yarn paintings along with the book, What Color is Water: Growing up Black in a Segregated South at Artisans on the Square, in Greenville, GA. The exhibit will continue until March 30, 2019 and will also include her first book Georgia Farm Life in the ‘40’s, along with 37 yarn paintings, which have not been exhibited in over five years. Georgia Farm Life in the ‘40’s: The Farm in Yarn, is a series of stories and yarn paintings based on the summers of 1944 and 1945 spent on her grandparents’ farm in Adel, GA. This 37-piece museum collection was introduced at The Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in LaGrange in 2001 and has toured Georgia museums in Albany, Moultrie, Atlanta, Valdosta, Douglasville, Calhoun, Marietta, Tifton and Perry. This series illustrates the culture of the family farm, defined by strong family, strong faith and hard work, not only in Georgia in the 1940’s, but all over the country in all eras for as long as the family farm survived. What Color is Water: Growing up Black in a Segregated South tells Annie Greene’s story - a story of success nurtured by family, faith and hard work. She tells her story with grace and without bitterness. Her parents were educators, which was one of very few ways blacks could improve their circumstances in the south before desegregation. They taught her to be proud of who she was and to live with dignity. She finished high school in Hogansville, GA, attended Spelman College in Atlanta for a few years, completed her undergraduate
degree at Albany State College and began teaching in Thomasville, GA in 1954. She earned a master’s degree in art education from New York University because the State of Georgia gave her an out-of-state tuition voucher. Many southern states used tuition vouchers to avoid the expense of providing “separate but equal” post graduate educational opportunities for blacks. Her husband Oliver also earned his master’s and six-year degree at Columbia University on a tuition voucher. The NYU experience provided a wealth of cultural opportunities she might otherwise have missed and inspired her lifelong desire to travel and experience other cultures. What Color is Water? reminds us of inequities many would like to forget – racial segregation of all public and private facilities, schools, bathrooms, water fountains, hotels, restaurants, transportation and entertainment. The stories are told in colorful and yarn paintings with touches of humor, so they are not depressing but leave us grateful that the stories are of times gone by. Unequal opportunities and discrimination did not prevent Annie Greene from achieving success in every aspect of her life, as a wife, mother, teacher, artist, community and church leader. The book ends shortly after school desegregation, but her story continues and her stature in the community continues to grow – enough material for another series - The Rest of the Story?. The exhibit will continue until March 30 to allow time for school, church and community groups to experience this important period of history told in yarn paintings. Both books will be available for purchase and Mrs. Greene will be available at the opening reception on December 8 from 3:00 – 6:00 and upon request. The remaining pieces from her popular Once Upon a Time series will be available for purchase at The Print Shop Gallery, also on the square in downtown Greenville. For more information, visit https://ArtisansontheSquare.gallery. Call or text Linda Wilburn at (404)386-1328 to schedule group visits.
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PARIS, NEW YORK and LAGRANGE, GA How do these modern cities have ties to Ancient Israel?
The Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and LaGrange’s
– an unusual grouping for sure! These are three of only seven museums in the world that the Israel Antiquities Authority has entrusted with a long-term collection of its ancient artifacts. Be sure to see these historic treasures: from a 4,700-year-old game board to 1,600-year-old early Christian oil lamps.
Open Year ‘Round: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm An Archaeological Museum Exploring Daily Life in Ancient Times
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