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Deal of the Week
Compared to
the rest of GEORGIA, the largest of
the Southern states, the bright lights of
its capital Atlanta are a wild
aberration. Apart from some beaches and
towns on the highly indented coastline, this
overwhelmingly rural state is composed of
slow, easy-going settlements where the best,
and sometimes the only, way to enjoy your
time is to sip iced tea and have a chat on
the porch.
Settlement in Georgia, the thirteenth
British colony (named after King George II),
started in 1733 at Savannah, intended as a
haven of Christian principles for poor
Britons, with both alcohol and slavery
banned. However, under pressure from
planters, slavery was introduced in
1752, and by the time of the Civil War
almost half the population were black
slaves. Little fighting took place on
Georgian soil until Sherman’s troops
marched in from Tennessee, burned Atlanta to
the ground and laid waste to all property on
the way to the coast. The economy
successfully reestablished itself after the
war, however: Atlanta rose from the ashes to
become the communications center of the
South, and attracted substantial investment
in the latter years of the nineteenth
century.
Today, bustling Atlanta stands as
the unofficial capital of the South. The
city where Dr Martin Luther King Jr
was born, preached and is buried bears
little relation to Gone with the Wind
stereotypes, and its forward-looking energy
is upheld as a role model for other cities
with large black populations – though it
does still suffer high levels of urban
poverty and violent crime.
Atlanta’s main rival as a tourist
destination is the Georgia coast,
stretching south from beautiful old Savannah
via the sea islands to the
semitropical Okefenokee Swamp, inland
near Florida. In the northeast, the Appalachian
foothills are particularly fetching in
fall, while Athens has a reputation
for producing offbeat rock groups such as
REM and the B-52’s. Further south,
the agricultural heartlands are rich in
musical history, but only Macon and
ancient Ocmulgee provide reasons to
stop
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