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Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum was founded in 1990 to save and preserve the house where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the book Gone With the Wind. On August 1, 2004, the Margaret Mitchell House merged with the Atlanta History Center (AHC). As a result, the AHC oversees the operation of the two-acre site which includes the Margaret Mitchell House, Gone With the Wind Movie Museum, Visitors Center, Museum Shop and The Center for Southern Literature. Tours of the exhibits tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond the book and movie, including her journalism career, philanthropy and family history. The Center for Southern Literature, the programming division of the MMH, preserves the legacy of Margaret Mitchell through weekly literary author programs, creative writing classes for adults and youth, and the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program.

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  • Hank Klibanoff: American Awakening and the Race Beat

    Thu, Dec 7, 2006
    Hank Klibanoff, lecturing from his book *The Race Beat*, tells the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South, and the brutality used to enforce it. Klibanoff discusses how the nation's press, after decades of ignoring the problem, came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the 20th century.
    Forum Network
    Civil Rights Movement Series
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
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    Joseph Dabney: Art of Lowcountry Cooking

    Fri, Jun 25, 2010
    Joseph Dabney discusses his new book, *The Food, Folklore and Art of Lowcountry Cooking.* The book's subtitle is: A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down from England, Africa, the Caribbean, France, Germany and Scotland. Dabney takes readers on a prideful tour of Charleston, Beaufort, and Savannah and offers authentic regional voices, old-time photographs, and fascinating sidebars.
    Forum Network
    Food and Wellness
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

  • Ellen F. Brown: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind

    Wed, Feb 16, 2011
    Ellen Brown, lawyer and an award-winning freelance writer, discusses the book she co-authored with John Wiley, Jr. The book is titled, *Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood*. She tells the story of the extensive research they undertook in order to write this biography which is focused mainly on the book itself. How it went from a disorganized and incomplete manuscript by an unknown Southern writer and how it was discovered by a major New York publisher and became one of the most popular, profitable, and controversial novels in literary history.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
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    Jill McCorkle on Going Away Shoes

    Fri, Nov 12, 2010
    Jill McCorkle talks about her new book, *Going Away Shoes*. This is a collection of eleven new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight. Shoes figure largely in these stories of confronting the complications of love—honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, glass slippers—as all the characters march to a place of new awareness, and, in one way or another, transform their lives.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum