Romance by candlelight...a breath of scandal...coffee and pistols at dawn...war and history in the making...even murder. One will find it all in White Columns in Georgia.
The beautiful white-columned antebellum houses of Georgia are more than a tourist's dream. They symbolize the South in its days of glory. This vivacious book is a delightful compendium of their history, legend, folklore, and strange events.
Georgia is the land of Margaret Mitchell and her Scarlet O'Hara, Bobby Jones, Garden Clubbers, Ty Cobb, the Talmadges, Junior Leaguers, Coca-Cola millionaires, and cotton farmers. It's a state where anything could happen and usually did, especially in its historic old houses.
The fabulous ladies are here: Confederate WACS and girl spies, Sherman's Georgia sweetheart, Mrs. Nathanael Greene, the famous English actress Fanny Kemble whose Journal rocked the South almost as much as did Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the ghosts who still haunt their houses today.
These old houses hold onto the people who have lived within their walls, and they hold on longest to those who lived their lives with the most gusto.
From Athens, Greece, to Athens, Georgia. the ancient architecture of the Grecian civilization is preserved along with Colonial, Gothic, and Victorian style houses. Mrs. Perkerson has gathered them all in a book of superb entertainment for everyone, from historians to architects, from the most unreconstructed rebel to the hardiest damn-yankee, from Peachtree Street to that dream image in Gone With the Wind.
– From the dust jacket
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