NationalGeographicTravellerAustraliaandNewZealandWinter2018

(Greg DeLong) #1
wINTER ISSUE 2018 79

EAT THIS
in the vast pantheon of southern
classics, biscuits are right up there.
if you’ve never eaten one before, they’re
quite like scones although not as sweet
and most often served at breakfast. head
to Home Grown and you can choose to
have your biscuits plain (just add jam)
or with ham, egg, turkey sausage,
fried chicken or sausage gravy.

SEE THAT
in 1980, ted turner launched the first
24-hour news channel, cnn, and this was
where it all began. the company moved
its weekday anchors and some editorial
staff to new York and Washington in 2014,
but plenty still happens at CNN Center,
the world headquarters. Upgrade the
standard behind-the-scenes tour, where
you’ll see how the news is produced
and broadcast over the world, to the
ViP version and you’ll get inside the
news rooms, studios and control room.

DON’T MISS
it’s probably no surprise there’s a focus
on the history of civil rights in southern
cities, but The Center for Civil and
Human Rights is one of the few to
connect the history of the american civil
rights movement and the struggle for
human rights around the world today.
One of the most powerful displays allows
visitors to sit at a replica lunch counter
and put on headphones to experience
what is was like for young african–
americans who held sit-ins across the
South in the late 1950s. People scream,
the counter moves as if banged and the
stools vibrate as if being kicked. it is a
visceral experience that conveys the
intimidation and discrimination these
non-violent protestors faced daily.

AFTER DARK
atlanta has serious game when it comes
to cocktails, but if you want to sip great
drinks and cut loose, head to The Sound
Table. navarro carr is the man behind
the shaker, mixing concoctions like the
Unvanquished (bourbon, Zirbenz pine
liqueur, maple syrup, lime, orange bitters
and cardamom). Plus, there are DJs daily
and dancing is encouraged.

THAT ONE TIME OF YEAR
it’s a music festival but with a distinct
difference. in June, Tunes from the
Tombs features more than a dozen
local acts playing at Woodlawn
cemetery beneath the magnificent
magnolias. During the day there are
also mini tours where visitors can learn
about some of Woodlawn’s most famous
residents, including Margaret Mitchell,
author of Gone With the Wind.

Atlanta
gEORgIA

If you thought you had to go to
Los Angeles to spot movie stars,
you’d be wrong. The Georgia
film industry ranks third in the
country, and in March this year
29 TV shows and movies were
being produced in and around
Atlanta (The Walking Dead is
filmed about an hour from the
city). Atlanta is also, famously,
the home town of the Coca-Cola
Company, a fact which once
turned around the fate of the
city. In 1964, social conservatives
refused to attend a dinner for
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Martin
Luther King Jr. Coca-Cola CEO
J Paul Austin said the company,
now going international, could
not stay in a city that would
not honour a Nobel Peace Prize
winner. Sixteen-hundred people
attended and it became the night
Atlanta became “too busy to
hate”. Those roots have driven the
city and it’s now diverse, creative
and the capital of the South.

Biscuit with fried chicken
and sausage gravy; visitors
at Atlanta’s Center for Civil
and Human Rights (below).

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