AUTUMN FUN, TAILGATING AND LEWIS GRIZZARDThe leaves are turning by the day, festivals are in full swing and the wineries are celebrating this year’s harvest by pouring the fruits from past labor. Gardening is just as popular in the fall as other seasons and Wines Down South covered an event about America’s most famous gardener, Thomas Jefferson. Peter J. Hatch spoke on behalf of his book, “A Rich Spot of Earth: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden,” and the evening at the Atlanta History Center is one of our major features and also the inspiration for our new home page. (click)
This month we reunite with Georgia’s beloved Lewis Grizzard. We can’t bring him back, but we can laugh and maybe shed a tear during an amazing on stage portrayal. “Lewis Grizzard: In His Own Words” has played at Stone Mountain, Georgia’s ART Station to sold out audiences for the past eleven seasons. Over the past decade the show has sold out over 850 shows across the United States. Bill Oberst, Jr. pays respect and honors Lewis Grizzard with the best of Grizzard’s stand-up comedy and selections from his books and columns.
Four wives, 450 daily newspapers, millions of fans, hundreds of concerts, oceans of vodka, thousands of prayers, and at the beginning and the end of it all, Moreland, Georgia. Always Moreland, the tiny town that time forgot and Lewis embellished. It was his Mayberry, his Lake Wobegon. Like Twain before him, Grizzard used the sense of his youth to weave tales that were always truth and even when they weren’t exactly fact; “this generation’s Mark Twain,” Check out an excerpt on the right by clicking the image.
Doc Lawrence has already hit the road for our annual Tailgating series. First Knoxville and the University of Tennessee followed by visits to Tuscaloosa, Tallahassee, Chapel Hill, Charlottesville, Nashville, Oxford, Athens and many more college football venues where the food is some of the nation’s best, the wines are divine and Jack Daniel’s and Jim Beam are fashioned into some wonderful cocktails.
It isn’t possible for all our favorite teams to win, (that would be our wish), but we can wish all our followers and fans a new season filled with happy days, great things from the grill and toasts saluting friendship and good will. It’s a way of life down South!
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