More Georgia ....

First thing .... I'm freezing.  ha.  I asked some Atlantaians (?) if these temps are normal - NO - they are freezing too!  It hasn't gotten over 40 degrees this week, with lows at 20 degrees.  I'm burning through my propane tank, that's for sure.  I refuse to go out sightseeing until it is at least freezing temps, so I don't get out until noon or later. 

This is the view from my campsite where I am staying these two weeks ...

Sad day sightseeing today between the Anne Frank exhibit and the Kennesnaw Battlefield and then onto Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Anne Frank in the World Exhibit in Sandy Springs, GA, highlights the young girl's short life from the 1930s to her untimely death in 1945. The exhibit features 600 photographs and 8000 words of text in an effort to display the worthiness of seeing the good in humanity.

Kennenaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

 Union General William Tecumseh Sherman began his 1864 Atlanta Campaign in early May, employing a series of flanking maneuvers to gain mile after mile of Confederate soil. By early June, he reached Marietta, and found that these tactics were ineffective against General Joseph Johnston's Confederate troops massed on Kennesaw Mountain, in the now-famous Kennesaw Line. On June 27, Sherman attacked the entrenched Confederates head-on at Kennesaw in a pitched, up-hill battle that proved disastrous for his Union forces. Sherman subsequently returned to his old strategy, successfully took Marietta, and pushed Johnston's troops back across the Chattahoochee River by mid-July. Johnston was replaced by General John Bell Hood, who took the offensive and pursued Sherman's troops with aggressive zeal, only to suffer immense casualties at Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro. Hood proved unable to defend Atlanta, which fell to the Union Army on September 2, 1864.

Concord Bridge was built 1872 and is 131 feet long. Still open to vehicular traffic, the area surrounding Concord Bridge is historic, including a Civil War battleground and Ruff's Mill.

 Although I drove around the campus several times, and there were numerous sculptures, I never found this one -
As a memorial to a well-known environmentalist, the Spaceship Earth Sculpture has a diameter of 15 feet and weighs 400,000 pounds. The sculpture is comprised of separate pieces of blue quartzite and contains a life-sized figure of David Brower, to whom the memorial is dedicated.

In Marietta, you may come across a huge red chicken poking out of the roof of a KFC. Do not be alarmed, as the chicken is there to catch your attention as it has done since 1963 when it brought hungry folks to Johnny Reb's Chick-Chuck-'N'-Shake. A few years later, the Chuck-'N'-Shake became a KFC and in 1993, KFC rebuilt the deteriorating chicken structure.

It was fun to see - the beak moves up and down and the eyes roll around ...

 Final stop ...

Located in the restaurant chain's first restaurant, the Waffle House Museum is open and features memorabilia from Waffle House's previous 54 years. Located in Decatur, this particular restaurant has been restored to its 1955 glory.