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todayontumblr · 8 months

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Friday, August 25.

A tribute to the state of Georgia, USA.

Georgia, Georgia, Georgia. And what a fine state it is. For reasons unbeknownst to us, we found ourselves compelled to celebrate every last one of its 59,425 square miles when we awoke from nourishing slumber this morning and pulled the duvet from over our faces. As we drew back our collective curtains, we found our faces struck by magnificent morning light; a light all too reminiscent of those rich hues you only find down in that most famous of American states.

It's a state as beautiful as the name suggests, and with an embarrassment of riches to explore and enjoy: Stone Mountain Park, the cities of Atlanta, Athens, and Savannah, wild horses roaming Cumberland Island, its famous southern hospitality, its iconic peaches, The Varsity—the world's largest drive-in restaurant, Anna Ruby Falls, having your fingerprints taken, the World of Coca-Cola museum, the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ah, #georgia. There really is no place quite like it—it's not so much a state as a state of mind.

So if you find yourself in need of a holiday, whether a week's vacation, city break, or a few days hiking and camping in the best the natural world has to offer, you could do a lot worse than head down to the state of Georgia, USA. Don't forget to get a cute pic while you're there.

Say cheese x

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sitting-on-me-bum · 1 year

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The Old Mill by John On Time Via Flickr: Stone Mountain Park

#stone mountain park #grist mill #georgia #autumn #fall #flickr #john on time #photographer #lake #pond #landscape #nature

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sweetdreamsjeff · 2 months

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1995 ATLANTA EARTH DAY CONCERT POSTER - INDIGO GIRLS / JEFF BUCKLEY / MIKE WATT

2nd Annual Earth Day Benefit Concert PosterStone Mountain Park, Atlanta, GA - 4/22/95Indigo Girls / Jeff Buckley / G. Love & Special Sauce / Luscious Jackson / Mike WattSuper Rare and Extremely Hard To Find! Measures 23 inches from top to bottom and 17.5 inches across.Card Stock, excellent condition for a poster that is over 20 years old.

#jeff buckley #1995 Atlanta Earth Day Concert Poster #Apirl 22 1995 #Stone Mountain Park #empowering youths to make noticeable change #2nd annual eath day benefit concert poster #Atlanta GA #georgia #indigo irls #g. love & special sauce #luscious jackson #mike watt

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travelamazon · 2 years

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Top 6 Tourist Attractions in Mountain Park, Georgia

Mountain Park is located in Fulton County, Georgia. One small portion extends less that 1,000 feet into southeastern Cherokee County. At the 2020 census, 583 people lived in the city. Stone Mountain Park Stone Mountain Park Stone Mountain Park, Georgia is the most visited attraction. Nearly 4 million people visit it each year. Stone Mountain Park, which covers 3,200 acres of beautiful land in…

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#Hidden Acres Nature Preserve #Stone Mountain Park #Summit Skyride

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fallauween · 6 months

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Bridge over the Autumn river by Marcel Bisig

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spockvarietyhour · 4 months

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Stone Mountain Provincial Park, BC

#Stone Mountain Provincial Park #British Columbia #photography #places #hide and queue

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nakedinthecity · 1 year

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Sparky Ducks, 21.09.2021 Morskie Oko, Tatra Mountains

#ducks #poland #polska #tatra #tatra mountains #tatry #morskie oko #photographers on tumblr #photography #vysoke tatry #tatra national park #water #stones #rocks #canon

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reasoningdaily · 9 months

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GPB News: Civil rights groups condemn 'Soul Fest' concerts at Georgia park with giant Confederate carving

Civil rights groups are criticizing a concert series with Black performers dubbed "Soul Fest" that is being held at a Georgia park replete with Confederate imagery, including a giant carving of Confederate leaders.

Stone Mountain Park just outside Atlanta is where the Ku Klux Klan marked its rebirth in 1915. Its colossal, mountainside sculpture of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson is the largest Confederate monument ever crafted and has special protection enshrined in Georgia law.

The park has taken steps in recent years to try to soften its Confederate legacy and promote itself as a family site, but civil rights groups have said the moves fall way short of what's needed.

The "Soul Fest" concert series is a way to "normalize and sanitize" the hateful message of the park, said Atlanta NAACP President Richard Rose.

"They're saying, 'This is OK. Get used to it. It's cool,'" he said in a phone interview on Thursday.

Rose said he encouraged two of the bands to pull out of the event, but they told him they were under contract, and their music brings people together.

"The music can't bring people together in front of this icon of the Confederacy," he said.

Emails to the park and its management company, Thrive Attractions, were not immediately returned. In a news release earlier this month, the park promoted Soul Fest as a new event that would allow families to experience a "full day of fun." An ad for the event on the park's website featured a photo of a smiling Black man and Black woman on a lawn.

The event, which runs from Thursday night through Sunday night, features rhythm and blues groups, a gospel singer and a Prince cover band.

It's a "bad faith effort" to distance the park from the Confederacy, said Rivka Maizlish, a researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"It's an effort to pretend that the park is for everyone while still maintaining this massive symbol of white supremacy," she said. Some supporters of the carving say it is a tribute to their ancestors who fought in the Civil War, not a celebration of white power.

The park 15 miles (25 kilometers) northeast of downtown Atlanta attracts large numbers of tourists and other visitors interested in hiking to the top of the mountain, walking the grounds or seeing a light show. In 2021, the park's board voted to relocate Confederate flags from a busy walking trail and create a museum exhibit that relates the history of the site and the carving, which was completed in 1972 amid resistance to the civil rights movement and desegregation by Georgia and other Southern states.

The changes approved by the board came amid a national reckoning on race that brought down dozens of Confederate monuments in 2020.

The park, however, still maintains the giant carving, which measures 190 feet (58 meters) across and 90 feet (27 meters) tall. The Soul Fest concerts will take place on a lawn that faces the monument just months after a Confederate group gathered there.

"It's just so beyond obnoxious and disgusting and gross that they're hosting these artists now and trying to pull in a different audience," said Brian Morris, a member of the Stone Mountain Action Coalition, an advocacy group that has called on the park to stop maintaining the carving.

#Soulfest #Atlanta #Stone Mountain #confederate statuary #national park #confederate statues #kkk #civil rights #Civil rights groups condemn 'Soul Fest' concerts at Georgia park with giant Confederate carving #white supremacy

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seniouesbabes · 4 months

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Lily Maymac 🌸💋🍒🌸 Idaho, Montana & Wyoming mountains

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rabbitcruiser · 8 months

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Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park (No. 24)

Researchers have long theorized that Sun Temple contains solar, lunar and astronomical alignments in its placement and architecture, and Towers’ research suggests it could be far more complex than previously believed. But unraveling Sun Temple’s mysteries is made more difficult by the troubled history between researchers and the descendants of the people who built it.

Towers’ research uses computer modeling to theorize that Sun Temple is shot through with sight lines pointing not just to the rise and set of the sun at crucial dates, such as equinoxes and solstices, but to lunar cycles and an array of major stars that figure into Pueblo cosmology that may have its origins among the Ancestral Puebloans.

Towers has also further developed theories that Sun Temple’s construction incorporates advanced geometry, including a standard unit of measurement, and walls built to the proportions of the golden rectangle and Pythagorean 3:4:5 triangles.

“It’s sheer genius,” Towers said of Sun Temple’s construction. “The architect did this with no known writing or numerical system, no computers. They laid it out with yucca cords and sticks. They were the Michaelangelo of their time.”

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