The November/December issue of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy's magazine, known as A.T. Journeys, has an article written by me about Fontana Village Resort. I'm real excited about it since it is my first published article.
Please check it out.

The photos in the article were taken by my fellow employee/Florida Cracker friend Craig Litz. I'm happy with the way it turned out and excited about the opportunity. There are other writing plans in the work for me here at Fontana Village. More details will be posted on those as they develop.

Again, you can check out the article here.

Fore more info on the Appalachian Trail visit www.appalachiantrail.org.

On the way back from Florida we decided to stop at the nearest National Park Service spot off of I75. Where we ended up going was Andersonville National Historic Site. This site once was the largest Civil War POW camp for Union soldiers. During the war over 45,000 soldiers were held captive here, and 12,920 of them died while imprisoned. Today you can visit the Cemetery of those who died.

This NH Site not only remembers the soldiers from the civil war, but it serves as a memorial to all American Prisoners of War. There was a great interactive museum on all the wars of America and their POW stories. In the museum you can see artifacts from these POW, such as Journals, locks, canteens, and shoes to name a few.

Since we stopped spur of the moment we really didn't get to plan out the visit. If I knew about one of their points of interest while there, we would have been sure to have seen it. In late August of 1864 conditions were at their worst. The prisoners were praying for their basic need of survival, water. A heavy thunderstorm came through saturating the land causing a spring to burst from the ground of the prison site. The POW named it Providence Spring.

If you are ever near Perry, Ga, you should be sure to take a little trip off the horrid I75 to Andersonville NHS.