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PLANTING AND PLANNING
INVITING GARDENS
The Piedmont Gardeners again invite you to tour five local gar
dens of just regular people like you and me except that their gar
dens are further along. As the yardman of a club member, I feel it
my duty to tell you that this tour every year is an informal, unhur
ried pleasure. The Gardeners always arange for us to visit gardens
usually seen only by friends and families of the owners (who are
mostly from outside the club), so we get a rare behind-the-walls
glimpse at what can be done by people who love to wrest beauty
from the earth.
The locations this year are all pretty much in-town: Virginia
and Lee Daniel at 201 Rocky Ford Rd., off West Lake Drive; Marilyn
and Jack Kehoe at 190 Woodlawn Ave., off Milledge Avenue; Jill
Biskin at 165 Carlton Terrace, off Lumpkin Street; Janice and Bob
Matthews, at 655 Riverview Rd., off Lumpkin Street; and Dee Bee
Macaulay at 140 Moss Side Dr., off Jefferson Road. The first four
are all within an easy walk or bike ride in Five Points, and the fifth
is just past the perimeter, the farthest away—a 10-minute drive
by car.
The Tour is on Saturday, Apr. 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. You set your
own pace and itinerary. Tickets are S10 in advance, S12 the day of
the tour. Advance tickets can be purchased at Athens Seed, Lawn
& Garden; Charmar Flower & Gift Shop, Coferis Home & Garden and
Southern Comforts. If you buy in advance, you'll get a program
that includes a map showing the garden locations (street signs
point the way, too). If you buy the day of the tour, just show up
at one of the locations, and you'll get the program with the map
showing you where to go from there. The money you pay for tickets
goes to provide scholarships for students in fields like horticulture
and landscape architecture. See you in the garden.
EIGHT UNRELATED
The City Council of the nearby town of Social Circle has voted
unanimously to limit to eight the number of unrelated persons
living together in one residence. Maybe Social Circle will become
the new center of the Athens music scene—a place where rents
are relatively cheap and bands can live together—big bands, even,
though not as big as Dark Meat.
The Athens club scene sprang from cheap rents, but downtown
is increasing in value. The historic preservation designation, spotty
as it is, will inevitably drive up property values further, and so,
of course, will the continuing condominium craze. When rents for
musicians and for clubs finally become prohibitive, we've got to
have a fallback position. Social Circle may be the place. After our
Mayor and Commission constricted the allowable limit here to two
unrelated persons, there was some talk of loosening that require
ment in certain non-student neighborhoods, but nothing has come
of it. Wonder if the newly-constituted Commission has any interest
in re-visiting that can o' worms?
POLITICS AND PLANNING
I guess we can understand how people in Augusta are terrified
at locating even a part of the Medical College of Georgia here in
Athens on the Navy Supply Corps School property. Many first-rate
state universities include the state medical college on or near their
campuses, and it would make a lot of sense here, too. The Medical
College has been in Augusta since 1828, a time when Athens and
the University of Georgia barely existed and Augusta was the chief
upland city of the state. Of course, the Augusta people are going
to resist expanding their medical college into Athens and the UGA
sphere of influence. Hell, we're suspicious enough of that influ
ence ourselves right here in Athens. With the Navy School property
available and near our hospitals and campus, and with the state
needing more facilities for training medical personnel, an Athens
campus for the medical college looks like an obvious diagnosis.
The Georgia House of Representatives, however, reminded us force
fully last week that science has little to do with the location of
medical colleges. The House Appropriations Committee stripped
out of the state budget the money that Governor Perdue had put
in to begin preliminary planning for the UGA/ Medical College col
laboration on the Navy School campus. Where's the Chairman of
the Appropriations Committee from? You got it—Augusta. It's true
that there's plenty of time left for the Governor and the General
Assembly to fund the medical college here, but that.is a highly
political process in which Athens-Clarke County has little clout.
And let us not forget that prominent Republican State Senator Jim
Whitehead (also from the Augusta area) "joked" that UGA is run
by a bunch of liberals, and if it weren't for the football team, he’d
just as soon somebody bombed the school out of existence. He's
running for Congress in our district. Hah, hah.
Pete McCommons Editor & Publisher editor@flagpole.com
THIS WEEK’S ISSUE:
NEWS & FEATURES
“It’s All About Place”
Talking With Local Historian Steven Scurry
Scurry will be giving a talk on The Oconee War at the ACC Library this week.
ARTS <§s EVENTS
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Hadjii Brings His Award-winning Film Back to the South
Somebodies is being screened at the Atlanta Film Festival this week.
Lost Picture Show
Indie Film’s ‘It’ Girl
Two films starring up and coming indie star Abbie Cornish.
IMUSO©
No Rest For The Restless 28
Atlanta’s Outformation Spreads The Word, One Stop At A Time
After seven years as guitar tech for Widespread Panic. Sam Holt focuses on his band full time.
Liner Notes 30
A Fan’s Love For Panic Runs Deep
What inspires the obsessive fans of Widespread Panic?
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