Georgia Highlands College Student Life
Women’s History Month
Trip to the Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/explore/destinations/margaret-mitchell-house
Friday, March 9, 2018
Limited space is available for free van transportation. Contact the Student Life office at your GHC location to get van departure time and location. Once the vans fill, students will have the opportunity to carpool.
The Department of Student Life will provide entrance to the museum, and limited van transportation. We will visit the Sweet Hut & Café around the corner from the Mitchell House after the tour, and students are responsible for their own purchases.
To Sign-up: email the Student Life Office at studlife@highlands.edu and include your student ID number, name, campus, and cell phone number. Please include “Mitchell tour” in the subject line of the email!
STUDENTS MUST Sign-up BY March 1, 2018.
Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in November 1900. After a broken ankle immobilized her in 1926, Mitchell started writing a novel that would become Gone With the Wind. Published in 1936, Gone With the Wind made Mitchell an instant celebrity and earned her the Pulitzer Prize. The film version, also lauded far and wide, came out just three years later. More than 30 million copies of Mitchell’s Civil War masterpiece have been sold worldwide, and it has been translated into 27 languages.
Margaret Mitchell, Peggy Marsh to her friends, dubbed her apartment, “The Dump.” Surprisingly, it is in this shabby little apartment on the bottom floor that this petite, yet mighty woman wrote a big ‘ol book that sold faster than a duck on a June bug!
It is here that the notorious Peggy Marsh wrote Gone With the Wind. A Pulitzer Prize followed. Fame, fortune, and fans, too. Quite the character, she had opinions about how the film portrayed her book and she didn’t much like the attention, but she still responded to every single fan letter.
When you visit, you can learn about Peggy before, during, and after the book, about the movie, and about the film’s premiere in Atlanta – where the African American actors weren’t allowed.
You’ll also find out what made Peggy so notorious and why the “good girls” of Atlanta society didn’t let her join their club! Hear the stories of her first and second marriage, her scandalous dance performance, and the lasting legacy of her philanthropic work after the book.