Alice Walker Driving Tour Explore the life of popular author Alice Walker with the Alice Walker Driving Tour, a premier chance to see all the major landmarks of this legendary American author’s life. Alice Walker is most known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, though she was a highly accomplished woman outside of…
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Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia Farm
Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia [caption id="attachment_22515" align="alignright" width="425"] Andalusia Farm[/caption] Farm Just a short drive away from Atlanta you will find Milledgeville, former home of highly celebrated author, Flannery O’Connor. Here at the farm, you will learn all about the life of, O’Connor as well as the effort to ‘perpetuate her place on the roster of…
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Southern Literary Trail
Southern Literary Trail The Southern Literary Trail is America’s only tri-state literary trail ‘connecting mythic places that influenced great novelists and playwrights of the 20th Century’. Linking literary gold mines in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, the entire Southern Literary Trail continues the inspiration that lived along this path in the past, some of America’s greatest…
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Margaret Mitchell House
[caption id="attachment_22499" align="alignright" width="425"] Margaret Mitchell House[/caption] Margaret Mitchell House One of the most popular historic places to visit while in Atlanta is the Margaret Mitchell House, the home in which a majority of Gone With the Wind was written. The Mitchell House and Museum are located in Midtown near Peachtree Street, first built in…
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Robert Woodruff Library
Robert Woodruff Library [caption id="attachment_22500" align="alignright" width="425"] Robert Woodruff Library[/caption] Within the Atlanta University Center, you will find the highly regarded Robert Woodruff Library, ‘the world’s oldest consortium of historically black colleges and universities’. Open to the public and students alike from 7:30 am to 12 am, this widely used resource center serves as a…
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The Best Eco Trips from AST
Teachers, students, and chaperones alike, are you looking for that perfect eco-journey to take this summer? Let AST help, we have all the finest U.S eco-trips available! We have put together some of the most educational and entertaining tours regarding all that is ecotourism. We believe volunteering, exploring, and learning within our natural world is…
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Castle Noel
Castle Noel The largest American indoor Christmas entertainment complex, complete with movie sets, props, and costumes, will begin your second day. Located on Court Street in Medina, this year-round ‘fantasy world’ will show your group the world’s largest privately-owned collection of Hollywood Christmas movie props and costumes, from such popular holiday movies as The Grinch,…
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Mapleside Farms
Mapleside Farms At Mapleside Farms your group will have the chance to visit an fully functioning apple orchard, farm stand, and even an ‘American comfort food restaurant’. This farm is open from 9-6 each day, offering guests the chance to see the apple house, washing station, and sorting and production rooms, a truly educational opportunity…
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The Nautica Queen
The Nautica Queen Lunch, perfect skyline views and an essentially Cleveland experience await your group aboard the Nautica Queen, one of the most popular seaside attractions in the area. You will be able to enjoy this luxury cruise dining vessel, the premier waterfront dining experience in Cleveland, within 2 enclosed deck and a spacious open-air…
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First Landing State Park
First Landing State Park First Landing State Park is one of the most recreations filled spots in Virginia Beach, a Cape Henry shining gem that allows your group to participate in hiking, biking, boating, fishing, picnicking, and just plain ol’ natural sightseeing. Located along Shore Drive in northern Virginia Beach, this spot is open from…
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