In keeping with the posts about Halloween and Autumn, I'm sharing a few things about The Stone Mountain Tour of Southern Ghosts. Stone Mountain National Park in Stone Mountain, Georgia hosts a story-telling tour for Halloween. http://artstation.org/tosg/southernghosts.htm

Storytellers come to share their stories and guides make sure visitors don't miss a story or get lost. I serve as a guide. This is not my best look, but it's my costume.  Notice the fall color beginning to paint the trees.

 

The 3 ladies are part of the tour. The 2 ladies in yellow tell stories. The other is a guide. The young man tells stories and is as cute in person as he looks, his accent is delightfully southern, too. 

 

The barn area is dark, so I had to lighten the guitar playing storyteller, also very Southern. Tonight threatens to make me need a cape. More photos will follow here and on other blogs. Fall means I get to play with the ghosts of Stone Mountain.  How cool is that?

Good Sunday morning. I'm Mary Marvella Barfield, AKA Mary Marvella, the mama of this group blog and a writer. We hope you enjoy our week of giveaways. I'll be giving away a copy of each of my two e-books, Haunting Refrain and Forever Love.

Are you counting the days 'til Halloween? Have you seen enough Halloween candy in the stores, enough costumes, enough references to the evening kids hope to get enough candy to make any adult ill? Well today's blog is about a grown up is about adult candy. Yes we have prizes all week for folks who love to read.

This morning is a mite chilly, as we southerners might say. Even so, last night I wandered in a park listening to southern ghost stories. (I'm a story teller and I love stories.) Stone Mountain National Park is in the quaint historic town called Stone Mountain village, north of metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. The park is actually the mountain, and, yes, it is a rock, a HUGE rock, hence the name Stone Mountain. Within the park there is a plantation with buildings that allow visitors to feel they have gone back in time.





















The annual Tour of Southern Ghosts is my chance to hang with story tellers and walk around in a long skirt and enjoy people who like stories. The Stone Mountain ART Station provides the tellers and the guides. I am a guide. Last night it was cold, but the visitors didn't seem to mind.
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Tonight they will carry on without me, but I'll be back next weekend to hunt for ghosts and listen to wonderful stories.

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This week I'm participating in Small Blogs, Big Giveaways. There are 62 prizes (to be divided among 5 winners) and 6 gift cards being given away, and two of my books are among them:

Since giveaways are so much fun, the Pink Fuzzies are doing our own giveaways all week long. Come visit us every day and leave a comment, and you'll have a chance to win that day's prizes.
Here's the list of prizes we're offering:

Evil's Witness by Autumn Jordon (e-book)

To Love a Hero by Mona Risk (e-book)

French Peril by Mona Risk (e-book)

Forever Love by Mary Marvella (e-book)

Haunting Refrain by Mary Marvella (e-book)

Champagne for Two by Patrice Wilton (e-book)

All of Me by Patrice Wilton (e-book)

Tripping through Time by Mary Ricksen (signed paperback)

Red Bird's Song by Beth Trissel (e-book)

Enemy of the King by Beth Trissel (e-book)

Somewhere My Lass by Beth Trissel (e-book)

Tastes of Love and Evil by Barbara Monajem (signed paperback)

The Wanton Governess by Barbara Monajem (Kindle e-book)

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Back in Time.
Anyone want to spend a few minutes on a southern plantation around the time of the War of Northern Aggression? I hope the photos here will help you pretend, if you want to.



















Check out the photo on the right. Looks like a ghost story in the making. Play nice boys!


















Sitting by the privy or outhouse (latrine) isn't fun if you remember using an outhouse


Cookhouse

This is the first week in November and it's rainy and cool. Actually there are predictions for snow in the north Georgia Mountains. It could happen. This time last weekend I spent evenings outside, enjoying the old plantation replica. The sky was clear and I could count the stars. I was grateful that we didn't have rain, because the tour isn't called off because of rain, seriously. We worked in the rain last year.

The cookhouse is located in a garden. The flowers there are still blooming and there are cherry tomatoes ripe on their vines.


Imagine being the young lady sitting in front of the mansion.


More photos to follow. Part one was posted earlier, below Mona's post.

Could there be a ghost on these photos? Look closely at the clothing. Not exactly modern!

See the mountain in the background. It's all rock! In spite of the green trees, the evenings were cool and some nights were quite cold for October. There were a few leaves trying to change, but it is Georgia.