‘Wind’ carries visitors on tour of Mitchell’s South
HAZLEHURST, Ga. — Atlanta. June 1936. A few patches of the horse-and-buggy Old South remained as the once slow-moving city first named Terminus and then Marthasville began emerging into the glass-towered mega-metropolis that it is today.
But during that summer, a big book titled “Gone With the Wind” was published by a little lady named Margaret Mitchell — she stood just under 5 feet tall — and perhaps for one of the first times the Civil War was told from a woman’s perspective.
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