query: what was the name of the plantation in gone with the wind

pos: Tara (plantation) Tara (plantation) Tara is the name of a fictional plantation in the state of Georgia, in the historical novel "Gone with the Wind" (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. In the story, Tara is located from Jonesboro (originally spelled Jonesborough), in Clayton County, on the east side of the Flint River about south of Atlanta. Mitchell modeled Tara after local plantations and antebellum establishments, particularly the Clayton County plantation on which her maternal grandmother, Annie Fitzgerald Stephens (1844–1934), the daughter of Irish immigrant Philip Fitzgerald (1798–1880) and his American wife, Eleanor Avaline "Ellen" McGhan (1818–1893), was born and raised. However, the original

pos: Tara (plantation) plantation house of the Fitzgeralds, which was known as "Rural Home," a two-story wooden structure, was not as palatial and glamorous as the one described in the novel and/or depicted in the 1939 movie "Gone with the Wind". Twelve Oaks, a neighboring plantation in the novel, is now the name of many businesses and a high school stadium in nearby Lovejoy, Georgia. In "Gone with the Wind", Tara was founded by Irish immigrant Gerald O'Hara after he won or one square mile of land from its absentee owner during an all-night poker game. An Irish peasant farmer rather than the

pos: Gone with the Wind (novel) she wonders to herself if her home on a plantation called "Tara" is still standing, or if it had "gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia." In a general sense, the title is a metaphor for the demise of a way of life in the South prior to the Civil War. When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about "Cynara," the phrase "gone with the wind" alludes to erotic loss. The poem expresses the regrets of someone who has lost his passionate feelings for his "old passion," Cynara. Dowson's Cynara, a name that comes from the Greek

pos: Tara Theatre Tara Theatre The Tara Theatre is an art house movie theater located in Atlanta. The theater specializes in the showing of independent films, the only theater in Atlanta to do so exclusively. The Tara Theatre was opened in June 1968 by Loew's Theatres. It embodies the modernist architecture popular at the time. Originally called Loew's Tara, the theater's name memorializes the fictional Tara plantation, home of the O'Hara family in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind". Tara opened with a 70mm, stereophonic presentation of the film Gone with the Wind on its 60-foot screen. This single screen with seating

pos: Tara (plantation) in the "Los Angeles Times" chronicled the demolition of the mansion and relied on the false information given by the tour guides. This news report only furthered the confusion over the true whereabouts of the actual Tara set. Now the Tara facade is still located at Talmadge Farms in Lovejoy, Georgia and is being resurrected. Tara (plantation) Tara is the name of a fictional plantation in the state of Georgia, in the historical novel "Gone with the Wind" (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. In the story, Tara is located from Jonesboro (originally spelled Jonesborough), in Clayton County, on the east side

pos: Clayton County, Georgia most Democratic counties in the state. It has given the Democratic presidential candidate over 80% of the vote in every election since 2008. Parts of Margaret Mitchell's epic 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind" and the famous 1939 motion picture "Gone with the Wind" were set in Clayton County, including the location of the fictional plantation, Tara. Tara Boulevard was named for the plantation, and is the main north/south road through the county, carrying U.S. 41 and lesser-known State Route 3. Parts of the novels "Rhett Butler's People" and "Scarlett" and the "Scarlett" TV Mini-Series also took place in Clayton

pos: Tara (given name) Tara (given name) Tara is a given name with multiple meanings in different cultures. The name is popular in Ireland and Australia. It was popular in the United States during the 1970s, probably due to Tara being the name of the O'Hara's plantation in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind", and the characters Tara King in the 1960s British television series "The Avengers" and Tara Martin on the American soap opera "All My Children" in the early 1970s. In Ireland, from 2000–2005 it ranked between the 30th and 40th most popular girl's name. Since 1968 the name Tara is

pos: Gone with the Wind (novel) word for artichoke, represents a lost love. "Gone with the Wind" takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877). The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states initially, including Georgia, have declared their secession from the United States (the "Union") and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy"), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The Union refuses to accept secession and no compromise is found as war approaches. The novel opens April 15, 1861, at "Tara," a plantation owned by

pos: Gone with the Wind (novel) defined to mean "vitality" (red) and "rebirth" (green). Mitchell interwove the two colors into her description of the Tara plantation: "red fields with springing green cotton". The red fields are "blood-colored after rains". The whitewashed brick plantation house is virtually nondescript by comparison to the plantation fields and sits like an island in a sea of red. In springtime, the lawn around the plantation house turns emerald green. For the Irish and others, green in the novel represents Mitchell's commemoration of her "Green Irish heritage." Gerald O'Hara pridefully sings "The Wearin 'o the Green". Scarlett's green-coded Irish identity is the

pos: County Meath a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site. In Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone With The Wind", it is mentioned that Gerald O'Hara, Scarlett O'Hara's father, was born in County Meath. Tara is the name of the Georgia plantation on which the O'Hara family resided. Famous Anglo-Irish MP Charles Stewart Parnell was elected member of parliament for Meath in Westminster in 1875 until 1880. Today he is locally commemorated by a small garden and courtyard in Kells town centre. The population in Co. Meath has been characterised since 1861 as being in a period of significant decline. Between 1861 and 1901 the population almost

pos: Gone with the Wind (novel) class in Mitchell's caste system. The field slaves from the Tara plantation and the foreman, Big Sam, are taken away by Confederate soldiers to dig ditches and never return to the plantation. Mitchell wrote that other field slaves were "loyal" and "refused to avail themselves of the new freedom", but the novel has no field slaves who stay on the plantation to work after they have been emancipated. American William Wells Brown escaped from slavery and published his memoir, or slave narrative, in 1847. He wrote of the disparity in conditions between the house servant and the field hand: During

pos: Gone with the Wind (musical) the production would close on 14 June 2008, after 79 performances, adding that "plans for a New York production are currently on hold." In 1861 Atlanta, Georgia, 16-year-old Scarlett is the eldest of three daughters living a life of luxury on their father's plantation, Tara. The slaves are working ("Born to be Free"), and Scarlett discovers that Ashley Wilkes, who she secretly loves, is to marry his cousin, Melly Hamilton. Scarlett's father returns home ("On Your Land"), and the family hold evening prayers ("Mrs O'Hara's Prayer"). Scarlett dresses for the barbecue at the Wilkes' plantation. The guests arrive ("Good Time

pos: Gone with the Wind (film) Selznick and his associates regarded as "too dark"—was replaced with Ernest Haller, working with Technicolor cinematographer Ray Rennahan. Garmes completed the first third of the film—mostly everything prior to Melanie having the baby—but did not receive a credit. Most of the filming was done on "the back forty" of Selznick International with all the location scenes being photographed in California, mostly in Los Angeles County or neighboring Ventura County. Tara, the fictional Southern plantation house, existed only as a plywood and papier-mâché facade built on the Selznick studio lot. For the burning of Atlanta, new false facades were built in

pos: Tara VanDerveer eight NCAA Women's Basketball coaches to win over 900 games, and one of ten NCAA Division I coaches – men's or women's – to win 1,000 games. VanDerveer was born on June 26, 1953, to Dunbar and Rita VanDerveer, who named their first child "Tara" after the plantation in "Gone with the Wind". She was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, a part of Greater Boston, but grew up in a small town in West Hill, near Schenectady, New York. Her parents were interested in a well-rounded education. Her father was studying for a doctorate at the school now known as the

pos: RKO Forty Acres is "Hell's Kitchen". The property on which the backlot was located was originally intended to be a lease for Cecil B. DeMille’s production of the 1927 film "The King of Kings". On it he constructed the historical City of Jerusalem, which remained for the RKO production of "King Kong" in 1933. By then it was known as Forty Acres and owned by RKO Pictures. In 1935, David O. Selznick leased the property from RKO for his new studio, Selznick International Pictures. For his 1939 production of "Gone with the Wind", the plantation Tara, the Atlanta Depot (based on Atlanta's 1853

pos: Tara (plantation) cut up the set and sell rectangular sections along with a picture of Tara and a certificate of authenticity. Talmadge eventually decided to keep the Tara set, and it remained in storage at the time of her death in 2005. For years the set was also thought to have existed on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's backlot #2 in Culver City, CA. This urban myth was the result of former MGM tour guides who had been instructed to mislead tourists into thinking that a southern mansion set on backlot #2 was the famed "Gone with the Wind" set. In fact, years later an article

pos: Culver Studios build full-scale outdoor sets. The Back Forty, also known as Forty Acres, sat on a triangular plot of land a few blocks from the main lot. It was initially leased from landowner Harry Culver during Cecil B. DeMille's tenure and was continuously used to build the plantation Tara, the Atlanta Depot and other Atlanta buildings in "Gone With the Wind" (1939). The Back Forty also provided the backdrop for several television shows broadcast during the 1960s, including "The Andy Griffith Show", "", and "Bonanza". The land is no longer connected to the Culver Studios and currently serves as an office

pos: Rose Porteous look and act like a much younger man, belying his eight decades. As "The Age" put it, "Rose made Lang feel younger, sprucing up his wardrobe, dying his hair and getting rid of his cane". Together they built the "Prix d'Amour", a lavish 16-block mansion overlooking the Swan River. The mansion, which was modelled after Tara, the plantation mansion in the movie "Gone with the Wind", was the setting for many large parties at which Hancock and Porteous would "dance into the night". As the marriage wore on, however, the relationship between Hancock and Porteous began to break down. Rumours

pos: Lang Hancock mansion, which was modelled after Tara, the plantation mansion from the movie "Gone with the Wind", was the setting for many large parties at which Hancock and Porteous would "dance into the night". As the marriage wore on, however, the relationship between Lang and Rose began to break down. Rinehart would later claim that Hancock's bride had paid little attention to his worsening health, but had instead "screeched at him for money". Although there were many quarrels, the Hancocks remained married until Lang's death in 1992. On 25 June 1992, less than three months after Hancock's death, Porteous married for

pos: Jonesboro, Georgia "Smokey and the Bandit" were filmed in Jonesboro. Another 1977 movie, the obscure 'In Hot Pursuit (aka The Polk County Pot Plane), was filmed in and around Jonesboro. Tara, the fictional plantation in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" was supposed to be located approximately five miles outside of Jonesboro, the closest town. "We Are Marshall" was briefly filmed at Tara Stadium in Jonesboro. The stadium was changed from green to light blue and light yellow for the scene. Lynyrd Skynyrd's "(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)" album cover was photographed near the corner of Mill and Main streets. Clayton County Public

pos: Stately Oaks Tara, the legendary home of Scarlett O'Hara and her family in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind". Stately Oaks Stately Oaks Plantation is a Greek Revival antebellum mansion located in Margaret Mitchell Memorial Park in Jonesboro, Georgia. Built in 1839, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is also known as Orr House, The Oaks, and Robert McCord House and it is included in the Jonesboro Historic District. Stately Oaks is owned by Historical Jonesboro/Clayton County Inc., and features the period house, the home's separate log kitchen, a well house, a tenant

pos: Smith College to live in on-campus houses unless they reside locally with their family. This policy is intended to add to the camaraderie and social cohesion of its students. Unlike most institutions of its type, Smith College does not have dorms, but rather 36 separate houses, ranging in architectural style from 18th-century to contemporary. It is rumored the architecture of Chapin House was the inspiration for the Tara Plantation House in "Gone with the Wind". (Author Margaret Mitchell went to Smith for one year and lived in Chapin.) Two recent additions to the campus, both of which enhance its sense of community,

pos: Hattie McDaniel prominently in the program. For her performance as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), and scoffs at Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), McDaniel won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first black American to win an Oscar. She was the first black American to have been nominated. "I loved Mammy," McDaniel said when speaking to the white press about the character. "I think I understood her because my own grandmother worked on a plantation not unlike Tara." Her role in "Gone with the Wind" had alarmed some whites in the South;

pos: Gone with the Wind (novel) house and possibly rape Scarlett and Melanie. Scarlett kills him with Charles's pistol, and sees that Melanie had also prepared to fight him with a sword. A long post-war succession of Confederate soldiers returning home stop at Tara to find food and rest. Eventually, Ashley returns from the war, with his idealistic view of the world shattered. Life at Tara slowly begins to recover, but then new taxes are levied on the plantation. Scarlett knows only one man with enough money to help her: Rhett Butler. She looks for him in Atlanta only to learn that he is in jail.

pos: Flint River (Georgia) Shoals to Hightower Shoals. In "Gone With the Wind," author Margaret Mitchell describes the Flint River as bordering the fictional plantation Tara. American country music singer Luke Bryan, a native of Georgia, references the river in his songs "That's My Kind of Night"; "Huntin', Fishin' & Lovin' Every Day"; and "We Rode in Trucks". Flint River (Georgia) The Flint River is a river in the U.S. state of Georgia. The river drains of western Georgia, flowing south from the upper Piedmont region south of Atlanta to the wetlands of the Gulf Coastal Plain in the southwestern corner of the state.

pos: Twelve Oaks 1864; Scarlett finds a straggling cow in the ruins of the home and enough beans and turnips for a meal from its slave quarters gardens but otherwise it is a total loss. Presumably the lands are lost to the same taxes that necessitate Scarlett's marriage to Frank Kennedy to save Tara. The representation of the plantation house at Tara in the film "Gone with the Wind" corresponds more or less to the description of the house in the novel. The portrayal of the mansion at Twelve Oaks in the film is exaggerated and bears more resemblance to the Colonial Revival

pos: Gone with the Wind (film) century and became ingrained in popular culture. The film is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time; it has placed in the top ten of the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 American films since the list's inception in 1998; and, in 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes—whom she secretly loves—is to be

pos: Georgia State Route 920 counties. In honor of the late founder of Chick-fil-A, the majority of the route is signed as the S. Truett Cathy Highway. The route's western terminus is a junction with SR 54 in Fayetteville. From here, McDonough–Fayetteville Road travels east as a two-lane road (one in each direction), crossing the Flint River into the southern part of Clayton County. The road takes a winding path through the area theorized to be the setting for the Tara plantation in the novel "Gone with the Wind" after crossing the river. It passes to the north of Lovejoy High School before coming to

pos: Gone with the Wind (film) Day", "Ringo De Banjo", "Beautiful Dreamer", "Old Folks at Home", and "Katie Belle", which formed the basis of Scarlett's theme; other tunes that feature prominently are: "Marching through Georgia" by Henry Clay Work, "Dixie", "Garryowen", and "The Bonnie Blue Flag". The theme that is most associated with the film today is the melody that accompanies Tara, the O'Hara plantation; in the early 1940s, "Tara's Theme" formed the musical basis of the song "My Own True Love" by Mack David. In all, there are ninety-nine separate pieces of music featured in the score. Due to the pressure of completing on time,

pos: Gone with the Wind (film) Despite receiving top-billing in the opening credits, Gable—along with Leigh, Howard, and de Havilland who receive second, third, and fourth billing respectively—has a relatively low placing in the cast list, due to its unusual structure. Rather than ordered by conventional billing, the cast is broken down into three sections: the Tara plantation, Twelve Oaks, and Atlanta. The cast's names are ordered according to the social rank of the characters; therefore Thomas Mitchell, who plays Gerald O'Hara, leads the cast list as the head of the O'Hara family, while Barbara O'Neil as his wife receives the second credit and Vivien Leigh

pos: Gone with the Wind (musical) asks Scarlett to be his mistress ("I'm Your Man" (reprise)), but she refuses. Melly goes into labour, but the doctor is busy with wounded soldiers. Prissy knows nothing about childbirth, so Scarlett is left to deliver the baby herself. The Yankee army is very near, so Prissy finds Rhett, and they all flee the burning city. Outside Atlanta, stung by Scarlett's words, Rhett goes off to join the army, kissing her as he leaves. Scarlett makes her way back to Tara, but discovers that her mother has died, and her father is mad with grief. She walks to Ashley's plantation

neg: The Wind Done Gone original's title. Cynara's name comes from the Ernest Dowson poem "Non sum qualís eram bonae sub regno Cynarae", a line from which ("I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind") was the origin of Mitchell's novel's title. "Gone with the Wind" revolves around Scarlett O'Hara, a pampered Southern woman, who lives through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. "The Wind Done Gone" is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation and the daughter of Scarlett's father and Mammy. Sold from the O'Haras, Cynara eventually makes her way back to Atlanta

neg: Gone with the Wind (film) Gone with the Wind (film) Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner. It follows her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler.

neg: Alice Randall Wind Done Gone" essentially tells the same story as "Gone with the Wind" but from the viewpoint of Scarlett O'Hara's half-sister Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation. Randall and her publishing company, Houghton Mifflin, were sued in April 2001 by Mitchell's estate on the grounds that "The Wind Done Gone" infringed the copyright of "Gone with the Wind". The lawsuit was eventually settled, allowing "The Wind Done Gone" to be published with the addition of a label describing it as "An Unauthorized Parody". In addition, Houghton Mifflin agreed to make a financial contribution to the Morehouse College, a historically

neg: Went with the Wind! five hours watching "Gone with the Wind" make its TV debut. So for those of you who ran out of Kleenex and were unable to watch it, we put together our own mini-version to let you know what you’ve missed. Uh-huh". The title card of the first half of the sketch reads WENT WITH THE WIND! and ATLANTA, TERRA PLANTATION SOMEWHERE IN GEORGIA. In the opening scene, Starlet O'Hara is hosting a party and greets her guests. Sissy, her house servant, comes in screaming "Miss Starlet! Miss Starlet!", wondering what to do; Starlet slaps Sissy, who then calms and says

neg: Twelve Oaks Kurtz, an Atlanta historian and Civil War authority who was in Hollywood consulting with the set designers of "Gone With the Wind", saying, "I like this for Ashley's home," referring to Twelve Oaks." In David O Selznik's "Gone with the Wind", the article is posted next to Twelve Oaks in the movie, so you can see a comparison of how Margaret Mitchell's inspiration materialized. Twelve Oaks In Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind", Twelve Oaks is the plantation home of the Wilkes family in Clayton County, Georgia named for the twelve great oak trees that surround the family mansion

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) paperback edition featuring the book's original jacket art. The Windies are ardent "Gone with the Wind" fans who follow all the latest news and events surrounding the book and film. They gather periodically in costumes from the film or dressed as Margaret Mitchell. Atlanta, Georgia is their meeting place. One story of the legacy of "Gone with the Wind" is that people worldwide incorrectly think it was the "true story" of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The film adaptation of the novel "amplified this effect." The plantation legend was "burned"

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) Gone with the Wind (novel) Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea". This historical novel features a "Bildungsroman" or coming-of-age story, with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson. "Gone

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) because it is thought to contain some degree of pornography. Slavery in "Gone with the Wind" is a backdrop to a story that is essentially about other things. Southern plantation fiction (also known as Anti-Tom literature, in reference to reactions to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of 1852) from the mid-19th century, culminating in "Gone With the Wind", is written from the perspective and values of the slaveholder and tends to present slaves as docile and happy. The characters in the novel are organized into two basic groups along class lines: the white planter class, such as

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) picks up where Ripley's "Scarlett" ended, the next one is about Scarlett's daughter Cat. Other books include a prequel trilogy about Scarlett's grandmother Solange and a three-part miniseries of a supposed illegitimate daughter of Carreen. Gone with the Wind (novel) Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) with the Wind" was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the second favorite book of American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide. Written from the perspective of the slaveholder, "Gone with the Wind" is Southern plantation fiction. Its portrayal of slavery and African Americans has been considered controversial, especially by succeeding generations, as well as its use of a racial epithet and ethnic slurs common to the period. However, the

neg: Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier Woman" (1942) was a bestseller that she dedicated to her husband Stuart Chevalier, a descendant of the family of J. E. B. Stuart. The story's setting is the South after the American Civil War and appeared to be modeled after "Gone with the Wind". The plot focuses on the life of a girl who inherits a southern tobacco plantation. The movie rights to "Drivin' Woman" were sold to MGM for $60,000 before she finished writing it – probably in part due to the success of the film adaptation of "Gone with the Wind"; however, it was never made into a

neg: John Wind The current monumental house, open to the public at Pebble Hill, is not a Wind design. John Spain was the stepson of Thomas Jones brother, Major Francis Jones. Also circa 1850, Spain hired John Wind to design what later was named Eudora Plantation, east of Thomasville in what is now Brooks County. It included a full-facade portico with entablature supported by six two-story, fluted Doric columns made of cypress. The entablature continued around the house and included carved brackets that appear to support the eaves. Unlike Wind's other plantation homes, Eudora did not include a pediment. It did have other

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) the two ethnic groups are not equivalent in the ethnic hierarchy of the novel. The novel has been criticized for promoting plantation values. Mitchell biographer Marianne Walker, author of "Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone with the Wind", believes that those who attack the book on these grounds have not read it. She said that the popular 1939 film "promotes a false notion of the Old South". Mitchell was not involved in the screenplay or film production. James Loewen, author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong", says this novel

neg: Band of Angels melodrama, directed by Raoul Walsh, bears some thematic resemblance to 'Gone With the Wind', in dealing with issues of race and miscegenation, set against the backdrop of the Civil War." Band of Angels Band of Angels is a 1957 romantic drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. It starred Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo and Sidney Poitier. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh. Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is the privileged daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after

neg: Rhett Butler Rhett Butler Rhett Butler is a fictional character based on a historical figure of the same name and the true protagonist of "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. As the novel begins, we first meet Rhett at the Twelve Oaks Plantation barbecue, the home of John Wilkes and his son Ashley and daughters Honey and India Wilkes. The novel describes Rhett as "a visitor from Charleston", a black sheep who was expelled from West Point and is not received by any family with reputation in the whole of Charleston, and perhaps all of South Carolina. On her way back

neg: Gone with the Wind (film) the Klan in the film by referring to it only as a "political meeting". Thomas Cripps reasons that the film in some respects undercuts racial stereotypes; in particular, the film created greater engagement between Hollywood and black audiences, with dozens of movies making small gestures in recognition of the emerging trend. Only a few weeks after its initial run, a story editor at Warner wrote a memorandum to Walter Wanger about "Mississippi Belle", a script that contained the worst excesses of plantation films, suggesting that "Gone with the Wind" had made the film "unproducible". More than any film since "The

neg: Clayton County, Georgia County. "Rhett Butler's People" is a prequel, sequel, and companion to "Gone with the Wind". "Scarlett" is a sequel to "Gone with the Wind", also and also takes place briefly in Clayton County. In the above-mentioned novels, the fictional Twelve Oaks Plantation and others mentioned in the novels above, are located in and around Clayton County. The 2012 film "Flight" features Clayton County throughout the film, with Hall's Flying Ranch in Hampton, Georgia, doubling as Denzel Washington's character's childhood home. Parts of the film "Smokey and the Bandit" were also shot in and around Clayton County, namely in Jonesboro, as

neg: Lost Cause of the Confederacy for war). The Lost Cause view reached tens of millions of Americans in the best-selling 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell and the Oscar-winning 1939 film. Helen Taylor has written that: "Gone with the Wind" has almost certainly done its ideological work. It has sealed in popular imaginations a fascinated nostalgia for the glamorous southern plantation house and ordered hierarchical society in which slaves are 'family,' and there is a mystical bond between the landowner and the rich soil those slaves work for him. It has spoken eloquently—albeit from an elitist perspective—of the grand themes (war, love,

neg: The Wind Done Gone builders, "Twelve Slaves Strong as Trees". The estate of Margaret Mitchell sued Randall and her publishing company, Houghton Mifflin, on the grounds that "The Wind Done Gone" was too similar to "Gone with the Wind", thus infringing its copyright. The case attracted numerous comments from leading scholars, authors, and activists, regarding what Mitchell's attitudes would have been and how much "The Wind Done Gone" copies from its predecessor. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated an injunction against publishing the book in "Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin" (2001), the case was settled in 2002 when Houghton Mifflin

neg: The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming and Sam Wood. Each had their own vision and the strong-willed men often clashed. "The Making of a Legend" brings up many of the "what ifs?" that arose as different scenarios were discussed. Among these were the possibilities of Errol Flynn and Gary Cooper as Rhett Butler. The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind is a 1988 documentary outlining the successes and challenges of the casting, filming, and legacy of the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind", from concept to finished product. The documentary focuses on David

neg: Greenwood Plantation in 1944 by his son Jock Whitney, who was responsible for arranging the financing for the movie version of "Gone with the Wind", which premiered in Atlanta in December 1939, with Jock Whitney in attendance. The plantation reportedly served as "a model of southern elegance for the movie." In 1942, Jock married Betsey Cushing, former wife of James Roosevelt. The Whitneys, who also owned a number of other homes in New York and England, regularly visited Greenwood as their winter home, often bringing their thoroughbred race horses with them. Jock served as the American ambassador to the Court of St.

neg: Brookland Plantation Brookland Plantation Brookland Plantation is a plantation located on Edisto Island, South Carolina along Shingle Creek. Brookland Plantation (often written as Brooklands Plantation) existed on Edisto Island at least by the late 18th century. During that period, Brookland Plantation was the home of Joseph and Martha Jenkins; their graves are located at Brookland Plantation. The current plantation house, however, was built later. The core of the house was built of black cypress, and its side pavilions were added later. Long-gone slave cabins once stood between what are now grand old oak trees. The house was perhaps built between 1800 and

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) inaccuracies of the novel, historian Richard N. Current points out: No doubt it is indeed unfortunate that "Gone with the Wind" perpetuates many myths about Reconstruction, particularly with respect to blacks. Margaret Mitchell did not originate them and a young novelist can scarcely be faulted for not knowing what the majority of mature, professional historians did not know until many years later. In "Gone with the Wind", Mitchell explores some complexities in racial issues. Scarlett was asked by a Yankee woman for advice on who to appoint as a nurse for her children; Scarlett suggested a "darky", much to the

neg: Gone with the Wind (film) Birth of a Nation", it unleashed a variety of social forces that foreshadowed an alliance of white liberals and blacks who encouraged the expectation that blacks would one day achieve equality. According to Cripps, the film eventually became a template for measuring social change. In 2017, "Gone with the Wind" was pulled from the schedule at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee after a 34-year run of annual showings due to its perceived racially insensitive content. One of the most notorious and widely condemned scenes in "Gone with the Wind" depicts what is now legally defined as "marital rape". The

neg: George Reeves in the film's credits as Brent Tarleton), one of Scarlett O'Hara's suitors in "Gone with the Wind". It was a minor role, but he and Fred Crane were in the film's opening scene. (Reeves and Crane both dyed their hair red to portray the Tarleton twins.) Reeves was contracted to Warner Brothers soon after being cast. Warner changed his professional name to George Reeves. His "Gone with the Wind" screen credit reflects the change. Between the start of "Gone With the Wind" production and its release 12 months later, several films on his Warner contract were made and released, making

neg: Gone with the Wind (film) 1990s, when a sequel was finally produced in 1994, in the form of a television miniseries. "Scarlett" was based upon the novel by Alexandra Ripley, itself a sequel to Mitchell's book. British actors Joanne Whalley and Timothy Dalton were cast as Scarlett and Rhett, and the series follows Scarlett's relocation to Ireland after again becoming pregnant by Rhett. Explanatory notes Citations Further reading Gone with the Wind (film) Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick

neg: Gone with the Wind (musical) Gone with the Wind (musical) Gone with the Wind is a musical based on the Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name and its 1939 film adaptation, with music and lyrics by Margaret Martin, and a book by Martin, adapted by Sir Trevor Nunn. It began previews on 5 April 2008 and officially opened at the New London Theatre in London's West End on 22 April 2008. The production was directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and featured sets by John Napier and costumes by Andreane Neofitu. Darius Danesh and Jill Paice starred as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara respectively. The

neg: Isle of Canes the history of one Isle landmark, Melrose Plantation. Critical assessments of "Isle of Canes" focus on its upturning of stereotypes. "Contemporary Lit" describes the focus as ""Gone with the Wind" from a vastly different, more important perspective ... not that of the plantation owner or the poor white ... but "homme de couleur libre" and slave ... capturing the agonizing decisions which tore families and communities apart." "Historical Novels Review" similarly observes, "The Metoyers, a historical family both black and white and yet neither, challenge all perceptions of racial boundaries. You may never look at American History the same way

neg: Ashley Wilkes forever has turned his world upside down, with everything he had believed in 'gone with the wind', a phrase composed by the poet Ernest Dowson. Ashley Wilkes George Ashley Wilkes is a fictional character in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind" and the later film of the same name. The character also appears in the 1991 book "Scarlett", a sequel to "Gone with the Wind" written by Alexandra Ripley, and in "Rhett Butler's People" by Donald McCaig. Ashley is the man with whom Scarlett O'Hara is obsessed. Gentlemanly yet indecisive, he loves Scarlett, but finds he has more

neg: Butterfly McQueen always hated her birth name, and later legally changed her name to Butterfly McQueen.) She performed with the dance troupe of Katherine Dunham before making her professional debut in George Abbott's "Brown Sugar". In 1975, at age 64, McQueen received a bachelor's degree in political science from New York City College. McQueen was appearing on the Broadway stage in the comedy "What a Life" in 1938 when she was spotted by Kay Brown, talent scout for David O. Selznick, then in pre-production for "Gone With the Wind" (eventually released in 1939). Brown recommended that McQueen audition for the film. After

neg: Gone with the Wind (musical) and Paice: "The diabolically dashing Darius Danesh brings a seductively insolent charm, a dark velvet voice and a genuine, fugitive pathos to the cynical blockade runner. If Jill Paice hasn't quite nailed the comic, outrageously feline wiliness of Scarlett, she boasts the bright, soaring vocal quality to convey the heroine's indomitable survivor's drive." "The Sunday Times" wrote, "Frankly, I fear, you won't give a damn." Gone with the Wind (musical) Gone with the Wind is a musical based on the Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name and its 1939 film adaptation, with music and lyrics by Margaret Martin, and

neg: Scarlett O'Hara Scarlett O'Hara Katie Scarlett O'Hara is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind" and in the later film of the same name. She also is the main character in the 1970 musical "Scarlett" and the 1991 book "Scarlett", a sequel to "Gone with the Wind" that was written by Alexandra Ripley and adapted for a television mini-series in 1994. During early drafts of the original novel, Mitchell referred to her heroine as "Pansy," and did not decide on the name "Scarlett" until just before the novel went to print. O'Hara is

neg: Howard Hickman Howard Hickman Howard Charles Hickman (February 9, 1880 – December 31, 1949) was an American actor, director and writer. He was an accomplished stage leading man, who entered films through the auspices of producer Thomas H. Ince. Hickman directed 19 films and co-starred with his wife, actress Bessie Barriscale, in several productions before returning to the theatre. With the rise of the sound film, Hickman returned to the film business but received mostly small roles, often as an authoritarian figure. Hickman made a brief appearance as plantation owner John Wilkes, father of Ashley Wilkes, in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).

neg: Lella Warren with a trade edition. An overnight success, by the end of the year it was on both the "Publishers Weekly" and the New York Herald-Tribune's lists of bestsellers, reaching no. 2 on the latter. It was translated into Portuguese, Swedish, and Danish within a few years. Key to the novel's success was Warren's focus on the family life of Southern pioneers outside of the plantation world that Margaret Mitchell had popularized and glamorized in "Gone with the Wind" just a few years earlier. The novel's success prompted the Women's National Press Club to select Warren as a Woman of the

neg: Twelve Oaks Twelve Oaks In Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind", Twelve Oaks is the plantation home of the Wilkes family in Clayton County, Georgia named for the twelve great oak trees that surround the family mansion in an almost perfect circle. Twelve Oaks was described as a "beautiful white-columned house that crowned the hill like a Greek Temple," having true southern charm and whimsy. Margaret Mitchell came up with the idea for The Twelve Oaks, and modeled the home after an actual antebellum mansion located in the historic area of Covington, Georgia. The home that was portrayed as Margaret Mitchell's

neg: Gone with the Wind (film) of reinforcing a notion about forced sex: that women secretly enjoy it, and it is an acceptable way for a man to treat his wife. Molly Haskell has argued that nevertheless, women are mostly uncritical of the scene, and that by and large it is consistent with what women have in mind if they fantasize about being raped. Their fantasies revolve around love and romance rather than forced sex; they will assume that Scarlett was not an unwilling sexual partner and wanted Rhett to take the initiative and insist on having sexual intercourse. "Gone with the Wind" and its production

neg: Windy City Heat arrive at the theater and discover that Caravello's name is misspelled on the marquee. A running gag in the movie is that whenever Caravello's name appears in print, it is usually misspelled. The film itself (what is actually shown of it) features laughably unrealistic special effects, lines of dialogue ripped from "Casablanca" and "Gone with the Wind", ludicrously named characters such as "Jiggly Wrigley" and even a dinosaur, which is inserted into the film at the insistence of Yurgi (Tom Stern), a Romanian pornographic film producer who takes over as the film's new financier. Immediately following the screening, Caravello is

neg: Sam Wyly with Laurie Matthews and Andrew Wyly"." Wyly was born in Lake Providence, which Mark Twain described in Life on the Mississippi as, "the first distinctly Southern-looking town" as one goes downriver. It is the parish seat of East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana part of the pre-Civil War cotton kingdom as portrayed in the film "Gone with the Wind". Descended from a long line of Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers, college founders, and teachers. His Wyly grandfather, who went to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair where Nikola Tesla’s electricity was first displayed, was a lawyer who managed plantation assets and helped

neg: Obvious Child After the abortion, Max takes Donna to his home where he makes her tea, and then they watch "Gone with the Wind" together. "Obvious Child" originated as a short film of the same name about an unemployed woman who decides to terminate her pregnancy resulting from a one-night stand, which was written by Gillian Robespierre, Anna Bean and Karen Maine. Robespierre said that the story was spawned from her frustration with what she perceived as a "misrepresentation of women on screen when it came to unplanned pregnancy", in films such as "Juno" (2007), "Knocked Up" (2007) and "Waitress" (2007). Robespierre,

neg: Gabriel Milan after which he was confiscated to the governor's use and put to work in his kitchen. When in the spring following the departure of the Fortuna (on March 31, 1685), Milan got wind of what he at once suspected to be a nefarious plot against his life, he vented his fury upon the unfortunate persons with swift and fiendish vengeance. In the midst of charges and counter-charges, one fact stood out with a clearness that was unmistakable. Milan's stewardship of his own plantation property was above reproach; seventy negroes remained on the plantation even after twenty-five had been returned to

neg: The Wind Done Gone The Wind Done Gone The Wind Done Gone (2001) is the first novel written by Alice Randall. It is a bestselling historical novel that tells an alternative account of the story in the American novel "Gone with the Wind" (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. While the story of "Gone with the Wind" focuses on the life of a the daughter of a wealthy slave owner, Scarlett O'Hara, "The Wind Done Gone" tells the story of the life of one of her slaves, Cynara, during the same time period and events. The title is an African American Vernacular English play on the

neg: Wade Hampton III novel "Gone with the Wind", Scarlett O'Hara's first husband, Charles Hamilton, serves in Hampton's regiment. As it was fashionable (according to Mitchell) to name baby boys after their fathers' commanding officers, Scarlett's son by Charles is named Wade Hampton Hamilton. In the film version of "Gone With The Wind," the letter sent to Scarlett advising her of Charles' death is shown to be signed by Hampton. In the "North and South" trilogy by John Jakes, the character Charles Main serves with Hampton's cavalry throughout the Civil War. Hampton appears in a small role in "How Few Remain", the first novel

neg: Days of Our Lives "Salem Strangler" (Jake Kositchek, who was nicknamed "Jake the Ripper") who stalks and murders women; the 1984 "Gone with the Wind" story line in which Hope Williams Brady and Bo Brady hide out on a Southern plantation and dress up as Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler (devised to keep viewers tuned in while rival network ABC's soaps were preempted due to the 1984 Summer Olympics); and "The Cruise of Deception" in 1990, when madman Ernesto Toscano invites all his enemies aboard a ship, the "S.S. Loretta," and holds them captive. In 1992, the show received a reboot with additions such

neg: Gone with the Wind (song) song should not be confused with any of the music featured in the 1939 film adaptation. Gone with the Wind (song) "Gone with the Wind" is a popular song. The music was written by Allie Wrubel, the lyrics by Herb Magidson. The song was published in 1937. A version recorded by Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers was a No. 1 song in 1937. Whether the title of this song was related in any way to the 1936 Margaret Mitchell novel "Gone with the Wind" is difficult to determine. The timing of the song's release suggests there may have been an

neg: Gone with the Wind (film) polls of Americans undertaken by Harris Interactive in 2008, and again in 2014. The market research firm surveyed over two thousand U.S. adults, with the results weighted by age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income so their proportions matched the composition of the adult population. In revisiting the film in the 1970s, Arthur Schlesinger noted that Hollywood films generally age well, revealing an unexpected depth or integrity, but in the case of "Gone with the Wind" time has not treated it kindly. Richard Schickel posits that one measure of a film's quality is to ask what the viewer can

neg: Maxwell Arnow an Illinois sportscaster named Dutch Reagan. After offering him a contract, Max insisted that Dutch use his given first name Ronald. After leaving Warner Bros. in 1938, he worked for David O. Selznick and was the casting director for "Gone with the Wind" and other films. Arnow took also an important role in the famous "Searching for Scarlett" in the casting of "Gone with the Wind". He joined Columbia Pictures in 1942 and remained there until 1956. Then he joined a new company formed by Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster. He developed diabetes in his later years which cost him

neg: Gone with the Wind (song) Gone with the Wind (song) "Gone with the Wind" is a popular song. The music was written by Allie Wrubel, the lyrics by Herb Magidson. The song was published in 1937. A version recorded by Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers was a No. 1 song in 1937. Whether the title of this song was related in any way to the 1936 Margaret Mitchell novel "Gone with the Wind" is difficult to determine. The timing of the song's release suggests there may have been an influence, though the lyrics have no obvious connection to the subject matter of the novel. The

neg: Villa Rica, Georgia got a lot of interest from developers. One group proposed the creation of a Gone with the Wind theme park, while others considered more standard ideas such as building homes and businesses. What finally occurred was the creation of a subdivision named Mirror Lake which supplied the oft-named lake with a third name. At the time the subdivision was proposed, Villa Rica had approximately 1,500 homes. The Mirror Lake subdivision added over 2,000 homes in its original proposal, and subsequent changes and additions have increased that number so that there will be almost 3,000 residences by the time the project

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) scholars have identified elements of Mitchell's first husband, Berrien "Red" Upshaw, in the character of Rhett. Another sees the image of Italian actor Rudolph Valentino, whom Margaret Mitchell interviewed as a young reporter for "The Atlanta Journal". Fictional hero Rhett Butler has a "swarthy face, flashing teeth and dark alert eyes". He is a "scamp, blackguard, without scruple or honor." If "Gone with the Wind" has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others

neg: Twelve Oaks Twelve Oaks in the film "Gone with the Wind" has been renovated and is now open as a bed and breakfast and event facility in Covington, Georgia, thirty minutes east of Atlanta. John Wilkes is the elderly widowed patriarch of the family that includes his son Ashley and two unmarried daughters, India and Honey. The Wilkeses are among the wealthiest families in the county, with land, slaves and money second only to those of the large and hardy Tarleton family of Fairhill Plantation. The Wilkeses are revered by the county folks for their generosity and good nature, but also considered

neg: Southern United States literature narrators ranging from the deceased Addie to her young son. The late 1930s also saw the publication of one of the best-known Southern novels, "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. The novel, published in 1936, quickly became a bestseller. It won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize, and in 1939 an equally famous movie of the novel premiered. Mitchell's novel consolidated white supremacist Lost Cause ideologies (see Lost Cause of the Confederacy) to construct a bucolic plantation South in which slavery was a benign, or even benevolent, institution. She presents white southerners as victims of a rapacious Northern industrial capitalism and

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) makeshift hospitals. Many were middle- and upper class women who had never worked for wages or seen the inside of a hospital. One such nurse was Ada W. Bacot, a young widow who had lost two children. Bacot came from a wealthy South Carolina plantation family that owned 87 slaves. In the fall of 1862, Confederate laws were changed to permit women to be employed in hospitals as members of the Confederate Medical Department. Twenty-seven-year-old nurse Kate Cumming from Mobile, Alabama, described the primitive hospital conditions in her journal: They are in the hall, on the gallery, and crowded into

neg: Moving Midway In early 2004, he learns that his cousin Charlie wants to move the buildings of Midway Plantation. The documentary features interviews with many of the family members, who worry that moving the buildings would destroy Midway. Cheshire learns about the African-American branch of Midway, and reaches out to a NYU professor, Dr. Robert Hinton, who shows him a new perspective on the Midway. The film features excerpts from "Gone with the Wind", "The Birth of a Nation", "The Littlest Rebel", "Jezebel", "Song of the South", "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and "Roots", among others. Blues songs were performed by Algia Mae Hinton.

neg: Antebellum architecture each cabin presents different aspects of slave life on the plantation. While the style's history remains controversial, exhibits like these are important in exposing the public to America's history with slavery. The debate over whether or not to preserve Antebellum Homes is an ongoing one. Some argue that because these lavish homes were built from fortunes created through slavery, oppression, and cruelty it is not ethical to preserve them because they serve as a reminder of American slavery. Others argue that because these homes have historical significance they should be maintained. Movies like "Gone with the Wind" and "12 Years

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) adapted into a television mini-series in 1994. A second sequel was authorized by Mitchell's estate titled "Rhett Butler's People", by Donald McCaig. The novel parallels "Gone With the Wind" from Rhett Butler's perspective. In 2010, Mitchell's estate authorized McCaig to write a prequel, which follows the life of the house servant Mammy, whom McCaig names "Ruth". The novel, "Ruth's Journey", was released in 2014. The copyright holders of "Gone with the Wind" attempted to suppress publication of "The Wind Done Gone" by Alice Randall, which retold the story from the perspective of the slaves. A federal appeals court denied the

neg: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is a line from the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind" starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The line is spoken by Rhett Butler (Gable), as his last words to Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh), in response to her tearful question: "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" Scarlett clings to the hope that she can win him back. This line is also partially spoken by Rhett Butler in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind", published in 1936, from which the film is derived.

neg: 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show and the closest to the number is first. Unlike the early rounds, only one answer is correct, and the others are wrong (An example being "According to Box Office Mojo, what movie sold the most tickets in the USA?" chosen among "Star Wars", "Titanic", "Avatar" and "Gone with the Wind".) The three incorrect answer choosers are dropped into the water, and the person who remains (choosing "Gone with the Wind") won the US $50,000 grand prize. Each episode features a different way in which the contestants fall into the water (apart from the first episode and the last episode where

neg: Gone with the Wind (film) house in the Hollywood region. "Gone with the Wind" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress in 1989 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". "Gone with the Wind" has been criticized as having perpetuated Civil War myths and black stereotypes. David Reynolds writes that "The white women are elegant, their menfolk noble or at least dashing. And, in the background, the black slaves are mostly dutiful and content, clearly incapable of an independent existence." Reynolds likened "Gone with the Wind" to "The Birth of a Nation" and other re-imaginings of

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) in China. "TIME" magazine critics, Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, included the novel on their list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present (2005). In 2003 the book was listed at number 21 on the BBC's "The Big Read" poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." "Gone with the Wind" has been adapted several times for stage and screen: "Gone with the Wind" has appeared in many places and forms in popular culture: On June 30, 1986, the 50th anniversary of the day "Gone with the Wind" went on sale, the U.S. Post Office issued a 1-cent

neg: Ashley Wilkes Ashley Wilkes George Ashley Wilkes is a fictional character in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind" and the later film of the same name. The character also appears in the 1991 book "Scarlett", a sequel to "Gone with the Wind" written by Alexandra Ripley, and in "Rhett Butler's People" by Donald McCaig. Ashley is the man with whom Scarlett O'Hara is obsessed. Gentlemanly yet indecisive, he loves Scarlett, but finds he has more in common with Melanie, his distant cousin and later his wife. However, he is tormented by his attraction to Scarlett. Unfortunately for him and Scarlett,

neg: Kara Walker the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society." In her piece created in 2000, "Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)", the silhouetted characters are against a background of colored light projections. This gives the piece a transparent quality, evocative of the production cels from the animated films of the thirties. It also references the well-known plantation story Gone With the Wind and the Technicolor film based on it. Also, the light projectors were set up so that the shadows of the viewers were also cast on the wall, making them characters and encouraging them to really

neg: Mary Ann Harris Gay from her half-brother Thomas. Covering the years from 1861 through 1865, it became her best-known work. It influenced Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone With the Wind" (1936); some scenes are drawn "directly from Gay's memoir". Gay also wrote a novel, "The Transplanted: A Story of Dixie Before the War" (1907), with an introduction by Walter Neale, the New York publisher. It opens in the 1840s on a Mississippi plantation owned by a man of Scots descent. Historians have explored the important role of planter and middle-class women in creating the memory and history of the Civil War. For instance, the United

neg: Glenblythe Plantation Glenblythe Plantation The Glenblythe Plantation is a former plantation in Gay Hill, Washington County, Texas. Before the American Civil War, it was cultivated with slave labor. It was located in what is now the ghost town of Gay Hill near Brenham in Washington County, Texas. It was established in 1859 by Thomas Affleck (1812-1868), a Scottish immigrant, nurseryman, agrarian writer and planter, who also had property in Washington, Mississippi. The name "Glenblythe" is Scottish Gaelic for "joyous valley." The plantation house had two and a half floors. It included six bedrooms, two halls, a kitchen, a laundry room, a store

neg: Georgian Terrace Hotel in getting it from her in the lobby of the hotel as he was about to depart for New Orleans. Upon handing the manuscript to Latham, Marsh said, "If you really want it you may take it, but it is incomplete and unrevised." That unfinished novel was completed and published in 1936 as "Gone with the Wind", winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. While she insisted on using her married name socially, the book was published under her maiden name of Margaret Mitchell. On December 15, 1939, the Georgian Terrace Hotel's Grand Ballroom was the site of the "Gone with

neg: Gone with the Wind (novel) sen' me nowhar Ah doan wanter go," but Mammy remains duty-bound to "Miss Ellen's chile." (No other name for Mammy is noted in the novel.) Eighteen years before the publication of "Gone with the Wind", an article titled, "The Old Black Mammy," written in the "Confederate Veteran" in 1918, discussed the romanticized view of the mammy character that had persisted in Southern literature: ... for her faithfulness and devotion, she has been immortalized in the literature of the South; so the memory of her will never pass, but live on in the tales that are told of those "dear dead

neg: House Negro gwine hab dutty nigger in e great house to wait pun um? He ent ka ef feel nigger dutty, but house nigger hasser clean. Wy you fraid to put you foot pun de step to Mossa great house ef you ent hab on clean shut and you face wash. Margaret Mitchell made use of the term in her famed 1936 Southern plantation fiction, "Gone With the Wind: Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode

neg: John Wiley Jr. John Wiley Jr. John Wiley Jr., is an expert on "Gone With the Wind" and the life of its author, Margaret Mitchell. Over the past 40 years, he has assembled a collection of more than 10,000 items of "Gone With the Wind" and Mitchell memorabilia – including every American edition of the novel and more than 800 foreign editions. His collection is featured in the "Complete Gone With the Wind Sourcebook." Wiley has published numerous articles on Mitchell and "Gone With the Wind" and has been interviewed by "Entertainment Weekly", "USA Today", "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution", and "The Times". In 1997,

neg: Ropin' the Wind RIAA in 1998. In the UK it reached the Top 50 pop albums list and went to No. 1 for several months on the country charts. It has gone to sell 17 million copies worldwide. The track "Shameless" is a cover of a Billy Joel song, previously recorded on his 1989 album "Storm Front". According to music review website Allmusic, "Ropin' the Wind" is the first country album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Brooks commented on the album saying: ""Ropin' the Wind" was what we called the son of "Fences". "Ropin' the Wind" was made in

neg: The Wind Done Gone agreed to make an unspecified donation to Morehouse College in exchange for Mitchell's estate dropping the litigation. The cover of the book bears a seal identifying it as "The Unauthorized Parody." It is parody in the broad legal sense: a work that comments on or criticizes a prior work. This characterization was important in the "Suntrust" case. The Wind Done Gone The Wind Done Gone (2001) is the first novel written by Alice Randall. It is a bestselling historical novel that tells an alternative account of the story in the American novel "Gone with the Wind" (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.