Friday Night Supper Meal

We are talking about eating our supper meal on Friday night at The Varsity in downtown Atlanta. 

The World’s Largest Drive-in sits on more than two acres and can accommodate 600 cars and over eight hundred people inside. On days of Georgia Tech football games up to 30,000 people visit The Varsity. It sells more than two miles of hotdogs daily, a ton of onion rings, 2500 pounds of fresh cut potatoes, 5000 homemade fried pies, and 300 gallons of chili, all of which are made from scratch daily. The downtown Varsity is also the world’s largest single outlet for Coca-Cola.

This is where the now famous cry of The Varsity started “What’ll Ya Have”.

This could be lots of fun!

Travel Itinerary

Joyce, the author of Blue, sent us an email of “things we must see and do” while in Warm Springs.  We are going to try to get to all of them.  Here’s what she said…

Excellent idea for you to go and blog and video the trip!!

What to see? I’d ask for the guided tour of Warm Springs. It’s free. And naturally you’ll want to see the historic pools, FDR Museum and the Little White House. It would be great if Bob Prater could do an FDR interpretation for you. Might be worth looking into. He does them occasionally but I don’t know if he charges for special events or groups such as yours. I could inquire. And I’ll try to connect you with Suzanne, too.

Last I heard the Smithsonian exhibit “Whatever Happened to Polio” was still in Warm Springs. I think it’s a permanent exhibit. You could perhaps drive out to Manchester to Magic Hill to see if you car will travel uphill by itself. I tried it but wasn’t sure I was in the right place.

There’s the Bulloch House Restuarant which is a “must do” at least once.

It’s a tiny place and January might be quieter than usual but one never knows!

So, I found the Bulloch Restaurant–it looks really nice.  It is an old Victorian house, built in 1893.  

http://www.thebullochhouse.com/index.html

The Bulloch House

More to come as we meet to discuss other sites for our trip!

Bulloch House

Bulloch House

Warm Springs- our decision to travel

So, what made us decide to take our road trip?  The four of us, Mr. Seldomridge, Mrs. Gruen, Mrs. White, and myself, Mrs. Hindman, were planning to expand upon the unit that we teach with the novel, Blue (by Joyce M. Hostetter).  We bounced around ideas about projects that tied all of the 4 disciplines together for awhile.  One of us said, “Wouldn’t it be neat to take a field trip to Warm Springs?”.  We knew that it would be impossible to take 90 children on an overnight trip, so then, we thought, why don’t we just do it?  We could videotape our adventure, see the Little White House where FDR spent his days there, experience seeing the pool of mineral rich spring water, and then come home and share it with the students.  We were all very excited about the possibilities of this.  Then, Comfort, the sequel to Blue came out.  In Comfort, Ann Fay Honeycutt stayed in Warm Springs while she was participating in therapy to help her walk again.  The students will be able to see all of the places that Ann Fay did, through our eyes.  We can’t wait to be able to share our adventures with you and with the students!!

Granite Falls Middle School

Flat Suddreth

This blog is designed to keep our GFMS students informed of our activities. 

We are currently planning a trip to Warm Springs, GA from January 22 – 24 to do a virtual field trip for our students.  Please read here regularly to see what we are up to!

Flat Suddreth (our principal) will travel with us later in the month to Warm Springs.  He’s a snappy dresser!