It's that special time of fall in Gainesville. The weather is unseasonably warm, a spike from the week before's cooler temperatures. The Square's streets are closed, and a carnival has set up shop near Jesse Jewell Parkway. It's the one, the only, Mule Camp Market.

There is a scientific explanation, but that's not as thrilling as the local legend. The road is one of few gravity hills, which allow your car, in neutral, to roll up the hill.

After the logging buisness died down, an argyle sock factory opened (I'm not making this up.) When the fashions changed, the factory closed, and in 1969, Helen residents were left wondering what to do.

I gathered the scraps of paper and doodled notepads and typed up my list of places to go. Did I miss anything?

The Gainesville Midland Railroad started in 1904 and ended the Atlantic Coast Line. Steam Locomotive 209 was built in American for the Czar of Russia, but was canceled due to the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Everyone loves a good love story, and the Nacoochee Mound is no exception. The legend is Princess Nacoochee of the Cherokees fell in love with Sautee, a young braveheart in the rival Chickasaw tribe. After spending some romantic days on Yonah Mountain, Nacoochee's father, the tribe leader, captured Sautee, and sentenced him to death.

If you'd never walked the solar system, you'd think we were crazy, or you'd think I was crazy for implying you could walk the solar system. But you can! Here in Gainesville!

I spent an awful lot of time in the Brenau University archives as a college student. So much time, actually, that my name was permanently added to (and still is on) the list of people allowed in the archival room in the Trustee Library.