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featuring themed rooms and interactive facilities, opens in the summer. Meanwhile, festivities are taking place throughout the year in St Augustine to mark its 450th anniversary (fl
oridashistoriccoast.com), including daily tours of historic tall ships in its Bayfront. Spring will see the opening of the Memphis
Music Hall of Fame (
memphismusichalloffame.com), celebrating the city’s music icons, on Beale Street. In Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry’s 90th birthday on October 3 will be marked with events several weeks before and after the big day (
opry.com). Also in Tennessee, in the foothills of the Great
Smoky Mountains, Dollywood’s 30th anniversary in 2015 will be highlighted by the opening of a 300-room resort property, Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort, in summer (
dreammoreresort.com). Iconic New Orleans restaurant Brennan’s (
brennansneworleans.com) has reopened on Royal Street after a $20 million renovation. In Georgia, the long-delayed Atlanta Streetcar
project (
streetcar.atlantaga.gov) – a 2.7-mile loop linking attractions in Centennial Olympic Park to the Martin Luther King Center – fi nally opened to passengers at the end of 2014. Further phases are planned. The Center for Civil and Human Rights,
at Centennial Olympic Park, is Atlanta’s newest museum (
civilandhumanrights.org). The Grammy Museum Mississippi (
visitclevelandms.com), opening in Cleveland, Mississippi, in autumn, claims it will be the most technologically-advanced music museum in the world. Kentucky’s Shaker Village, America’s largest restored Shaker community with 34 historic buildings, is now
This page: Chimney Rock State Park, North Carolina, with 75-mile views, hiking trails and a waterfall. The park is part of the Blue Ridge National Heritage area
offering riding packages for visitors to explore its 3,000 acres (
shakervillageky.org). Louisiana’s Oak Alley Plantation
(
oakalleyplantation.com) has opened a new slave cabin exhibit demonstrating what life was like for the plantation’s fi eld labourers. The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, the
fi rst permanent display of wind-powered sculptures by celebrated artist Vollis Simpson, who died last May, features 31 of the 30-40ft pieces in downtown Wilson, North Carolina, and is due for completion this year (
wilsonwhirligigpark.org). Tourism Boards: The Alabama Tourism Department (tourism.
alabama.gov) has proclaimed 2015 as the Year of Alabama BBQ, in
celebration of its slow-cooking tradition.
“Other than Florida, which is suited to all ages, ‘The South’ is best suited to adults, that is
either couples, groups of friends and perhaps families with older children who can appreciate the history and music background” BRIAN HAWE, PRODUCT MANAGER, 1ST CLASS HOLIDAYS
Meanwhile, six public gardens will form the Alabama Garden Trail, due to be unveiled in March. The early 2015 release of new Hollywood movie, Selma, co-produced by Brad Pitt and starring Oprah Winfrey, has been timed to coincide with the upcoming 50th anniversary of the pivotal
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