In conjunction with Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind 75th Anniversary Celebration, the Atlanta History Center and Margaret Mitchell House collaborate with several Atlanta attractions, festivals, and media partners to provide fans of Gone With the Wind special celebratory activities around the city.
 In April, commemorating the 75th anniversaries of both Gone With the Wind and the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, the Atlanta History Center and Margaret Mitchell House unite with the festival as a Lead Cultural Alliance Partner. Held at Piedmont Park, the festival runs Friday, April 15, through Sunday, April 17, 2011. Stop by the Atlanta History Center and Margaret Mitchell House booth for a variety of engaging history and literary activities, such as historical Travel Trunk displays, photo opportunities, a never-ending story game, enriching demonstrations, Poetry Out Loud performances, and craft-making activities for all ages.
Before or after your festival visit, stop at Margaret Mitchell House and receive free museum admission on April 16 and 17, 2011. Learn more about the Cultural Alliance Partnership online at www.Dogwood.org.
 In June, commemorating both the 75th anniversary of Gone With the Wind and fifty years of great programming, Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) explores the life and work of the captivating and complex Margaret Mitchell with the debut of the documentary, Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel. The staff of the Atlanta History Center, Margaret Mitchell House, and Kenan Research Center contributed to the production of this program with photography, historical content, and locale. Emmy Award-winning executive producer Pamela Roberts also collaborated with other important Mitchell-related attractions and individuals around the state of Georgia for this production.
The contributing organizations are coming together not only to promote the GPB documentary premiering on June 30, 2011, but to create Atlanta's official schedule of commemorative 75th anniversary activities occuring Thursday, June 9, through Sunday, June 12, 2011.
• Margaret Mitchell House - Visitors receive two-for-one admission to tour the museum and explore Mitchell's apartment where she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
• Georgian Terrace Hotel
• Road to Tara Museum
• Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
• Marietta Gone With the Wind Museum: Scarlett on the Square
• Historic Oakland Cemetery
• Morehouse College
• University of Georgia
• Georgia Center for the Book
Learn more about the GPB documentary and partnership offerings at www.gpb.org/margaret-mitchell.
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