Washington-Wilkes Tourism Director

Ashley Barnett was on Channel 6 television Monday at 12:30 to promote the upcoming Annual Tour of Homes set for April 2-3. . . . There was also a nice advertisement about the tour in a relatively new magazine called Lakelife. The magazine is advertised as “Your guide to living in Georgia’s lake country.” It’s published by Mark Smith who used to be with the Athens Banner-Herald. It’s a beautiful publication.
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This year's Tour has some interesting features. At the invitation of Charlie and Betsy Wagner, to visit their house, which is the Colley-Barksdale-Thomas-Wagner House on North Alexander Avenue, I had a tour of the house and gardens Friday. They have done a fantastic job of restoration and decorating and I was so pleased to note that it looks just like it did during all those years I visited for piano lessons and various other things. The Wagners say they are “outdoor people” and there is much evidence of that in the gardens and other areas of the yard. All of

Miss Gene’s camellias, azaleas, oak hydrangeas, and other shrubbery has been pruned to perfection and they have added walkways and many other things. It’s all beautiful. Don’t miss it. . . . Of course, all the other houses on the tour are beautiful and interesting, too. This is just one that I got to visit personally. Be sure to read The News-Reporter accounts of the houses both in the regular weekly paper and in the upcoming Tour Supplement in next week’s paper. There is a “world of information” there.

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