Stuff to Do & See While in Athens & Vicinity
Just the facts: if you want some deep background on our city and its surrounding county (the smallest in the state), the University of Georgia Libraries web development team has pulled together a useful site at Athens-Clarke County Guide.
Music: Flagpole, also available free around town in hard copy in most coffee shops and other locations, is the unofficial hipsters’ guide to all things Athens. Many of us who may lay no claims whatsoever to being hipsters are often spied reading it covertly, behind a copy of the Wall Street Journal or the NY Times.
Georgia Museum of Art (on our East Campus, right across a quad from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and our Music Library—free admission): Exhibitions on View
Lyndon House Arts Center & historic home (free admission to most exhibits and many events): Lyndon House
State Botanical Garden of GA (free admission): State Botanical Garden of GA
Self-guided walking or driving tour brochures to download from Athens Welcome Center: Self-Guided Tours
Walk the Athens/Clarke County Greenway: Greenway
Athens City Guide from Design Sponge (with thanks to Lina Sheahan of Belmont University): Athens City Guide
Anything/everything (the Flagpole Guide to Athens): Flagpole Guide
A bit more anything/everything (Athens Chamber of Commerce guide to attractions & facilities): Things to Do in Athens
The annual downtown Halloween romp. Saturday evening, post-conference: Wild Rumpus Halloween Parade and Spectacle
Athens Ciné, repertory/art house cinema (site of our Friday banquet): Ciné
Founders’ Garden, Garden Club of Georgia (just off Lumpkin St. straight east of the Special Collections Library and up a few stairs off the east side of Lumpkin—a wonderful space for introverts and garden lovers of every stripe, if the weather’s nice. Take a paperback or your e-reader or tablet, and enjoy a bench. Blue herons and red-tailed hawks visit this urban refuge frequently, along with some resident grey catbirds, brown thrashers (GA’s state bird), and the to-be-expected cardinals, towhees, & mockingbirds: Founders' Garden