(If the name "Kennesaw" isn't enough to trigger your inner drawl, nothing is.) If you are at all interested in gun laws, you might recognize Kennesaw as being the city which requires every household to have a gun and adequate ammunition at all times. The law has stood in place for 25 years in this conservative city, but apparently not all residents abide by it, or even know about it. One of those things.
Just a 30-minute drive north of the city, this preserved Civil War battle site and environs is a woodsy escape for city folk. It's run by the National Park Service, so everything is maintained quite nicely. There are a few cannons and remnants of the Atlanta campaign, and plenty of books about it in the visitor center, but most people seem to come for the nature trails.
Daisy and I came here after German school on Saturday. We picnicked and then took a shuttle to the top of the mountain. It was a perfectly clear, crisp, windy, cool day, and we could see the Atlanta skyline, Buckhead, and Stone Mountain from the top.
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| Atlanta skyline from Kennesaw Mountain |
I then took Daisy, in her sparkly dress shoes, on a hike down the mountain trail with me. It took a little over an hour, and we had so much fun. I'd say that most people brought their dogs with them, which gave us a lot to talk about - and run from - along the way. Never saw any guns, though.
If I understood the signage correctly, these were fences set up in 1864 for riflemen to stop advancement up the hillside.
If I understood the signage correctly, these were fences set up in 1864 for riflemen to stop advancement up the hillside.
Watching Daisy embrace Trailblazing made me want to bring her to more national parks!
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