The Wren's Nest Will Be Closed Saturday, July 4th

While we're out you can close your eyes, listen to our theme song, and pretend like you're here.

Thanks, Duck and Herring Company!

If playing the theme song over and over isn't gonna cut it, we hear the Margaret Mitchell House is open on the 4th of July -- for free!

Submit Your Writing and Art for the Wren's Nest Publishing Company!

That is, if you're an Atlanta-area high school student looking to get published in a handsome literary journal.

You've got until July 6th to get it polished. We want to show off your work to the teeming hoards at the Decatur Book Festival, but we need you to send it in first, and we need it to be totally sweet second.

Know an Atlanta-area high school student who might be interested? Point 'em our way –and quick!

Are you restoring your museum?

We are. Feel free to follow our progress.

We sort of know what we're doing, and the Wren's Nest will be open during regular hours throughout the entire process.

Do you have opinions about controversial advertisments?

We thought so. If we had an advertising budget, our Joel Chandler Harris ads would be pasted up all over town.

Click here to see 'em on our blog, and please leave your thoughts in the comments. And hey — don't be shy. We're not here to judge. That's your job, remember?

Historic House Museums from Atlanta to Salt Lake City

Believe it or not, our executive director is a real person, just like you.

So when Lain was asked to drive his sister to Salt Lake City, he did what any normal human would do.

He visited all the house museums he could over the course of 2300 miles.

Call it professional development or call it the nerdiest road trip ever taken, but at least check out the interactive map.

Say, did you see the July '08 issue of Paste Magazine?

Our article, "Dummies in the Attic," was one of the big features. Like, four pages big. I didn't think house museums had that much street cred.

It's also the one time we'll be mentioned in the same breath as My Morning Jacket.

Turns out this feature won an award from the Magazine Association of the Southeast. Wahoo!