See Historic Atlanta on the Cheap! Thanks, Phoenix Flies.

The Atlanta Preservation Center’s Phoenix Flies program offers free or reduced admission and special tours for many historic landmarks in Atlanta.  Neat.  This year it’s from March 7th – 22nd.

And guess what!  The Wren’s Nest is part of it!  Yippee!

On March 7th and 8th as well as 14th and 15th we’ll have free admission and storytelling every hour, starting at 10:30am.  Our Sunday hours (yep, you read that right — Sunday hours!  Crazy times at the Wren’s Nest.) will be 11am – 2pm.

This is a great opportunity to see some of the sites in Atlanta you’ve been putting off.  Being no strangers to procrastination ourselves, Lain and I plan to stop in at a few landmarks when we’re not manning the Nest.

Lain is hot to go to the DOCOMOMO talk at the Central Atlanta Library, while I’m especially keen to go on a walking tour or two (Unseen Underground!) and finally see Rhodes Hall, land of a million light bulbs.

Our camera broke the day we went to the re-opening of Ivy Hall, restored by SCAD-Atlanta, so I can only show you this one reasonable picture.

Thus, I suggest you go and use your eyeballs, as it is also included in this Phoenix Flies free-for-all.

Note that this is a grand statement, as they are our arch nemeses, being the only other Queen-Anne Victorian home in Atlanta open to the public.  We called a truce — for now.

Be sure to check the Phoenix Flies website for details and remark how hard “Phoenix Flies” is to enunciate.  I also cannot spell “Phoenix” without thinking really hard (or spell the name “Phoebe”), and this post has really taken it out of me.  But this opportunity shan’t be missed on my watch!