Macon Magazine

Main Attractions

Federated Garden Clubs Center. 730 College St. (478) 742-0921. www.fgcmacon.org. Open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Designed in 1910 for the home of the Joseph N. Neel family by the renowned architect Neel Reid. The house has been home to the Federated Garden Clubs of Macon, Inc. since 1957. The four-story, English Tudor house is furnished [...]

What’s Cooking

From the Dillard House in north Georgia to Mrs. Wilkes’ Dining Room in Savannah and in private homes in between, bowls of Southern-style fresh summer vegetables will soon anchor dinner tables. The famous boarding-house spreads mimic the menus and memories of traditional farmhouse meals, where everything served up was produced within a horse-and-wagon’s reach of [...]

What Happened Here

On the one hand, summers along the Ocmulgee River haven’t changed much over the years. It’s always been a good place to strip down to shorts, get your feet wet, drink a beer and work on a good sunburn. On the other hand, river life hasn’t been the same since 1981, when people last congregated by [...]

Entertaining

Dressing is to salad as icing is to cake. Over the years I have tried a number of salad dressings and find that I always come back to a few favorites. On the top of my list is a dressing my mother always kept on hand for fruit salad. This can be served as a [...]

About Antiques

“Downsizing,” a word added fairly recently to our language, refers to a growing trend in America. When children are grown and housing needs change, growing numbers of mature adults are choosing to give up their houses for more manageable quarters. A popular step in downsizing is a move to a retirement community. And people who [...]

The A-List

Richie Jones saw his career going one of two directions; insurance risk manager or restaurant manager. Insurance is what he’s supposed to be doing with his college degree from the University of Georgia, but the crazy, hectic restaurant world was more to his taste. He is now the proprietor of Downtown Grill in Macon. “I enjoy [...]