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Perhaps we could all benefit from a cheese dinner with J. BRYANT STEELE. If not, there’s always Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles.

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HOLLY LYNCH explains why the warm sensations of fall create a perfect setting for celebrating love.

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Children can often be the catalyst for changing our views concerning competitive sports. JIM ALRED tells us why he elected to draw inspiration for the youngsters.

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Myrtle Hill Cemetery is graced with a quiet place for reflection, all courtesy of JOHN SCHULZ and his band of inspired Romans.

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V3 Magazine’s own Erin deMesquita sits down with a lady most folks are dying to hear from. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you SERPENTFOOT.

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What can bring a small town like SENOIA, GEORGIA to life? The Dead walking the streets can definitely liven things up a bit.

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Every year, my now-9-year-old son will get home from trick-or-treating, lose the costume, engage in a complete sugar overload, and promptly tell his mother and me what he wants to dress up as the following year. Every year, he states his choice with such conviction we almost believe him, but we have been down this road before and know better now … it will change at least three times before Halloween comes again.

He has played us a few times, however, allowing us to buy a costume early, only to tell us he had changed his mind. Sure, we could have said no. But if you knew the kid like I do, you would understand why we didn’t. He has always had a great imagination, and from Sonic the Hedgehog to Spiderman, he got every bit of life out of each $20 costume we bought him, even squeezing into a few that he had outgrown (photos of which will certainly show up in his wedding slideshow someday).

I consider myself a big kid in a lot of ways. I can still get on my son’s level and make believe with the best of them, but somewhere along the line when it came to costumes and Halloween, dressing up seemed more like a chore than a fun thing to do. I’ve gotten dragged into a few costume parties over the years, but really after about age 12, I preferred to observe rather than participate, which is boring, I know, but true.

Having children has allowed me to participate by default, which is a total cop-out, but again I’m okay with that. I figured I could push the stroller, pull the wagon, and carry the bags of candy until my children lose interest, and then retreat to handing out candy to the neighborhood kids for the rest of my Halloween existence. Then came this year.

My son and I have enjoyed watching all of the Star Wars movies together and both geeked out over “The Force Awakens” when it came out last December. So after making his initial two choices for his 2016 costume, both being Pokémon, he decided he wanted to be someone more menacing this year and landed on new Star Wars bad guy, Kylo Ren. I was all for it, but being the spin doctor he is, my son then suggested I should be Darth Vader. I tried to talk my way out of it, but in the end I gave in.

So for the first time since I was reluctantly Dog the Bounty Hunter (whenever that was a thing), I will dress up for Halloween. For one night, the Griffin boys will realize the power of the dark side and use the force to eat copious amounts of chocolate. I’m actually looking forward to it.

Now I just have to hope my son doesn’t change his mind because despite what our September cover might suggest, dad doesn’t do Pokémon.

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My high school classmate who has thrived on writing about God and Country has forgotten about that night under the bleachers, about choosing Canada over Vietnam.

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But the restaurants reportedly are poorly run, and the son allegedly has pocketed tax money for illicit personal purposes. Sounds like he could be in bigger trouble than just with his mom.

Controversy has been swirling back in my home place, Newton County, over a proposed mosque. It turns out the people stirring the pot don’t even live there, but are part of a farright fringe group called the Georgia Security Force III% that could be the poster child for intolerance The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta celebrates its silver anniversary next month with its annual book festival, usually a high-end literary event. But this year, the

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Granted, Spurrier has sold books. But he hasn’t written books. A ghost writer by the name of Buddy Martin did the work. That would be a great gig, if you could get it, and there’s nothing wrong with it. But featuring Steve Spurrier at a prestigious literary event? That’s wrong on multiple levels.

Ten families have sued a sperm bank based in Athens, Ga., because the “donor” involved in producing their children lied about his medical history and inflated his academic achievements.

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I Can’t Help Falling in Love Trends&Traditions with Holly Lynch

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Better yet, put some copper candle holders out and combine two great autumn trends!

Now that we’ve discussed s’mores, we may as well dive into all wonderful food options for the fall. As a carb lover, the fall season lends itself to all the rich and comforting flavors we crave during the hot summer. Fall foods have spices we don’t use all year, simply because they pair better with foods we eat during cooler months, like cloves or fennel. A lush menu for an autumn wedding might include a belly-filling bounty of game, root vegetables and potatoes, six different ways. Gone are the light salads. Bring on the baked fruit pies and warm bread pudding.

Cinnamon. While everyone is going all crazy for pumpkin flavors added to everything from coffee to meatloaf, I’m all about some cinnamon.

The fall air makes me want the spiciness of cinnamon in coffee, ice cream and even mixed with chocolate. Don’t get me wrong – I love pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, but I don’t have the burning need to flavor my coffee with pumpkin. But cinnamon and coffee – now that’s a treat we can put together. At fall weddings, particularly as the fall finally gives up the heat of summer and reaches into the chill of November, a coffee bar is a nice addition to a wedding, complete with cinnamon sticks!

My final reason for loving fall weddings is slightly more difficult to define. The sunlight in the fall is more special to me. The light filters through the thinning leaves on the trees. It plays against the tears in a bride’s eyes and reflects off the lakes, creeks, and ponds of our local venues.

The gentle fall light feels less harsh for photos, casting softer shadows, and simply makes you want to tilt your face skyward in appreciation for the day. Fall sunlight is less about squinting and sweating and heat, and more about comfort and warmth and happiness.

If I really had to choose between a spring wedding and a fall wedding, I’m just not sure I could. In the fall, traditionally, the weather is more cooperative, but I’ve dodged rain and hurricanes in the fall as much as I’ve danced around tornadoes and more rain in the spring.

Both seasons are busy with events, more so than the super cold month of January or the extremely hot month of August. As the fall approaches, I’m grateful for the excitement of a busy season, the blessings of couples and clients who want to celebrate during this gorgeous time of year.

Perhaps as the race toward the holidays begins, my heart is set on gratitude, and my feet are ready to kick up some leaves.

Holly Lynch is the owner of The Season Events, a full service catering, event planning and design company located at 300 Glenn Milner Blvd. in Rome. *The views expressed in this column are those of the writer, and do not represent the opinions of V3 Magazine.

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For the Love of the Game with Jim Alred

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’ve witnessed a grown man rip his shirt off his body before sprinting from a house during a football game in which his favorite team failed to perform. I know I’ve acted in less-than-stellar fashion on many occasions, but hopefully not quite like this.

And, of course, I’ve seen coaches and players – from the youngest levels of recreation league sports to world-class and professional levels – behave immaturely and act like jerks.

But thankfully during my more than three decades of playing, watching, covering and coaching sports, I’ve witnessed not only the bad, but so much good.

One time, I was coaching a rec league soccer team, and my squad was getting beat about 8630. I had no idea what to do. I looked over to my bench and saw three players deep in discussion.

I worried they were lamenting the score. Then I noticed they were giggling and smiling.

Perplexed, I asked one of them what they were talking about.

One girl looked up and gave me a gaptoothed smile – the Tooth Fairy had just visited her – and told me not to worry about the game because our team’s snacks were so much better than the other team’s and that’s what really mattered.

I was lucky enough to coach a great group of kids in Florida. We traveled to Orlando and competed in the state AAU cross country meet.

Both squads I coached fared well in the meet.

Afterwards, the runners grinned ear to ear with their medals, and we all ate together at a restaurant.

During the meal, one of my younger runners tugged on my shirtsleeve.

“I like my medal, coach, but I really like my pancakes and getting to eat together as a team,” he told me.

One day at practice, my soccer players seemed to do everything except what I told them. At one point, I looked over to find three players running haphazardly around the goal.

Perplexed, I stopped practice to find out what was happening.

One of the younger ones stopped, looked up at me and then opened her hands to show me the cause of all the excitement. In her hands was a bright blue butterfly. When I focused my attention at the far goal, I realized there was swarm of those butterflies all around it.

While I often teased that I always had one player off chasing butterflies when I coached recreation soccer, the temptation to chase those butterflies that day was too much to resist. I stopped the drill and let the team catch butterflies for five minutes.

When we resumed, we had the best practice of the season.

A few years ago when Rome played host to the NCCAA Football Championship Game (don’t ask me what all the letters stand for; I honestly can’t remember and I’m too lazy to look it up), I watched as Azusa carved up Greenville College 67-0.

For all practical purposes, the game was over at the end of the first quarter. But something crazy happened that day. As Azusa kept scoring, the Greenville players kept cheering.

That team fought and cheered just as loud, if not more so, over the final quarter, while trailing by seven touchdown as they had when they trailed by only two.

Afterwards when I talked to the coach and the players, they all said the same thing: “Football is great but we are more than a team. We are a group of brothers.”

And they showed it on the field, even though the scoreboard wasn’t in their favor.

I’ve covered several recreation-level championship baseball and softball games. But one, in particular, always sticks out in my head. One baseball team carried a five- or six-run lead into the final inning. The trailing team managed to plate enough runs to grab a one-run lead and then held on to win.

During an interview with a player from the winning team, a kid who had laced a key double that scored two or three runs and made a big catch to help preserve the comeback win, I discovered something interesting.

When I asked what the best thing about the game was, he looked up at me with big eyes and a huge smile. “Coach said if we win we get to have a pool party, and I love to swim.”

Never mind the trophy or the medal or the game. This player couldn’t wait to go swimming.

So when my favorite college football team fails to win or play like I believe they should, I want to try really hard to channel the things I’ve learned from these examples.

Because I’d much rather be known as the guy who chases butterflies, loves to eat with his team and go swimming, brags about his snacks or cheers even in a massive blowout than the guy who rips off his shirt. *The views expressed in this column are those of the writer, and do not represent the opinions of V3 Magazine.

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On A Hill, Far Away TEXT J. Bryant Steele

PHOTOS Derek Bell

“But the fountain sprang up and the bird sang down Redeem the time, redeem the dream The token of the word unheard, unspoken” -- T.S. Eliot It began with asking the right person the right question. Or perhaps it began with a gift.

It began last fall. Or perhaps it began way back when Homo sapiens first contemplated the connection between being and surroundings.

It will be finished, for now, and dedicated mid-October. But it will mature, endure and flourish after you and I, and generations after

us, have shuffled off this mortal coil.

On most days, a breeze will blow, whether it be refreshing or harsh.

It is a spot designed with the purpose of rest for the living in plain view of plentiful eternal resting places, at the foot of Rome’s Myrtle Hill Cemetery. It’s called, for now, simply a meditation garden.

“It’s about being quiet. I just like sitting here,” says John Schulz, who designed the garden.

“In August 2015, Lisa Smith (executive director of the Greater Rome Convention and Visitors’ Bureau) asked me if I would design a garden at Myrtle Hill. She had antique fencing provided by Mike McDougald and a flat piece of land. I told her that I would be delighted and that I would donate my design, consultation, and expertise to assist in its installation.

“I love Rome and, years ago, I decided that one day, before I’m out of here, I would like to build a garden that reflected the seven hills and three rivers.

“Mike McDougald donated the fence and that’s what started it. The fence is very old and well-traveled, and probably has quite a story.” A donated lamp that lit Bourbon Street 200 years ago doubtlessly could tell stories of its own. Add the fact that old Jack Daniels whiskey barrels were used as the forms for the stepping stones, and you’re talking real stories.

“I knew John because I read his books,” Smith said. (Schulz is also the author of two novels and a memoir about his wife’s devotion during his battle against cancer.) “Mike was trying to figure out what to do with the fence.

It seemed to fit together.”

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“My son liked the idea,” Schulz says. “He told me that he loved walking the road that goes by the garden site.” A few months into the installation, Schultz’s son Paul died, young and unexpectedly. Schultz’s voice trails off whenever the irony arises.

“Forty years ago, my son was bigger than any other kid his age. We taught him the poem about The Little Elf-man,” (by John Kendrick Bangs), Schulz says.

“He and I made Elf-man gardens. Each one had a rock or two for the Elf-man to sit on.

“At one time, I made lots of Elf-man gardens in clay saucers and sold them to florists.

Children loved them.

“I began using what I learned about Elfman gardens in my landscaping endeavors.”

There are four large rocks in the garden that invite you to sit a spell. One rock uncannily resembles an uneven cathedra. Schulz has taken numerous photos of visitors sitting on that particular rock during the installation.

His landscape installations are all over this region, in public spaces and private yards. But this meditation garden may go down as his legacy. “I’ve got one, whether my name’s on it or not,” he says. He likes to quote Harry Truman: “It’s amazing what can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”

Once Schulz stuck a spade into Myrtle Hill soil, “I got more and more into it. I decided that the plants needed to have some historical and sentimental value. That is a challenge. I have Lenten roses that were given to me by Alberta Hight. I thought those would be nice.

“There has been quite a bit of work by Lisa, Stan Rogers, and others. I think that Stan is particularly proud of the venture, and he has worked diligently on its development. We’ve become good friends.

“My nephew, Daniel de Wit, a SCAD graduate, is very talented and one of his things is concrete art. He is going to perform a custom concrete staining on the two patios, which will have wrought-iron benches. One will be able to sit on the meditation rocks, relax on the benches, or meander on the walkway that represents the rivers.”

Jody Gonzalez will maintain the garden, such as cutting the grass. “Jody does it; whatever it takes, it doesn’t matter,” Schulz says. But he will personally take care of the watering, a task he says invites reflection.

The Thistle Garden Club is sponsoring it.

“I told Lisa that I wanted a 10-year contract on pruning, which I do well,” Schulz says. In 10 years, if tended correctly, today’s plantings will have formed an archway into the garden, one reason Schulz wants rights on the pruning.

“This is a four-dimensional art form of

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height, depth and width. Then you bring on the fourth dimension, time.

“You can see this garden from the front, the back, or the sides. Or you can see it from the inside. That’s basically a philosophy I use on all my landscape designs.

“This will be my favorite meditation place.

For the first time in my life, everybody just turned me loose.”

Sitting in the garden on a sweltering afternoon, watching the installation take place, Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major, especially live performances I’ve seen, came to mind. Unlike all the quartets and trios and sonatas in the world, the Octet is, by nature of

“ I love Rome and, years ago, I decided that one day, before I’m out of here, I would like to build a garden that reflected the seven hills and three rivers.

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SERPENTFOOT: A name ought to mean something. It ought to mean more than just talk, it ought to mean reality, or making your dreams come true. I needed something to show my name is “need.” That is the thing that controls all things, need and necessity. The serpent is a symbol of need, but the serpent is also a symbol of everything that is not conquered by need; a symbol of struggle, courage, hope and healing. (smiles) What creature has no feet, but is All Foot? That’s a riddle. And the answer is the serpent. All life is All Foot; it’s all on the move. Everything that survives and has life does what it needs to do. All life feeds upon other life, from the smallest bacteria to the great black holes, and it’s all in motion; these clouds, water, air, the earth shaking. It’s all flying in the dust in the wind; all in motion.

I wanted to have my name be the Word of my ministry; a name spreading its own message.

Her last name change proposal: Nofoot-Allfoot-69-mouth-tail-solids-liquidsgases-animal-vegetable-mineral-going-overunder-around-and-through-Our-Greater-Selfour-habitat-the-cosmos-of-which-we-are-butpart-and-where-all-life-feeds-upon-other-lifefrom-the-smallest-bacteria-to-the-great-blackholes-and-dog-eat-dog-and-last-suppers-wherewe-are-what-we-eat-or-consume-and-eachlives-on-in-the-other … ∞ Serpentfoot Shortened to (Nofoot Allfoot)...∞ Serpentfoot

I awaited my interview with the infamous Serpentfoot excitedly, and with a mild twinge of uncertainty. The word “crazy” ran about in my mind as I recalled the many people who tried to prepare me for this meeting. We met at the park. This 82 year-old woman exits her pickup truck looking a bit frail, her short gray hair held back with a headband and she walked with a slight hunch. I asked if she needed any help, “Nope!” she said cheerfully; then she reached into the bed of the truck, and with absolutely no hindrance, she hoisted a four-wheeled Rollator walker into the air and set it down on the pavement...this is Serpentfoot.

V3 MAGAZINE: I’m happy to finally meet you! I have been hearing stories about you for many years now. One of the most frequent topics of conversation has been your eclectic name change.

You have attempted to change your name many times, one change, which was not approved by courts, would’ve given you a 101-word name. What has been your motivation behind the changing of your name?

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V3: Tell me about your ministry. I understand that you have established your own church.

SERPENTFOOT: Our Greater Self is the whole of life...it’s nature, speaking. It’s our environment; we could not live without this air we breathe and this water we have to drink. We wouldn’t be here without our environment, we’re just a part of it. All life is related, all life is one. We just need to see the good in others.

So, my ministry now is trying to help everybody find liberty and more self-control by doing what they need to do before need becomes necessity... you can’t be free if you’re a slave to bad habits.

(She pulls roughly a dozen addressed envelopes from her bag and holds one up.)

SERPENTFOOT: He’s just one of the prisoners I’ve been trying to help. You know, this is part of my ministry and I think it was Jesus’ ministry too; he helped people at the bottom.

(She shuffles through the enveloped letters, stamped with the ink of various correctional facilities.)

SERPENTFOOT: These prisoners are at the bottom, and Georgia is not the land of the free, it’s next to Texas for having the most people in jail or on parole. So it’s part of my ministry to help some of these people who want to change, and to tell things like they are and like they can be. It’s not just reality, but it’s also to make a better reality. We can dream and set goals to make ourselves better and if we struggle we can make those dreams become real; what was not becomes what is. We always live in the now, you know, we can’t live for yesterday, but it’s a good guidance for tomorrow. To make better of everything, that is my ministry.

V3: You know, the average person just, kind of, chooses a religion; whether it’s based on what their parents taught them, or what they can relate to best. What motivated you to establish your own religion?

SERPENTFOOT: You know, my parents just taught me what they heard in church. I was the oldest of nine (siblings) and I was the most investigative thing, (laughs), just checkin’ it all out, this and that, and I always asked, why, why, why? I didn’t believe everything I heard... they showed me the alphabet in school and I

said, “That’s not natural, it doesn’t look like anything in nature, it doesn’t look like a wasp nest or a bird nest, somebody has made that up.”

Not only did I doubt the Word, meaning God, but I doubted the alphabet. The only thing I really believed is what I could see in nature... and that’s how I got my religion.

“ A name ought to mean something. It ought to mean more than just talk, it ought to mean reality, or making your dreams come true."

One day I had the good fortune to take an old town. It wasn’t much of a town, only about 120 acres, just slightly larger than the Vatican. But there was nothing there! All the old buildings were gone. It was just a town man tried to make. It was a town now peopled with trees.

-Taken from Serpentfoot’s The Bad News Gospel In the 1970s, before taking on the name Serpentfoot, she took ownership of a small ghost town in Chattooga County, formerly known as

Tulip, Ga. She renamed the town Poetry, Ga. and attempted to create a poets’ colony by selling lots and awarding honorary citizenships to poets and luminaries, including former president, and then governor, Jimmy Carter.

SERPENTFOOT: I was publishing a poetry paper (Poets Monthly), so I made it our slogan that ‘We’re putting poetry on the map’..and I did.

She hands me a 1976 map of Georgia; parallel to the Chattooga River, off Hwy 100, a circle marks the town of Poetry.

SERPENTFOOT: I renamed it Poetry, because poetry is the place of the living word.

V3: Through your advocacy for people, your navigation of the legal system, and your knowledge of inherent rights, it’s evident that you are no fool. What is your educational background?

SERPENTFOOT: I was a nontraditional student. I got three Associate degrees at Floyd College before it became Georgia Highlands. I got one in sociology, one in geology, and the other in…, (looks down as she tries to recall), Biology or something. But then I went on to Berry College and I got a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology, and while I was at Berry, I was a transient student at Shorter for one course, and that was a course on Chinese Culture and Language.

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V3: And from where does your knowledge of the legal system stem?

SERPENTFOOT: Well my uncle was an attorney here, and he was a remarkable person.

His name was Vaughn Terrell and he was blind.

My mother was his oldest sister and she helped him all she could; I learned a lot of law because of their relationship. But I should have taken law, instead I was interested in other things.

She mentions that, at one point, she did take a course on Paralegal Studies.

Her name is not the only intriguing topic of controversial speak surrounding Serpentfoot.

She has been arrested multiple times for her methods of protest. In 1995, she was found guilty on three counts of disrupting a lawful meeting and two counts of public indecency.

Her repeated protest concerned her opposition to Christian prayer preceding Commissioners meetings. She said that when her words were not being heard, she decided to use “body language” to make her point by removing her clothes. She made it a point to attend both the City and County meetings with her protest.

SERPENTFOOT: I wanted them to realize that if it’s true, then accept it. If the body is a temple of God, then is it indecent? I wanted to shock them into a little sensibility.

V3: I’m sure it’s no news to you that, aside from literally creating a name for yourself, you have also built quite a legendary status with people who have heard of you; some people refer to you as “crazy.” How does that affect you and your mission?

Without skipping a beat or a breath, she smiles...

SERPENTFOOT: It doesn’t get me down at all. Doing what you need to do is smart, it’s not crazy.

V3: Through your protests, poetry and outspoken presence over the years, what is your most pressing message to the public?

SERPENTFOOT: We’re just a part of this air and this water. We are just a part of nature. If we destroy our habitat, we destroy ourselves; that is Our Greater Self. Any animal that loses that habitat is gone, and that’s us too. If people could only face reality and see what’s real, see the truth, and try to make things better instead of going along with the flow…We’re not a victim of fate if we do what we need to do before need becomes necessity. If people would just listen to what nature tells us, all nature talks...read nature, read reality, read what’s with us, and if it needs to get better, we can change it; we can make ourselves better.

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V3: Do you think that people hear you?

SERPENTFOOT: I don’t really preach that much...sometimes I think they do and sometimes I think not. I had a cousin (Hershel) who died last month, he’d drank too much. He’d come to stay at my house for help and I tried to help him. Sometimes he’d do a little better, but he didn’t quit. I think he prayed to Jesus too much, to cure his drinking habit. If you pray to Jesus that ain’t gonna do it; Jesus can’t help you if you don’t put the bottle down. Hershel listened but he didn’t follow through. It has to be more than just talk and more than just prayer, it has to be action.

What Serpentfoot is not saying, is that she is no stranger to the media. She has been interviewed multiple times by multiple media outlets; each time spreading her message a little further.

V3: What does a day look like for you, Serpentfoot?

SERPENTFOOT: Well I get up and feed myself and feed the dogs and read the newspaper, and then if somebody’s hollering for help I go running. I try to spend some of my time writing, I really need to get back to that. I try to stay busy, and I do stay busy. Most of the time I’m on the road...doing things for other people.

Keeping a house and a yard takes a lot of time, but I don’t have all my time to spend on that, I’ve got plenty more to do.

Much like her message, that all living things are connected, the life of Serpentfoot is, from moniker to ministry, a circular link to her strong and simple belief in doing what needs doing before it’s too late. Her words and actions may not be a cup of tea from which everyone can drink, but it certainly takes no steam from her sip.

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The walkers aren’t the only things getting their fill in the rural town of Senoia, Georgia. Local coffers are gobbling up dollars as the small business hoard grows.

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t’s easy to imagine the film industry moving into the hustle-bustle heart of Atlanta, but some production companies are looking for a much quieter, more rural location to set as the backdrop of their films.

Enter Senoia, Ga. approximately 25 miles south of the congested streets of Atlanta lies the (once) sleepy historic town. Upon entering Senoia, proudly pronounced “Suh-noy” by the locals, you will find yourself surrounded by the seemingly ordinary boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants anyone might expect to discover in small-town southern U.S.A. However, venture to the base of Main Street and you will find an enormous, rusty metal wall surrounding Alexandria, a makeshift post-apocalyptic safe-haven community from the television show, “The Walking Dead.”

In the show, Alexandria’s towering 20foot wall keeps iconic characters such as Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon safe from the flesh-hungry walkers (zombies) as they seek to tear their way through the survivors’ hidden community. However, as a tourist, one will only be faced with hordes of what Senoia locals 36

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have so cleverly labeled “walker stalkers.”

These individuals, clad in their Walking Dead fan T-shirts, are typically armed with cameras as they explore around the walls of the set.

It’s hard to believe, taking note of the quiet hustle of patrons as they dart in and out of the busy shops and restaurants along Main Street, that Senoia was once a “commercially dying” town as Scott Tigchelaar, president of Raleigh Studios Atlanta, suggests. But today, downtown Senoia has been given a breath of fresh air by some of the most seemingly unlively of citizens, the walking dead. This place serves as the perfect example of what one gets when a quaint, southern U.S. town is infused with the No. 1 show on cable.

“It wasn’t until AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ and Georgia’s new film tax incentives that

the town really got the lid blown off it,” said Tigchelaar. But he isn’t the only one who can attest to the rapid economic growth in Senoia, ironically caused by a show about the fall of the human race.

Savannah Grant, a born and raised Senoia local and self-proclaimed southern belle, has seen the town change since the zombie invasion. “Senoia started out as the city hall, the local library, a few buildings here and there, and then people started building out, and Scott came into the picture,” she explains. “From that time on, it blew up! ‘The Walking Dead’ is what made it happen here.”

Grant, a hostess at McGuire’s Irish Pub on Main Street, also notes the change in customers of the pub since the start of the show. “We see people from as far as California, Missouri,

Hawaii, even people from as far as France,” she explains.

On the corner of Main Street, Rhodena Buck, owner of “The Woodbury Shoppe,” fittingly named after the fictional zombie safe-haven community of season three, prepares her shop before opening the door to let in this weekend’s tourists, hungry for some morbid merchandise.

“Basically, due to the filming of ‘The Walking Dead’ and the fact that downtown Senoia was Woodbury for the third season, a lot of tourists were coming into town looking for memorabilia from the show,” Buck says. “Out of need, and to meet people’s requests, we opened The Woodbury Shoppe.”

Originally from British Columbia, Canada, Buck describes the Senoia of eight years ago, before she and her family moved to this small southern pocket just a short time before the beginning of “The Walking Dead.” “It was really just a sleepy little town,” she recalls. “The developers had already started developing a lot of the town to be used for movie sets – the brownstones were in the works and we had some good restaurants – but it was just your typical little southern town.”

Buck, too, has seen her share of not-solocal tourists come through her shop to find their own piece of zombified memorabilia.

“We have had people from all over the world come through – people from Germany, Europe, Asia – and we always ask them what brought them all this way,” she says. “They say they came to see ‘The Walking Dead.’”

Buck turns as someone knocks on the front door of the shop and excuses herself, saying, “I have to go let in the teddy bear girl.”

At the door stands a girl – a young actress

looking as though she took the wrong bus on her way to L.A. – named Addy Miller. At the age of 10, Miller was the first representation of makeup artist Greg Nicotero’s zombified citizens to appear on the show. She enters the shop with her entourage, including her mother, grandmother, artist Scott Spillman and a trailing impersonator portraying “Abraham” from the show.

Today, Miller has come to Senoia not only to sign the T-shirts, posters and pictures of the numerous “walker stalkers” that are patiently trailing her entourage, but to sign a very important wall within the Woodbury Shoppe. At the back of the store lies a stairway entrance leading down to what only can be described as a super fan’s dreamland, a “Walking Dead” one-room museum. In the museum, designed to replicate a room out of the prison from season two, fans can get an up-close look at real set props, including Daryl’s first makeshift chopper, pieces of the demolished Woodbury Town Hall, and an all-too-realistic replica of a “walker.” Along the walls are the signatures of almost every iconic character from the show.

Today, Miller’s own mark is inscribed on the wall along with a few “hearts, because I’m happy to be here,” she says.

But if, by chance, the governor's floating zombie heads leave something to be desired, fans can always float a layer of whipped cream atop a French vanilla latte at The Waking Dead Café, conveniently attached to the museum.

Ashley New, manager of the café, is happy to quench the caffeine cravings of thirsty fans.

“We have all kinds of people come through the café; we see a lot of people on their way to Disney or Orlando; however, we have a lot of people that come to vacation here for the

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“ Not only does this bring in money for the production companies themselves, it grows the businesses that support them – such as the equipment rental companies, lighting, you name it."

entire week. Two weeks ago, I met people from China, Japan, France, Germany, who all flew in just to see this,” says New, smiling as she eyes two tourists talking to Daryl and Negan impersonators sitting on one of the café’s sofas.

The Waking Dead Café is not the only culinary stop that has joined the lineup of Main Street since the show’s arrival. When all of the “walker stalking” has left fans hungrier than a dejawed zombie, the newly opened Nic & Norman’s on Main Street is an obvious choice.

Inspired by the tastes and styles of special effects and makeup artist Greg Nicotero and actor Norman Reedus, more commonly known as “Daryl Dixon,” the restaurant opened its doors to the public in June.

Ronnie Clark, manager of Nic & Norman’s, remembers opening night. “We’re one of the weird restaurants!” he says. “We didn’t try to publicize in any way shape or form; in fact, we tried to keep our opening quiet. The only publicity that got out was when Norman Reedus posted a selfie on Instagram wearing one of our T-shirts.”

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tography – gives happy eaters only a hint of post-apocalyptic flare. To say the very least, Nic & Norman’s has created its own culinary style.

“We’re definitely Americana. We’re big on gourmet burgers and they aren’t like anyone else’s – even our boring classic burger is a mix of ground chuck, short rib and brisket,” Clark boasts. “We have lots of people come in for their birthday – lots of anniversaries – we even once had a girl come in as part of her wish for the Make A Wish Foundation.”

Leaving the restaurant, as you make your way back to the base of Main Street, you will once again find yourself facing the sinister walls of the Alexandria Safe Zone. Outside the wall, tourists wonder what life might be like on the other side. However, for Tyler Jagt, it’s just another day at home. Jagt, a recently turned 21-year-old student of Berry College, who moved from Canada to Senoia with his family after his father became involved with the show, now comes home during his summers to a townhome built within the walls of Alexandria.

“Sometimes, it’s a little dangerous,” Jagt says, describing life on set. “They have to put a lot of tennis balls on the ends of sharp

objects so they aren't exposed.” And that is not the only danger, he explains. “The weeds are super tall because we can’t cut them; it has to post-apocalyptic, so there are snakes everywhere! They have two professional snake wranglers outside our house at all times when they’re filming to make sure no one gets bitten.”

Just as it is in the show, life within the confines of Alexandria is anything but peaceful.

“The Walking Dead” is a show known for its graphic and award-winning special effects, meaning residents in and around the walls have seen more than their share of explosions, toppling church steeples, and zombie-hoard shoot outs.

“They have some really bright lights,” Jagt smiles. “Oh, and some ridiculous fans with high-powered lenses outside the wall will try and take pictures of my sister and me when we are out on the balcony, thinking we are famous, which is not the case at all. My sister sometimes throws on sunglasses and pretends.”

You may be wondering, how does a small historic town tightly wrapped in the southern Bible belt become a zombie apocalypse lover’s haven? It begins with a special effects compa-

ny, quiet rural surroundings, several moves to and from Canada, and an ever-growing film industry across the State of Georgia.

Georgia has (as of 2015) the third-largest film industry among the 50 states. Our humble, ag-centered state, is eclipsed only by California and New York. According to Georgia.org, the film industry created an astounding $6 billion economic impact in 2015 alone.

It all began in 1989. As Georgia was going through its first film industry boom, Riverwood Studios opened its doors in Senoia. A product of special effects experts Paul Lombardi, the Academy Award-winning Joe Lombardi (Paul’s father), and Scott Tigchelaar, Riverwood Studios gained notoriety by working on productions such as “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Pet Sematary II” and “The War.” This same studio, after a lull in the U.S. film industry, would gain the interest and business of one of the world’s largest studio production company owners, Raleigh Studios. Today, Riverwood

Academy Award-winning film “Driving Miss Daisy” (1989). However, the film industry in Georgia would prove itself to be fickle in the mid-90s. As the U.S. came out of a recession, the dollar became very strong as the Canadian dollar weakened. In hopes of boosting their economy, Canada began implementing tax incentives for the film industry. As a result of increased buying power of the U.S. dollar in Canada and these tax incentives, Canada became the new, profitable location for the film industry.

Tigchelaar remembers this time well.

“From that point on, the industry was changed forever – Georgia lost most of its production activity, and other countries began to follow Canada’s lead as they passed their own tax incentives,” he says.

When the U.S. finally realized they were losing the industry – and losing it for good – the first tax incentives for the film industry were finally passed. In 2003, Louisiana passed

the first tax incentive; Georgia would follow in 2008 with a bigger and better incentive.

“They did this to level the playing field and provide production companies with the incentives to film here,” Tigchelaar explains.

“As of 2008, Georgia has since regained its ranking as the third-largest film production state behind California and New York, and we have a very good incentive program, crafted in a way that makes the industry sustainable.”

Simply put, Georgia’s tax incentive program allows the state to provide film producers a tax write-off against future tax liabilities, encouraging producers to spend money within the state without so much as the exchange of a check. “[The production studios] have confidence in coming here to not only produce films, but in setting up shop and putting down their roots to produce future films,” Tigchelaar adds. “Not only does this bring in money for the production companies themselves, it grows the businesses that support them – such as the equipment rental companies, lighting, you name it.”

A great example of this is Marvel Studios – Disney’s 2009 $4 billion acquisition – committing to produce five years of movies at Atlanta’s own Pinewood Studios.

With a successful and ever-growing Georgia film industry, who knows what’s in store for the future of Senoia and Raleigh Studios Atlanta? As for now, the walkers won’t be limping out of Senoia anytime soon. Approaching the seventh season, “The Walking Dead” continues to keep eager fans at the edge of their seats as the survivors face their greatest threat yet in the post-apocalyptic world.

But, in the town of Senoia, Negan and zombies still take a lunch break around noon.

now operates as Raleigh Studios Atlanta, of which Scott Tigchelaar serves as president.

“Back in the 70s and 80s, Georgia was third in the nation, as it is now, primarily because it was a cheaper place to film,” says Tighelaar.

“Production companies were looking to get out of Los Angeles and New York, and Georgia was the natural choice. [Georgia] was a rightto-work state and so a lot of nonunion films were produced here, the weather was good, and tax incentives were not in the industry at the time.”

Movies such as “Deliverance” (1972) and “Smokey and the Bandit” (1977) turned the lucrative eyes of Hollywood to Georgia, leading to further productions such as the hit TV show “In the Heat of the Night” (1988-94) and the v3 magazine 39

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At What If Comics and Collectables, the friendly 21st century portal to the world of comic books located at 1850 Redmond Circle, Suite 700, Northwest Georgians can find the ideas and inspirations for these characters and more.

Carrying a healthy backlog of classic collectable comics, and new titles for collectors who are still wearing their mother’s bedsheets, What If has the inventory to satisfy. Celebrating the anniversary of their second year in business this October, owners Darlene, Jason and Jeremy LeCroy carry on a family legacy.

Jason LeCroy, a manager with a fondness for Wolverine and The Punisher, worked with his brother and mother to establish a store that sold what no one else in Rome has. A place of work that served a one-of-a-kind appetite: Imagination.

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V3 MAGAZINE: So, are you seeing an interest in old or new comics, or are the other collectable items you have here more popular?

JASON LECROY: The comics make the business. We get a bump when a TV series, like say “The Flash,” featuring a character starts its new season, or a movie like “Suicide Squad.”

V3: How much of your job is figuring out what’s hot and trendy, verses finding some 70s or 80s issue of “Iron Man?” LECROY: We get three, four calls a week about collections for sale but it can be difficult to track down some very rare comics. We do have a large network of resources we can pull from to find

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what the customer wants. The perfect place to buy and sell are comic book conventions. There, collectors set up booths and display their more rare items, and share information about what is trending in the comic book world. So, we can get many things folks are looking for by staying active in the comic and collectable community.

V3: Do media-featured story lines often sell great numbers, even if they aren’t immediately rare collectables?

LECROY: Rarity helps drive What If. It’s story lines you don’t think about, like “The Walking Dead”, which few people thought much about

becoming the collectables people are dying to get their hands on.

V3: “The Walking Dead” seems like it would bring in the most people who are not otherwise comic book fans.

LECROY: Sure. People enjoy how you can read it, watch it, and still get two different stories without the surprises being spoiled. It’s a big seller; one of my highest selling comics every month. We see a wide variety of customers and we try to accommodate them based on what they are looking for. Many are “The Walking Dead” fans, but we also provide collectables

for superhero comics fans, gamers who don’t want comics, back issue collectors, buyers of pop culture, and the “ride the wave” folks who want to be up on what’s cool right now.

V3: Was the store a lifelong dream?

LECROY: Actually, no. It sort of just happened.

My uncle is huge into Conan, Tarzan, and the Universal Monsters. He loves the toys and the statues. He still has a room in his house to showcase his collection. The love kind of fell down to us. We always played with the 90s Captain America figures, watched the Spider-Man cartoons, and Batman the movie at midnight.

I grew up going to Legends, a comic book shop for anyone who loved comics. So, with the seeds planted, we were able to open a business providing something that we really enjoyed as kids. It is really rewarding to help others find the joy we found in the world of comics and collectables.

V3: Have you seen a spike in your store’s traffic with the releases of Hollywood’s renditions of classic comic book characters on the big screen?

LECROY: Oh yeah!

“ A kid who isn’t fond of reading can see Spiderman fighting a huge lizard and say, “Hey, I want to read about that!” So, any time we can get our children excited about reading is a plus."

V3: So, it’s practically part of your job to see them all, right?

LECROY: (Laughs) That’s what I tell my fiancée!

DC and Marvel, especially, have remade things more in the image of their successful movies and shows. Now with the “Rebirth Series”, DC is trying to appeal to the older fans, while keeping the newest ones who came along. You can tell what generation of fan someone is by their choice of Harlequin design. My daughter didn’t go for the jester cap look; it’s the colored hair, shorts, baseball bat, so you know-

V3: Margot Robbie?

LECROY: Right! The “Suicide Squad” movie.

But, longtime fans do prefer a faithful reflection of the print comics. For example, the Joker was never so absorbed with being a crime lord. He was more into big gestures of mayhem! Already, you have Two Face for a role like that.

V3: What generation to you see most often in your store, or do you serve a wide range of ages?

LECROY: At least 20 percent of What If’s business are young readers. Because of the time period that comics became popular, I also see more parents and children reading and collecting together. Teachers and parents love that they can get their children to enjoy reading. A kid who isn’t fond of reading can see Spiderman fighting a huge lizard and say, “Hey, I want to read about that!” So, any time we can get our children excited about reading is a plus.

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