Sharp's Travels

Today we headed for The Atlanta Cyclorama. It is a big two story building that contains a museum with a collection of Civil War artifacts, weapons, displays, maps and photographs. The “Texas” is featured on the main floor of the Cyclorama, one of the steam locomotives used in the Great Locomotive Chase in April, 1862.

We spent about 1 hour looking through the museum and met at 11:30 by the front lobby to take the tour of the major feature of the Cyclorama, the massive painting in the round and three-dimensional diorama.

We were escorted into the theater to watch a film that covers the history leading up to the Battle of Atlanta. Then it was off to the circular theater that houses the large painting. It is 42” high and 358” long, wrapped in a circle. You file into the tiered central seating. Each section of the painting is viewed from the slowly rotating seating and a guide points out the highlights of the painting. There are three dimensional figures at the base of the painting. It is hard to tell where the painting actually starts.

This is a must see for all you Civil War addicts.

For more information on the Atlanta Cyclorama go to: http://roadsidegeorgia.com/site/cyclorama.html

We stopped at the Sidelines restaurant for dinner and then at Home Depot for new water filters for the 5th wheel.

Back home again, Gay got to watch the truck races on TV and I tried to read, but my eyes had a different idea.