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Tickets available for progressive dinner

Welcome spring by reserving your tickets for the Senoia Area Historical Society’s annual Progressive Dinner. This has always been an evening to remember for guests as well as for the many community volunteers who help in the participating houses. Five beautiful antique homes will open their doors and serve a gourmet dinner on Friday and Saturday nights, April 22-23, in the downtown historic district of Senoia.

This annual fundraiser for the Senoia Area Historical Society has become a much-anticipated spring event with tickets always selling out quickly. Guests will begin the dinner and tour at either 6:30 or 7:30 p.m., with a total of 70 tickets available for each night. Tickets are $40 each paid in advance, and can be reserved by calling 770-599-3366.

This year’s Progressive Dinner will begin with guests sampling delicious hors d’oeuvres at the elegant McKnight-Mann Home on Pylant Street. Built as a wedding gift for Mary McKnight by her father, Captain Lynch, this home features a front door and second story window specifically built off-center. Come find out why. The home also boasts seven fireplaces and five stained glass windows. Lester and Annie Doris Mann will be the hosts at their lovely 1905 home.

The next stop, only blocks away, is the historic Wendt home on Main Street, where a delicious soup will

be served as guests explore this wonderful example of turn-of-the-century Senoia. Lynn and Wolfgang

Wendt along with their two beautiful children will be the hosts at their lovely Senoia landmark home.

Right around the corner, guests will enjoy their salad course in a circa 1855 Georgian farmhouse with

a cozy Smilax-covered porch and lovely gardens. The house retains its charming historical features, especially in the six original front rooms. There are heart pine floors, six fireplaces, and spools for cabinet knobs. A darling period-look playhouse adorns the back yard. Owner Jack Humphrey will be your host, along with his children and grandchildren.

Guests will then move on to The Veranda, a local bed-and-breakfast, for a fabulous main course. New owners Rick & Laura Reynolds have recently settled in and put their own personal touch on this 1907 hotel built by C. F. Hollberg Sr. This home was one of the first buildings in Coweta County to have electricity generated by nearby Starr's Mill. It operated as a hotel until 1930, serving many illustrious guests including student/operators of one of the first telegraph schools, cotton barons and movie stars in its colorful past.

The last glorious stop on this culinary journey will be for scrumptious desserts at the recently renovated 1891 home of Tim & Donna King on Morgan Street. The Arnall-King home boasts a wonderful new wing to this historic home, along with a beautiful new kitchen and outdoor pool.

This fabulous evening is offered only once a year with the proceeds to benefit the continued renovation of the SAHS home on Couch Street. The Historical Society plans to repair the chimneys on their historic

headquarters with the profits from this year’s dinner.

Always an evening to remember, this event is one that truly does usher in spring in grand Southern style. If you have been to Senoia’s Progressive Dinner before, you know how much fun they are and will probably want to go again. And if you have never been to this special event, reserve the evening for yourself and a friend. You won’t want to miss it.