Saturday, May 31, 2008

BIG NEWS in "Small but Special" RUTLEDGE GEORGIA!!

BIG NEWS IN RUTLEDGE GEORGIA!!
BIG NEWS IN RUTLEDGE! BIG happenings in "Small but Special" Rutledge! AOL has added not one but TWO Rutledge attractions to the travel page of their website!! During National Tourism Week May 10 - 18, 2008 AOL launched a national campaign to find the most unique places to visit in the US. TWO Rutledge businesses were chosen and featured in picture and story on AOL travel's website out of the many that were nominated from across the nation. Rutledge Hardware was chosen as one of 11 unique museums to see in the nation and Yesterday's Cafe was picked as one of 19 restaurants. The page will stay up indefinately on AOL travel and can be viewed here: Enter the web address below for AOL's UNIQUE MUSEUMS to find RUTLEDGE HARDWARE look for number 9 out of the 11 unique museums featured there. http://information.travel.aol.com/tourism-week/museums This link will remain up indefinately and if you click on the picture catagory of Specialty Food below the story on the hardware store, you will find Yesterday's Cafe as number 17 out of 19 restaurants featured there at this web address: http://information.travel.aol.com/tourism-week/food
America is knocking on our door. This AOL promotion comes on the tail of our visit last November by none other than GOOD MORNING AMERICA. On Monday November 19th, 2007 Good Morning America came a'calling. I had nominated our own Yesterdays Cafe in GMA Weekend's Best Bite Challenge national contest looking for the best small town restaurant in America. We were filmed on location and the segment aired on Saturday morning November 24th where we were in the final four in the nation. Yesterday's did not win but came in a very close second to 12 Bones Rib House in the much larger town of Asheville, NC. ABC said the online voting went on until midnight with our two restaurants neck and neck right up until the very end. This was quite a feat for a little restaurant in a tiny town of 702 folks! Here is the address of the online video from that event: http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=best%20bites%20challenge&type=