A renovated and reimagined Margaret Mitchell House is reopening

The Midtown apartment building where Margaret Mitchell wrote most of "Gone With the Wind" is reopening after a renovation and reimagining of how to present the complex work of historical fiction.

Why it matters: Mitchell's only novel created a mystique and mythos around Atlanta that, despite your feelings about the book, helped put Atlanta into the global consciousness.

Zoom in: The new exhibit, "Telling Stories: Gone With the Wind and American Memory," covers how the writer's life in her native Atlanta shaped her views on history, according to the Atlanta History Center, which owns and operates the museum.

• The museum reopens on July 10.

What they're saying: "On a larger scale," the history center said in a release, "the exhibit examines the impact of the book and its movie adaptation on our culture, including how it has furthered Lost Cause Ideology."

Context: Mitchell shared the ground-level apartment with her husband John Marsh, and she was struck and killed by a motorist while crossing Peachtree Street not far from the building.

• Preservationists saved the building from demolition in the 1980s.

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