Expansion at the Blue Willow Inn

No, the title of this post does not refer to the inevitable effect on one's waistline after enjoying a grand buffet meal at the Blue Willow Inn of Social Circle, Georgia. It's about the fact that proprietors Louis and Billie Van Dyke are opening a bakeshop and soda fountain in back of the redoubtable mansion that is said to have been the inspiration for Tara in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. Thanks to Charles Ammons, one of the great Roadfooders of the South, for this information.