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88 maconmagazine.com | June/July 2025 We raised several million dollars in a couple of years. We formed a nonprofi t, the Big House Foundation, and it didn't take long. So the work began again. We had designers come in and fi gure out how to do the displays. We got in-kind contributions from local contractors here in Georgia. Once the house was nearing completion, we tried to decide where we were going to live. Initially, I thought we would leave Macon. Kirk could still work for the Allman Brothers from anywhere in the country. We looked at houses in New Mexico and we actually made an off er. We ended up selling the house to the Big House Foundation. Kirk had all this memorabilia that he owned. It was appraised for several million dollars, and we donated most of that to the house. But I did want the Big House Foundation to literally pay us for the house. The thing in New Mexico kind of fell through, and the Big House Foundation wasn't prepared yet. They hadn't worked through all of the paperwork and everything. In the meantime, I thought, I don't want to be that far away from my son and his family. We started looking in Athens and up in Asheville and Blowing Rock and some other places in the South. Then we had a friend who was thinking about moving up here from Miami. I was driving his wife through Macon to show him some diff erent beautiful neighborhoods and we drove through Shirley Hills, and I saw this darling house with a "For Sale By Owner" sign. I backed up and I wrote down FSBO. com and the number, and I went back and told Kirk, "We have to get into this house right now." We fell in love with this property, and I said, "If we can buy this house, I'll never leave Macon." I'm here forever. This is it. How did you take a turn at the Capitol Theatre? I was working in conjunction with the Big House Foundation, and they ended S D i t k c n o t B H . O o m a- m m r i B B (D a B). T h r i m h a s r a m w b a m! A i t p i J P y, C s K, a D L , l o t b G n c. C. B a I s i i t l r o t B H . C. B H n w a i A m w d a m r m o d s mst f a g t m . H w o fi rst v o t B H g a e w m i i Ast 1 . H b A u R U i J H i (n l g a p e r W P) a O B d (b p e r t A B r a n r D a C.). H w a c o D T f t m D w 1 y o, a w D 's bst f e u l t d B d. H w o o o bst f e a v e u o e a p e i M f .