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90 maconmagazine.com | June/July 2025 I'm just overworked." I got off the antidepressants, but he said, "You're not going back there when we come back from Europe." When I left, they had to hire people. The guys like Tony Long Sr., Wes Griffi th, David Thompson, and I think maybe Josh Rogers helped. Oh my God, I loved Josh so much. When I needed help at the theater, Josh was amazing. He would show up and sit me down, because there is a lot of stuff I really didn't quite understand. Museum, theatre… how did you reincarnate again to form an art gallery? I quit and Kirk quit. He retired from the road, and we started traveling a little bit. One of his friends from Baltimore suggested that he take his photography and go to some hippie festivals, you know, jam band festivals. As long as Kirk and I were married, he would show me his photography. That wasn't what he was doing when he was working for the Allman Brothers, but they were his subject matter, for the most part. I didn't even know he had all this. Then he decided to do his book, it's his 40-year photographic memoir of his time spent with the band. After the last one of those festivals we thought, let's do a pop-up gallery. This was in 2015, okay? Downtown Macon was not that exciting. It was starting to be rebuilding. We looked at a bunch of space that was empty downtown and we saw this space. They had laid the fl oors, and that's about it. I think they put the drywall up, and Diana Blair, who owned Blair's Furniture across the street, got here and looked at the space. My idea was, let's have a pop-up gallery and do this for the Christmas holidays. Sell a few books, sell some pictures and call it a day. I just thought we would do this for a few months, and that was 10 years ago. Diana said, "Well, it's not going to be ready for Christmas." But we still love E r f o D T st a o t st e o t B H . P t w n D w i M p a L R M H. C s a D T (p ), D T , D T , D T (d r W P), L T (m i J H i's s). T h e r e ' s a l o t o f t h i n g s t h a t p r o b a b l y w o u l d n ' t h a v e e v o l v e d t h e w a y t h e y h a v e i n M a c o n h a d K i r k a n d I n o t c o m e d o w n h e r e a n d b o u g h t t h a t h o u s e , a n d I ' m p r o u d o f i t ."