Macon Magazine

June/July 2025 | maconmagazine.com 91 Send us your musical memories (at legendary locations like the Big House) for FACES by tagging @maconmagazine on social media. the space, and we decided, let's hang in there. We had a soft opening in January of 2015. Kirk's books were delivered there on big pallets. He did a Kickstarter to raise money for the books. We had teams of people stuffi ng the books into boxes. We shipped them out all over the world. We had live music over there. We had other photographers come and we would exhibit them over there. We, of course, started having First Friday events. Our fi rst lease with her was like, six months long. So here we are, and now we just celebrated 10 years. Like I said, I've had multiple incarnations, the insurance world, the Big House world, being a publisher of a magazine, taking over the theater, and then, you know, starting a gallery. But yes, Macon chose me. Yes, it defi nitely did. But it's really more like I chose Macon, because it was my idea to come down here. It was my money that bought the house. If we hadn't done the Big House, I don't think anybody would have done anything with Capricorn Studios. In the 14 years we lived there, we probably had about 20,000 people come even before it was a museum. We had these archive rooms set up, and people would come in and we never charged admission. We had a little box that says "Lord loves a grateful giver" on it and people could donate if they wanted to give. When we created the museum, then they really started coming. There's a lot of things that probably wouldn't have evolved the way they have in Macon had Kirk and I not come down here and bought that house, and I'm proud of it. Now I've been here for 32 years, and I have watched Macon evolve into something. It became a place I want to live in. L O (w o B y O ), J P y (w o J D P y o G n c), a I s i o t f st e o t B H G 't M – W e H n , A W a M A i t "a r " a t B H , J 1 . A t m, b W e a A w m o t A B r B. T y st e r a 1 d s, w a r a t i fi rst s , a st a t i b a t B H a i t s r t t o g A B r B l a w m s . S t a b g t i st a i t B H . T y p e t i fi rst s a E R M H r i M. G 't M – W e H n , A G 't M – W e H n , A W a M A i t "a G 't M – W e H n , A W a M A i t "a G 't M – W e H n , A r " a t B H , J 1 . W a M A i t "a r " a t B H , J 1 . W a M A i t "a A t m, b W e a r " a t B H , J 1 . A t m, b W e a r " a t B H , J 1 . A w m o t A B r B. T y st e r a 1 d s, w a r a t i B r B. T y st e r a 1 d s, w a r a t i B r B. T y st e r a fi rst s , a st a t i b a 1 d s, w a r a t i fi rst s , a st a t i b a 1 d s, w a r a t i t B H a i t s r fi rst s , a st a t i b a t B H a i t s r fi rst s , a st a t i b a t t o g t B H a i t s r t t o g t B H a i t s r A B r B l a t t o g A B r B l a t t o g w m s . S t a b g t i st a i t B H . w m s . S t a b g t i st a i t B H . w m s . S t a T y p e t i fi rst b g t i st a i t B H . T y p e t i fi rst b g t i st a i t B H . s a E R M H T y p e t i fi rst s a E R M H T y p e t i fi rst r i M.

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