List of sites to see help plan sightseeing tours

You can observe a lot just by watching.

-- Yogi Berra

Thank you!

Your Masters Week visitor show-off list is growing.

Now we all can have some more places to show our guests when they arrive in the weeks ahead.

So far, the partial list includes:

- Pendleton King Park with the new hydrangea garden, the camellia garden, new playgrounds and other things for children, say Tom and Kay Mills.

- The Morris Museum, which offers "a varied assortment of art with a lot of emphasis on Augusta and the South," said Lynda Wolfgram, of Harlem.

- Headgates at the Augusta Canal ... "our favorite place in the area," according to Susan Dillard.

- Downtown spots. Lynn Herrmann says, "Whenever family or friends come to visit us here in Evans, my husband and I take them immediately to the River Walk and then to the James Brown statue."

If anyone wants to add to the list, please send me an e-mail at bill.kirby@augustachronicle.com.

LET'S HELP BILL: Longtime Augusta newspaperman, fishing editor and antique bottle expert Bill Baab is doing research on the Hollingsworth Candy Co., aka Fine Products Corp.

He is seeking artifacts and historical knowledge about the company. So if you know anything, please call him at (706) 736-8097 and send him an e-mail -- riverswamper@comcast.net.

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BIRTHDAY BEAT: Kathy McCorkle writes about a recent column: "Thank you for that insight about being born on a holiday that fluctuates.

"I was born on Easter Sunday in 1957. My birthday is on April 21st. I have the other extreme of the Easter birthdays -- the late Easter."

Thanks, Kathy. My April birthday has occasionally ended up on Easter as well. Mostly it's remembered as the same day that Lincoln died, the Titanic sunk and income tax is due. In all, a great day!

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TODAY'S JOKE: During the minister's prayer one Sunday, there was a loud whistle from one of the back pews.

Gary's mother was horrified. She pinched him into silence and after church asked, "Gary, whatever made you do such a thing?"

Gary shrugged and said, "I prayed and asked God to teach me how to whistle, and he just did."