Actress Aubrey Plaza — whose April 16 Kevin premiere public appearance confirmed her first pregnancy, per wide coverage — arrived in Helen, Georgia, Saturday, April 18, approximately 48 hours after the premiere. She has, per four separate downtown eyewitness accounts and the Helen Welcome Center visitor log, requested 'something like the edge of the country without actually being on the edge.' She has been advised that the Edge Of The Civilized World Overlook (a privately named Anna Ruby Falls access point, elevation 2,180 feet) is as close as Helen comes. She has visited. She has returned. She has ordered a dirndl.
A 2.3-pound ferrous-stony meteorite fragment, consistent per preliminary petrographic analysis with the Ohio fireball of March 17, 2026, was recovered by a U.S. Forest Service visitor-center groundskeeper, Edna Boling (47, of Sautee), at 7:43 a.m. Thursday, April 16, from the asphalt of the Anna Ruby Falls Visitor Center parking lot, Space 12, second row. Anna Ruby Falls is 418 miles south-southeast of the Ohio impact corridor. The Forest Service, asked how the fragment reached Space 12, said: 'It was there on Tuesday. It was not there on Monday. We are not, at this time, speculating further.'
By Garrett "Buck" Pendergrass · Apr 18, 2026 · 4 min
Georgia DNR's spring fingerling run for Smith Creek and the lower Anna Ruby Falls Creek corridor put 14,000 rainbow trout in the water between 7:21 and 9:44 a.m. on Tuesday, March 18. The fish were in good condition. The water was 51°F.
By Garrett "Buck" Pendergrass · Mar 19, 2026 · 7 min
A Freedom of Information request to the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest produced three years of Anna Ruby Falls check-in records. After cross-referencing 712,000 entries, we found 847 individuals who have visited the falls 30 or more times each in three years. The most frequent visitor has checked in 412 times. Her name is Doris. No ranger has ever spoken to her.
Anna Ruby Falls — the tandem waterfall pair at the terminus of the Smith Creek hiking trail in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, approximately 4.2 miles northeast of downtown Helen — has, following the seven-day sub-freezing cold snap of January 4 through January 10, 2026, developed a partial ice sheath across approximately 70% of its two falling columns. Curtis Creek (the 153-foot column, on the left from the viewing deck) and York Creek (the 50-foot column, on the right) are both encased in what U.S. Forest Service Ranger Calvin Pope describes as 'translucent blue-white ice, with intermittent flowing channels behind.' The ice formation is the first since January 2015.
By Garrett "Buck" Pendergrass · Jan 13, 2026 · 3 min
