If you don’t already have tickets to Olympic events, you may not find it easy to get them, but try calling 404-744-1996. (If you have a Touch-Tone telephone, punch 1 and then 0 at the start of the recorded message and you will be put through to a live operator.) For accommodations in the Atlanta area during the Games, call 214-851-4010, then punch 2 and 7.

The “Metropolitan Frontiers” exhibition at the Atlanta History Center is on view Monday through Saturday from 10:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. and on Sundays from noon until 5:30 P.M. For a schedule of special events at the history center, call 404-814-4000. To reach Civil War Tours for information about its trips to battlefields, call 770-908-8410. For a list of the many tours available through the Atlanta Preservation Center, call 404-876-2040. And for guided tours of Underground Atlanta, call Atlanta Heritage Row Museum at 404-584-7879.