Taylor Delk — Hollywood Cemetery’s Notable Outlaw Resident
This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on the history and current state of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. In 1904 the notorious Georgia outlaw Taylor Delk was buried…
May 2016
The eventful life of W.A. Peters — Hollywood Cemetery’s unusual sexton
This is the third installment in a series on the history and current state of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. The sexton in a cemetery has an important, but usually routine, job….
Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery in 1897 – Insolvency and Streetcar Disputes
This is the second installment of a series on the history and current state of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. The sky was clear and the temperature pleasant as the crowd gathered…
Hollywood Cemetery’s beginnings
This is the first of a series of articles tracing the history of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. I’ve been fascinated with Hollywood Cemetery for over ten years. It’s a large cemetery…
The day Roosevelt High lost the Girl’s High “G” – 1963
The initials ‘GHS’ looming down from a smokestack at Roosevelt High School might not seem like a very big problem with the passage of time. But for the students at…
The Bagby brothers – elusive bandits of the Chattahoochee
The man sat in the tree by the banks of the river, waiting patiently. He was thin, with wiry arms, well suited to climbing. He was comfortable in the tree,…
The 1952 Atlanta annexations
In 1952 the City of Atlanta tripled in size, annexing areas to the south, west and north. To the west the communities near and along the Chattahoochee River became part…
We all had a fantastic time, except one of us was killed
There is a guideline in journalism: “Don’t bury the lede.” A lede, sometimes spelled “lead”, is the opening of a news story. It’s the part that gets you interested in…
A 1911 automobile adventure and the Sweetwater Park Hotel
I read through historic newspapers regularly, with an emphasis on articles from the River Edges target area of west Atlanta and South Cobb. I stumbled across this mysterious little blurb…
The Relentless Rise of Social Media as a News Platform
If you are my age, and were already old enough to join the AARP when George W. Bush began his first term as president in 2001, you may feel nostalgia…